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8th gr HistCh 17-18
8th grade History Ch 17 - 18 Test Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What term means used to stop a strike? | injunction |
| What terms refers to a business owned by two or more people? | partnerships |
| What term refers to a super-size corporation of combined businesses? | trust |
| What terms refers to the focus on money and possessions? | materialism |
| What term refers to a one-owner business? | prietorships |
| What was built in the 1860s by Irish workers and war veterans? | Union Pacific |
| What was a group of local unions composed of skilled laborers called | American Federation of Labor |
| What was the transcontinental line built near the Canadian border? | Great Northern Railroad |
| What was the older union open to all workers known as? | Collective bargaining |
| What was built eastward across the Sierra Nevada range? | Union Pacific and Central Pacific |
| The first transcontinental railroad linked the Union Pacific line with which other line? | Central Pacific |
| What did the Interstate Commerce Act do? | Not bring many railroads to conviction |
| What was James J. Hill associated with? | Atchion Topeka, Santa Fe railroads |
| How did many immigrants enter the United States? | Ellis Island |
| What term refers to a business consolidation that buys stock to control several separate businesses in an industry and them makes decisions in the interest of the entire group? | Holding company |
| Laissez-faire policies are closely associated with what? | Capitalism |
| The Exclusion Act of 1882 was passed because of the large influx of immigrants from what country? | China |
| What was one right that labor unions were eager to acquire? | collective bargaining |
| What are the conditions of pure capitalism? | not government regulates to protect consumers |
| The first transcontinental railroad was completed when the last spike was driven in the line in which city? | Promintary Point, Utah |
| What was the name of Nevada silver and gold mine | Combstock load |
| What gave 160 acres of land to settlers? | Homestead Act |
| What terms refers to young cowboys? | ranglers |
| What was Oliver H. Kelley's famesr' organization? | Grange |
| What gave land to individual Indians for self-support? | Dawes Act |
| What term refers to people under the care and protection of others? | wards |
| What required the government to buy silver? | Bland-Allison Act |
| What term refers to Oklahoma land grabbers? (hint: mascot of OU) | Sooners |
| What was the source of gold in the Black Hills? | Home Stakemine |
| What were areas set aside for Indians called? | reservation |
| Abandoned mining towns int he West were often called what? | Ghost towns |
| Who invented the first practical barbed wire | Joseph Glidden |
| By what name was Oklahoma known before it was opened to settlement? | Indian Territory |
| Who was the lieutenant colonel in the U.S. cavalry who was killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn? | Custard, George Armstrong |
| What three groups of Americans "conquered" the frontier? | Miners, cattlemen, farmers |
| What postal innovation brought mail to the remote farmers of the West? | Rural free delivery |
| What man, who had sold meat to the Union armies during the Civil War, built a large and efficient meatpacking plant in Chicago? | Phillip Armor |
| What invention helped the prairie farmers pump their water from a well? | windmill |
| What did westerners what the government to use to back its money supply? | silver |
| Who was the Sioux medicine man who inspired the Indian attack at Little Big Horn? | Sitting Bull |
| Who were the famous outlaws of the West? | Billy the Kid, Black Bart, Jesse James |
| What men furthered industries that aided the development of the West? | Not Custard |
| What were the characteristic of the Great Plains of the American West? | Not covered with Forests |
| What were America's policies toward the Indians in the late 1800s? | Not encouraging them to join the Grange |
| With what groups did the cattlemen have conflicts with? | Not miners |
| What trails did cowboys on cattle drives follow? | Not homestead trail, Chisholm Trail, Goodnight-Loving Trail, Sidelia Trail |
| The lack of trees on the western prairies affected what things used by the homesteaders? | Fuel, fencing, house construction, not dry farming techniques |
| What people were involved on a cattle drive? | Pointman, Trail boss, Rangler, Not Ward |
| What problems were likely to cause trouble on the cattle drives? | Not lack of forest |
| What famous Indians were involved in the Battle of Little Big Horn? | Not Chief Joseph |
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