Western Expansion/ Industrial Revolution

Question 1

transcontinental railroad

Answer 1

rail line that spans the continent

Question 2

cattle ranching

Answer 2

The herding and moving of cattle over long distances

Question 3

exodusters

Answer 3

African American settlers on the plains

Question 4

homesteading

Answer 4

acquiring free land provided by the government

Question 5

Government support for railroads

Answer 5

Government gave generous land grants and subsidies

Question 6

native Americans, particularly people of the planes

Answer 6

forced off land

Question 7

corporations

Answer 7

Business owned by many investors

Question 8

industrial revolution

Answer 8

gradual replacement of many hand tools by machines

Question 9

assembly-line

Answer 9

manufacturing method in which a product is put together as it moves along a conveyor belt

Question 10

monopolies

Answer 10

Company that controls all or nearly all business in a particular industry

Question 11

trust

Answer 11

Group of corporations run by a single board of directors

Question 12

growth of cities

Answer 12

cities grew with the industrial revolution

Question 13

tenements

Answer 13

buildings divided into many tiny apartments

Question 14

Poor working conditions

Answer 14

working conditions were terrible and unsafe

Question 15

Child labor

Answer 15

children worked to support their families

Question 16

inventions

Answer 16

Products created by inventors

Question 17

unions

Answer 17

an organized association of workers

Question 18

collective-bargaining

Answer 18

negotiation between company and the union about wages, benefits, and working conditions

Question 19

immigration

Answer 19

to move into a foreign region or country

Question 20

assimilation

Answer 20

process of becoming part of another culture

Question 21

public education

Answer 21

Schools all children could go to