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History II Midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| During the Gilded Age, most of the railroad barons _____ | Built railroads with government assistance |
| The national government helped to finance the transcontinental railroad construction in the late 19th century by providing railroad corporations with ___ | Land grants |
| Hills railroad company | Great northern |
| Vanderbilt railroad company | NYC |
| Stanford railroad company | Central Pacific |
| One byproduct of the development of railroads was | The movement of people to cities |
| Carnegies field of enterprise | Steel |
| Rockefellers field of enterprise | Oil |
| Morgans field of enterprise | Banking |
| Dukes field of enterprise | Tobacco |
| Steel industry owed much to the inventive genius of | Bessemer |
| Americas first billion dollar corporation was | USS Corp |
| The first major product of the oil industry was | Kerosene |
| The Gospel of wealth which associated godliness with riches | Moral responsibility for money |
| National Labor Union | Social reform, killed by depression of 1870s |
| Knights of Labor | One big union |
| American Federation of Labor | Association pursuing ... |
| Most effective and then during labor union of the post Civil War was the __ | AFL |
| The major factor in drawing country people off the farms and into the big cities was | Availability of industrial jobs |
| The new immigrants who came to the US after 1880 | Culturally different from previous immigrants |
| Bird of passage | Came to America to work for a short time then returned to europe |
| Plessy v Ferg ruling | Separate but equal is constitutional |
| Chinese came to US to | Dig for gold |
| In the post-Civil War America Indian surrendered their lands only when they | Received solemn promises from the government that they would be left alone and provided with supplies |
| In the warfare that race between the Indians in the American military after the Civil War | There was often great cruelty and massacres |
| The buffalo were nearly exterminated | Through wholesale butchery by whites |
| A century of dishonor, which chronicled the dismal history of Indian white relations, was authored by | Helen hunt Jackson |
| To assimilate into American society the Dawes act did all of the following except | Outlaw the sacred sun dance |
| The Dawes severalty act was designed to promote Indian | Assimilation |
| The enormous mineral wealth taken from the mining frontier of the west | Helped to finance the civil war |
| The mining frontier played a vital role in | Attracting the first substantial white population to the west |
| The wild frontier farms where the three major cattle trails from Texas ended were | Abilene, Kansas, Ogalalla, Nebraska, and Cheyenne Wyoming |
| The Homestead act assumed that public land should be administered in such a way as to | Promote frontier settlement |
| "Sooners" we're settlers who "jumped the gun" in order to | Claim land in Oklahoma |
| Among the following the least likely to migrate to the cattle and farming frontier were | Eastern city dwellers |
| In 1890 when the super intendant of the senses announced that a stable frontier line was no longer discernible | Americans were disturbed |
| Which of the following provides the least valid support for the theory that the frontier served as a safety valve | Farmers frequently migrated after profit |
| Cities like Denver and San Francisco did serve as a major safety valve by providing | A home for failed farmers and busted miners |
| The area of the country in which the federal government has done the most to aid economic and social development is the | West |
| In the decades after the civil war, most American farmers | Became increasingly self sufficient |
| Late 19th century farmers believed that their difficulties stemmed primarily from | A deflated currency |
| With agricultural production rising dramatically in the post-civil war years | Tenant farming spread rapidly through the south |