Test Questions

Question 1

Who developed the frontier thesis in an attempt to explain westward expansion into American History?

Answer 1

Frederick Jackson Turner

Question 2

The railroad company that had the job of building eastward from California?

Answer 2

Central Pacific

Question 3

Most popular sport in America during the 19th century?

Answer 3

Baseball

Question 4

For which tribe do you associate Geronimo?

Answer 4

Apache

Question 5

What was the countries first regulatory agency?

Answer 5

The Interstate Commerce Commission

Question 6

Who helped establish General Electric?

Answer 6

Thomas Edison

Question 7

Whose work helped derive synthetic products from soybeans and legumes and saved agriculture in the south?

Answer 7

George Washington Carver

Question 8

What law is considered most responsible for encouraging westward expansion by offering land for a very little if at all amount of money?

Answer 8

The Homestead Act

Question 9

Who established Standard Oil?

Answer 9

John D. Rockefeller

Question 10

Who popularized the ghost dance?

Answer 10

Wovoka

Question 11

Who founded the American Federation of Labors?

Answer 11

Samuel Gompers

Question 12

Which of these presidents was assassinated while in office?

Answer 12

Garfield

Question 13

What book possibly attempted to highlight the populist movement and monetary profits of the farmers?

Answer 13

The Wizard of Oz

Question 14

Who invented Barbed Wire?

Answer 14

Joseph Glidden

Question 15

What law attempted to end the spoils system awarding government jobs by merit?

Answer 15

The Pendleton Civil Service Act

Question 16

Where was George Armstrong Custer killed?

Answer 16

Little Big Horn

Question 17

Did industrialization promote the western passage of settlers?

Answer 17

NO

Question 18

Who was the prominent American Socialist that was involved in some of the labor unrest in the 1890’s?

Answer 18

Eugene Debs

Question 19

Did Drake help promote the Granger laws?

Answer 19

NO

Question 20

Which of the following do you associate with settlement houses?

Answer 20

Jane Addams

Question 21

Which of the following was not a fact in economic success in the late 19th century?

Answer 21

Government Regulations

Question 22

Who won the support from the populist and the democrats for his views on his three points of a sword?

Answer 22

William Jennings Bryan

Question 23

What year did the US census bureau claim there was no longer a discernible frontier line?

Answer 23

1890

Question 24

Which of the following would associate with the efforts of trying to improve nutrition?

Answer 24

Charles W. Post

Question 25

Who opened an inventive factory in Menlo Park Jew Jersey that became the first modern research lab facility?

Answer 25

Thomas Edison

Question 26

Wounded Knee was a huge victory for the Sioux?

Answer 26

False

Question 27

The passage of the Morill act resulted in the establishment of time zones across the United States?

Answer 27

False

Question 28

The first transcontinental railroad was completed is Utah?

Answer 28

True

Question 29

The first grocery store in America was the great A and P Tea Company?

Answer 29

True

Question 30

The new immigration brought immigrants predominately from western Europe?

Answer 30

False

Question 31

James J. Hill invented sod houses for farmers on the plains?

Answer 31

False

Question 32

The Carlisle school was a school for Indians who were willing to abandon the Indian way of life?

Answer 32

True

Question 33

Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1890?

Answer 33

False

Question 34

Richard W. Sears pioneered the mail order catalog business?

Answer 34

True

Question 35

Henry Ford pioneered the assembly line?

Answer 35

True

Question 36

Plessy v. Ferguson resulted in more freedom for the Indians?

Answer 36

False

Question 37

Railroads received some of the largest government subsidies to ever exist?

Answer 37

True

Question 38

Yellow journalism became to refer to sensationalism in the media?

Answer 38

True

Question 39

Though many Indians fought the building of railroads, they supported the building of the Bozeman trail?

Answer 39

False

Question 40

Grover Cleveland was the first democratic president since before the Civil War?

Answer 40

True