Modules 11 And 12

Question 1

Great Plains

Answer 1

The grassland region of the United States

Question 2

Treaty of Fort Laramie

Answer 2

1868 treaty in which the Sioux agreed to live on a reservation

Question 3

Sitting Bull

Answer 3

Leader of Hunkpapa Sioux

Question 4

George A. Cluster

Answer 4

Colonel in U.S. Cavalry

Question 5

Assimilation

Answer 5

Name of plan to make Native Americans part of the white culture

Question 6

Dawes Act

Answer 6

Law that broke up Native American reservations

Question 7

Battle of Wounded Knee

Answer 7

U.S. massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota

Question 8

Oliver Hudson Kelley

Answer 8

Farmer who founded the Grange

Question 9

Grange

Answer 9

Organization that fought for farmers rights

Question 10

Farmer’s Alliances

Answer 10

Group of farm organizations

Question 11

Populism

Answer 11

Political movement that sought advancements for farmers and laborers

Question 12

Bimetallism

Answer 12

Backing money with silver and gold

Question 13

Gold standard

Answer 13

Backing dollars solely with gold

Question 14

William McKinley

Answer 14

1896 Republican presidential nominee

Question 15

William Jennings Bryan

Answer 15

1896 populist/democratic presidential nominee

Question 16

Edwin L. Drake

Answer 16

First person to use steam engine to drill for oil

Question 17

Bessemer process

Answer 17

Technique used to make steel from iron

Question 18

Thomas Alva Edison

Answer 18

Inventor of the light bulb

Question 19

Lewis H. Latimer

Answer 19

African American inventor of the carbon filament

Question 20

Christopher Sholes

Answer 20

Inventor of the typewriter

Question 21

Alexander Graham Bell

Answer 21

Inventor of the telephone

Question 22

Transcontinental Railroad

Answer 22

A railroad that crosses the entire country

Question 23

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Answer 23

Major figure in the expansion of the regional railroads

Question 24

George M. Pullman

Answer 24

Inventor of the sleeping car

Question 25

Credit Monilier

Answer 25

Name of compact involved in stealing of railroad money

Question 26

Munn vs. Illinois

Answer 26

Court case that gave goverment right to regulate private industry

Question 27

Interstate Commerce Act

Answer 27

Law granting Congress authority to regulate railroad activities

Question 28

Laissez-faire

Answer 28

Capitalism that allows companies to conduct business without goverment intervention

Question 29

Social Darwinism

Answer 29

Theory that taught only strong survived

Question 30

Andrew Carnegie

Answer 30

Scottish immigrant who became a giant in the steel industry

Question 31

Vertical Intergration

Answer 31

Process in which a company buys out its suppliers

Question 32

Horizontal Intergration

Answer 32

Process in which companies producing similar products merge

Question 33

J.P. Morgan

Answer 33

Banker who made his money by taking over and merging other businesses

Question 34

John D. Rockefeller

Answer 34

Head of the standard Oil company

Question 35

Trust

Answer 35

Group of businesses owned by competing companies that is controlled by a single group of trusties.

Question 36

Monopoly

Answer 36

Complete control over an industry’s production, wages, and prices

Question 37

Sherman Antitrust Act

Answer 37

Made it illegal to form a trust that interfaced with free trade

Question 38

Collective bargaining

Answer 38

Negotiations between labor management to in higher wages and shorter workweeks

Question 39

Samuel Gompers

Answer 39

Union leader

Question 40

American Federalization of Labor (AFL)

Answer 40

Name of union led by Gompers

Question 41

Eugene V. Debs

Answer 41

Leader of the American Railway Union, and industrialization union

Question 42

Industrial Workers of the Eorld (IWW)

Answer 42

Union of radicals and socialist nicknamed the Wobblies

Question 43

Mary Harris Jones

Answer 43

Organizer for United Mine Workers