The American West and The Gilded Age

Question 0

Year

First Transcontinental Railroad

Answer 0

1863

Question 1

Year

Homestead Act

Answer 1

1862

Question 2

Year

Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer 2

1882

Question 3

Year

Benz-Velo (first automobile)

Answer 3

1885

Question 4

Year

Haymarket Riot

Answer 4

1886

Question 5

Year

Dawes Act

Answer 5

1887

Question 6

Year

Wounded Knee Massacre

Answer 6

1890

Question 7

Sherman Antitrust Act

Answer 7

1890

Question 8

Year

Pullman Strike

Answer 8

1894

Question 9

Years in Era

Gilded Age

Answer 9

1860’s (1877)-1898

Question 10

Where did term “Gilded Age” originate

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Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in book “The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today”(1873)

Question 11

Term gilded refers to?

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The gilding of s cheap metal with a thin layer of gold

Question 12

Critic complains of gilded age

Answer 12

Era naked by ostentatious display, crass manners, political corruption, and shady ethics

Question 13

Define

Era

Answer 13

Not time specific

Named after what was predominately going on during a span of time

Question 14

Define

Event

Answer 14

Have specific dates

Question 15

Connect words with civil

Answer 15

Civil-social-people

Question 16

Connect words

Market

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Market-business

Question 17

Connect words

Machine

Answer 17

Machine-organization

Question 18

Connect words

Trust

Answer 18

Trust-monopoly

Question 19

Define

Political machine

Answer 19

An organization designed to create political offices to promote a specific business

Question 20

Define

Labor union

Answer 20

Organized workers who try to set up better business practices, work conditions, and wages

Question 21

Define

Strike

Answer 21

A worker’s protest

Question 22

Define

Antitrust act

Answer 22

Government regulation of business

Question 23

What is the “Gospel of Wealth”

Answer 23

An article written by Andrew Carnegie in 1889 that describes the responsibility of philanthropy by the new upper class of self-made rich

Question 24

Wrote "The Gospel of Wealth"

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Andrew Carnegie

Question 25

Date | Wounded Knee Massacre

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December 29, 1890

Question 26

Where did it occur? | Wounded Knee Massacre

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Near "Wounded Knee Creek" on the "Lakota Pine Ridge Indian reservation in SOUTH DAKOTA"

Question 27

What exactly was it? | Wounded Knee Massacre

Answer 27

Killing of Elk's "Lakota tribe" with "Hotchkiss Guns"(cannons)

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Who am I? | Sponsored Dawes act

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Henry L. Dawes | Senator of Massachusetts

Question 29

Three policies of | America's Indian policy

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1. Indian removal act 2. Reservations 3. Destruction of buffalo herds

Question 30

Federal policy that broke up reservation lands into smaller individual plots of land that were to be assigned to American Indians on an individual basis

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Dawes act

Question 31

What was intended with | Dawes act

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To "assimilate American Indians" by making them self-sufficient through individual land ownership

Question 32

Provided that the government would purchase Indian land "excess" to that needed for allotment and open it up for settlement by non-Indians

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Dawes act

Question 33

How much land did native Americans lose due to Dawes act

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90 million acres

Question 34

About how many Indians were made landless due to Dawes act

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90,000

Question 35

What in the Dawes act ended hunting as a means of subsistence for native Americans

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Allotment policy

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What found that Dawes act had been used to illegally deprive native Americans of their land rights?

Answer 36

A Calvin Coolidge Administration study

Question 37

What year was the Calvin Coolidge Administration study that found the illegality in the Dawes act completed

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1928

Question 38

Developed the assembly line

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Ford Motor Company

Question 39

First to master the moving assembly line

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Henry Ford

Question 40

Had great ramifications of mass production Affordable Introduced high wages for Ford workers

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Ford Model T

Question 41

Years in which modern assembly line was developed

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Between 1908 and 1915

Question 42

What were the effects of the automobile

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- Affected standard of living in the United States - Increased mobility - Created jobs

Question 43

What was the first modern automobile

Answer 43

Benz-Velo (1885)

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Who invented the first modern automobile

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Karl Benz

Question 45

What did electricity effect

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- Economy | - Manufacturing

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According to most experts what was the most important discovery made at the turn of the 20th century

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Electricity

Question 47

Led enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century

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Andrew Carnegie

Question 48

What major companies were merged to make U.S. Steel

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- Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel | - Elbert H. Gary's Federal Steel Company

Question 49

Define | Philanthropist

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Person who takes private initiatives for public good, focusing on quality of life

Question 50

Andrew Carnegie facts

Answer 50

Philanthropist | Built Carnegie hall

Question 51

Motivating factor that brought many immigrants to the United States

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The American Dream

Question 52

James Truslow Adams "American Dream" 1931 definition

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"Life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement"

Question 53

Conflict between the new American Railway Union (ARU) and railroad other railroad companies

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Pullman strike

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Shut down much of the nation's freight and passenger traffic west of Detroit

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Pullman strike

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Nearly 4,000 employees strike in response to recent reductions in wages for railway workers

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Pullman strike

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Founded the ARU

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Eugene V. Debs

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ARU

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Organization of unskilled railroad workers

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Effects of Pullman strike

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- $80 million in damages - 30 people killed - Debs was sent to prison

Question 59

Connect words with | Labor

Answer 59

Labor-workers

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Top leader of Pullman strike

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Eugene V. Debs

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Who wrote the Sherman antitrust act

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John Sherman

Question 62

First federal statue to limit cartels and monopolies

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Sherman Antitrust act

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Who actually enacted the Sherman antitrust act

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Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909

Question 64

Where was the Haymarket Riot

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Chicago Illinois

Question 65

Where did Pullman Strike happen

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Pullman, Illinois

Question 66

Labor demonstration that began as a peaceful rally in support of workers striking for an eight hour day witch turned violent

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Haymarket riot

Question 67

First example of strike with violence

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Haymarket riot

Question 68

Effects of Haymarket riot

Answer 68

Death of seven police dead at least four civilians dead others wounded