Question 1.
Which of the following occurred after the Civil War?
Plantation owners lost their free labor.
Southern infrastructure was left intact.
Plantations were given to the freed African-Americans.
none of the above
Question 2.
Which of the following is a term given to farmers who rented land to farm?
tenant farmer
sharecropper
carpetbagger
both tenant and sharecropper
Question 3.
The Freedman's Bureau was established by
the federal government.
state governments.
charity organizations.
churches.
Question 4.
What political party attracted southerners after the Civil War?
The Republicans
The Whigs
The Democrats
The Independents
Question 5.
The Republicans nominated ________ to run for President in 1876.
Rutherford Hayes
Samuel Tilden
Ulysses Grant
Abraham Lincoln
Question 6.
The Transcontinental Railroad track that was built by Thomas Durant's company and the track that was built by Leland Stanford's company met in
Abilene, Kansas.
Promontory Point, Utah.
San Francisco, California.
Denver, Colorado.
Question 7.
Under which act did settlers have to irrigate their land?
The Timber Culture Act
The Morrill Land Grant Act
The Desert Land Act
The Homestead Act
Question 8.
A common use for sod by settlers in the Great Plains was to
build houses.
burn for fuel.
plant cotton.
none of the above
Question 9.
Select statement below that is true.
White men wanted to live in peace with the Native Americans.
White men kept moving the Native Americans farther west when they wanted the territory.
White men began to practice Native American customs.
The federal government wanted Native Americans to assimilate by quickly giving them full ownership of land.
Question 10.
Who built the Union Pacific track of the Transcontinental Railroad?
Leland Stanford
Thomas Durant
Cornelius Vanderbilt
John D. Rockefeller
Question 11.
Mass production was facilitated by
the railroad.
factorization.
better dies.
all of the above
Question 12.
By 1900, about how many women and children worked in factories?
1,000,000
2,000,000
7,000,000
5,000,000
Question 13.
Which of the following did Alexander Graham Bell invent?
Carbon filament
Telephone
Electric typewriter
Motion picture
Question 14.
In which type of system does supply and demand control price?
Merchant economic system
Command economic system
Free market economic system
All of the above
Question 15.
______ improved light bulb filaments.
Thomas Alva Edison
Lewis Latimer
Alexander Graham Bell
Orville Wight
Question 16.
Whose first business was a ferry service?
Henry Frick
Cornelius Vanderbilt
John Morgan
Andrew Carnegie
Question 17.
Standard Oil is an example of
horizontal integration.
vertical integration.
economies of scale.
cartels.
Question 18.
To inflate the value of the dollar,
limit industry.
place more money in circulation.
take money out of circulation.
close banks.
Question 19.
Which industry gained about 1,000,000 dollars during the period between 1880 and 1890?
Agriculture, fisheries, and mining
Trade and transportation
Manufacturing and mechanical
Professional service
Question 20.
This legislation called for the creation of civil service tests.
The Pendleton Civil Service Act
The Civil Service Commission
The Spoils Act
None of the above
Question 21.
_________ control(s) production in a Capitalistic economy.
Supply and demand
Workers
Government
Competitors
Question 22.
Laborers earned _______ cents per hour in 1900.
32
10
22
29
Question 23.
This labor union popularized collective bargaining.
The Industrial Workers of the World
The Knights of Labor
The American Federation of Labor
None of the above
Question 24.
This railroad strike disrupted mail delivery.
The Pullman
The Pinkerton
The Homestead
The Haymarket
Question 25.
He founded the Industrial Workers of the World.
Terence Powderly
Samuel Gompers
Eugene Debs
George Pullman.