Lesson 13-14

Question 1

The economic system where assets are privately owned rather than government controlled

Answer 1

Capitalism

Question 2

What invention by Samuel Morse revolutionized long-distance communication

Answer 2

Telegraph

Question 3

What American inventor was responsible for the creation of the telephone?

Answer 3

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 4

How did financial backers protect their investments in inventions?

Answer 4

They encouraged inventors to acquire patents

Question 5

What natural resource took on a rapidly growing role in the industrial age?

Answer 5

Oil

Question 6

a company thag completley dominates a particular industry

Answer 6

monopoly

Question 7

How did John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil grow to become a monopoly?

Answer 7

It expanded by buying out and merging with other companies.

Question 8

How did John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil grow to become a monopoly?

Answer 8

joining together as many firms from the same industry as possible

Question 9

Which of the following best describes the process of vertical integration?

Answer 9

taking control of each step in product production and distribution

Question 10

Why did the Sherman Antitrust Act initially fail to reduce the influence of big businesses?

Answer 10

Vague language led to weak government enforcement.

Question 11

Why were the late-1800s often referred to as the Gilded Age?

Answer 11

Some industrialists grew wealthy despite a great deal of political unrest.

Question 12

What happened in California in 1848 that resulted in a population boom for the territory?

Answer 12

discovery of gold in rivers

Question 13

What served as a valuable resource for Great Plains ranchers?

Answer 13

Grass

Question 14

The “Big Four” sought government support to construct what?

Answer 14

Transcontinental railroad

Question 15

Those who persuade legislators to pass laws favorable to the groups they represent are?

Answer 15

Lobbyist

Question 16

What group made up the majority of the Central Pacific’s workforce?

Answer 16

Chinese immigrants

Question 17

Why did many consumers ask for government control over railroad companies?

Answer 17

Railroads charged excessive rates to those reliant on them for supplies.

Question 18

What do some historians say Indigenous people believed about land rights?

Answer 18

They believed that land could not be bought, owned or sold.

Question 19

What did the federal government do hoping to end conflict between Indigenous people and colonists?

Answer 19

It confined most western tribes to reservations

Question 20

What event led to the hunting down of Lakota (Sioux) warriors by federal troops?

Answer 20

Battle of the Little Bighorn

Question 21

What did the Homestead Act offer American colonists in the west?

Answer 21

land to work and live on

Question 22

What political ideology arose from discontented western farmers?

Answer 22

Populism

Question 23

example of a “Granger law”?

Answer 23

Interstate Commerce Act

Question 24

Those who advocated inflationary monetary policy became known as

Answer 24

Silverites

Question 25

Government control of the supply and value of a country's currency is called

Answer 25

Monetary policy

Question 26

What was the traditional monetary policy maligned by populist politicians?

Answer 26

Gold standard

Question 27

Which presidential candidate declared, "You shall not crucify mankind on a cross of gold"?

Answer 27

William Jennings Bryan

Question 28

the absorption of people into the dominant culture

Answer 28

Assimilation

Question 29

the cattle-drive trail from San Antonio, Texas, to Abilene, Kansas

Answer 29

Chisholm Trail

Question 30

an 1887 federal law distributing land to Indigenous individuals rather than to tribes, thereby encouraging Indigenous people to become assimilated

Answer 30

Dawes act

Question 31

African Americans who migrated from the South to the Great Plains following the Civil War

Answer 31

Exodusters

Question 32

an 1862 federal law that granted tracts of land called homesteads to western settlers who agreed to work the land and live on it for five years

Answer 32

Homestead act

Question 33

a monetary policy requiring that every paper dollar in circulation be backed by a dollar's worth of gold in the U.S. Treasury

Answer 33

Gold standard

Question 34

a person who tries to persuade legislators to pass laws favorable to a particular group

Answer 34

Lobbyist

Question 35

a political philosophy that favors the common person's interests over those of wealthy people or business interests

Answer 35

Populism

Question 36

government policy aimed at controlling the supply and value of a country’s currency

Answer 36

monetary policy

Question 37

political party founded in 1892 calling for policies to help working people, such as government ownership of railroads and coinage of silver

Answer 37

Populist Party

Question 38

any financial asset-including money, machines, and buildings-used in production

Answer 38

Capital

Question 39

an economic system in which factories, equipment, and other means of production are privately owned rather than controlled by government

Answer 39

Capitalism

Question 40

a company recognized by law to exist independently from its owners, with the ability to own property, borrow money, sue, or be sued

Answer 40

Corporations

Question 41

an 1890 federal law that outlawed trusts, monopolies, and other forms of business that restricted trade

Answer 41

Sherman Antitrust Act

Question 42

What is horizontal and who uses it?

Answer 42

John D rockerfeller and he was the most powerful in the oil industry

Question 43

What is vertical and who uses it

Answer 43

Carnegie because he bought all the steps out