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Abeka U.S. History 8
16: The Gilded Age
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Old immigrants came from these countries before the 1880's | northwestern Europe: British Isles, Germany, Scandinavian countries |
| New immigrants came from these countries after 1880's | southern and eastern Europe: Russia, Poland, Austria-Hungary, the Balkans, Italy, Greece |
| Where did D.L. Moody center his ministry and found Moody Bible Institute? | Chicago |
| Who was D.L. Moody's song leader? | Ira Sankey |
| Founded the Pacific Garden Mission, or "The Old Lighthouse" | Mel Trotter |
| Founded a settlement house known as "Hull House" | Jane Addams |
| Took the gospel to Alaska and set up a public school system there | Sheldon Jackson |
| Train robber killed by his own men | Jesse James |
| Wyatt Earp fought the Battle of the O.K.Corral here | Tombstone, AZ |
| Leader of the Sioux Indians who fought at Little Bighorn | Chief Crazy Horse |
| American who died with all of his men at the battle of Little Bighorn | General George Custer |
| Leader of the Apache tribe who surrendered | Geronimo |
| Offered land and citizenship to any head of an Indian family who would take up farming or ranching | Dawes Act |
| Act that opened the Great Plains for settlement | Homestead Act of 1862 |
| Came up with the idea of spinning strands into barbed wire | Joseph Glidden |
| Gold was discovered in this state in 1858 | Colorado |
| This mine in Nevada proved to be one of the richest silver mines in the West | Comstock Lode |
| Influenced state legislatures to pass laws regulating railroad freight rates | the Grange |
| Paper money issued during the Civil War | greenbacks |
| Dedicated to maintaining and increasing the number of greenbacks in circulation, to cause inflation | Greenback Labor party |
| President shot after only four months in office by someone who thought he should have gotten a political job from the spoils system | James Garfield |
| Became president when James Garfield was killed | Chester Arthur |
| First democrat to win the presidency after the civil war | Grover Cleveland |
| Organized the first successful national labor union, the American Federation of Labor; opposed socialism and anarchy | Samuel Gompers |
| Union demonstration where someone threw a bomb and killed many people in 1886 in Chicago | Haymarket Square |
| Regulated shipping rates charged by the railroads and set up the ICC | Interstate Commerce Act |
| Political party that opposed the gold standard and called for the free coinage of silver | Populist party |
| Provided for the purchase and coinage of a limited amount of silver each month | Bland-Allison Act and Sherman Silver Purchase Act |
| Its passage in 1890 led to the breakup of large companies | Sherman Antitrust Act |
| Strike in 1892 at Carnegie Silver Mill where several men where killed | Homestead Strike |
| The only president to serve two non-consecutive terms | Grover Cleveland |
| President Cleveland sent troops to break up this strike because it threatened to stop the US mail by shutting down the railroad lines | Pullman Strike of 1894 |
| In 1896 the Supreme Court declared that racial segregation was legal in the US in this case; "separate but equal" | Plessy v. Ferguson |
| These Indians fought to keep the Black Hills because they were considered a sacred resting place of their gods | Sioux Indians |
| Legislated the Pendleton Civil Service Act | Chester Arthur |
| His death led to the Pendleton Civil Service Act | James Garfield |
| Elected president in 1896, he favored a gold standard | William McKinley |
| Provided for examinations for political office seekers | Pendleton Act |
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