Vocab

Question 0

Patent

Answer 0

Document giving inventors sole rights to make and sell their products

Question 1

Petroleum

Answer 1

Oily flammable liquid used in making kerosene

Question 2

Business Cycle

Answer 2

Patterns of good and bad economic times

Question 3

Bessemer steel process

Answer 3

Technique that produced steel more cheaply

Question 4

Generator

Answer 4

Machine that produced electric current

Question 5

Thomas Edison

Answer 5

Inventor who developed a practical lightbulb and found the most ways to use electricity

Question 6

Alexander Graham Bell

Answer 6

Inventor who developed the first telephone

Question 7

Centennial Exhibition

Answer 7

A public fair celebrating America’s hundredth birthday

Question 8

Transcontinental Railroad

Answer 8

A railroad that spanned the entire continent

Question 9

Standard time

Answer 9

System that divided the country to four time zones

Question 10

Robber Baron

Answer 10

Business person who became wealthy through dishonest methods

Question 11

Corporation

Answer 11

Business owned by investors who bought stock in the company

Question 12

John D. Rockefeller

Answer 12

Leader of the oil industry

Question 13

Andrew Carnegie

Answer 13

Leader of the steel industry

Question 14

Monopoly

Answer 14

Company that has sole control of industry

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Trust

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A legal body created to hold stock in many companies

Question 16

Philanthropist

Answer 16

A person who gives away large sums of money to charities

Question 17

Gilded Age

Answer 17

Term used to describe a time of both show tremendous wealth and poverty in the late 1800s

Question 18

Sweatshop

Answer 18

Place where workers labored long hours for little pay

Question 19

Knights of labor

Answer 19

Prominent workers union

Question 20

Socialism

Answer 20

Economic system in which all members of society are equal owners of all businesses

Question 21

Haymarket affair

Answer 21

A conflict between police and union members in Chicago in May 1886

Question 22

Pullman strike

Answer 22

1894 strike that spread throughout the rail industry

Question 23

Eugene V Debs

Answer 23

American Railway Union Pres.

Question 24

Samuel Gompers

Answer 24

US labor leader

Question 25

American Federation of labor

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National organization of union that Gompers helped to found

Question 26

Frontier

Answer 26

The sparsely settled area in the west

Question 27

Great Plains

Answer 27

Area from Missouri River to Rocky Mountains

Question 28

Boomtown

Answer 28

Town that experiences economic or population boom

Question 29

Long drive

Answer 29

Cattle drive to Cow towns

Question 30

Vaquero

Answer 30

One of the early cowhands who came to the southwest from Mexico

Question 31

Vigilante

Answer 31

Citizen who took the law into his or her hands

Question 32

Reservation

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Land set aside for Native American tribes

Question 33

Sand Creek massacre

Answer 33

A deadly attack on a peaceful Cheyenne village by Colorado militia

Question 34

Sitting bull

Answer 34

Sioux Cheif

Question 35

George A Custer

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US cavalry commander

Question 36

Battle of the Little Big Horn

Answer 36

Famous battle between US troops and Native Americans

Question 37

Wounded knee massacre

Answer 37

Mass killing of Native Americans by US troops

Question 38

Dawns Act

Answer 38

Plan to give Native Americans land to farm

Question 39

Homestead

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A piece of land and the house on it

Question 40

Mexicano

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Spanish-speaking Southwestener

Question 41

William Buffalo Bill Cody

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Buffalo hunter who promoted life in the west

Question 42

Buffalo soldier

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Name given to an African-American serving in the US Army in the west

Question 43

Homestead act

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Law that offered land to anyone who agreed to settle it

Question 44

Exoduster

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An African-American who migrated to the west

Question 45

Sodbuster

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A farmer on the Great Plains

Question 46

Grange

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Group that helped farmers

Question 47

Cooperative

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Farm organization owned and run by its members

Question 48

Populist party

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National political party formed by farm groups

Question 49

Gold standard

Answer 49

System in which government backed every dollar with a certain amount of gold

Question 50

William Jennings Bryan

Answer 50

Presidential candidates supported by populist and Democrats