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Social Studies Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who invented the typewriter? | C. Latham Sholes |
| What is businesses should be ran without government interference? | Laissez-faire |
| What amendment said you don't have to witness against yourself? | 5th |
| What is armistice? | truce |
| What is money, equipment, machinery? | capital |
| What is the prohibition Amendment? | 18th |
| What are the factors of production? | land, Labor, capital |
| What is a quorum? | majority |
| What branch interprets laws? | Judicial |
| What branch enforces laws? | Executive |
| What more than doubled between 1860-1890? | Population |
| What is a tariff? | tax |
| Who are people who organize and take risks for business? | entrepreneurs |
| Who invented the telephone? | Alexander Graham Bell |
| What made moving goods by train quicker? | standard gauge track |
| What amendment allowed women to vote? | 19th |
| What is domination of one country over another? | Imperialism |
| What branch makes laws? | Legislative |
| What amendment repealed the 18th amendment? | 21st |
| What is theft in office? | graft |
| Who are people who are paid to represent a special interest group? | lobbyists |
| What is known as the second Civil War? | reconstruction |
| What made farming very difficult? | climate |
| What are houses built in the side of hills? | dugouts |
| What is amnesty? | a general pardon |
| What is restoration of white leadership? | Redemption |
| Who is someone with the south agreeing with the north? | scalawag |
| What amendment ended slavery? | 13th |
| What amendment made slaves citizens? | 14th |
| What amendment allowed slaves to vote? | 15th |
| What is digging deep into the earth to get moist soil? | Dry farming |
| What destroyed crops in 1874-Texas to the Dakotas? | Grasshoppers |
| What helped make farming easier? | Steam powered machinery |
| What organization was started by farmers? | grange |
| What was the population that made up a large portion of the work force? | immigrants |
| Where did open range ranching start? | Texas |
| Where was the transcontinental railroad completed? | Promontory Point, Utah |
| What originated because there were no railroads linking Texas to the north? | Long drive |
| What is unbranded cattle? | Mavericks |
| Where did the Union Pacific start building? | Omaha, Nebraska |
| What is roaming around for a food source? | nomadic |
| Where did the Central Pacific start building? | Sacramento, California |
| Where did the Indians kill Gen. Custer? | Little Big Horn |
| What is the 1820 description of the region beyond the Mississippi River? | Great American Desert |
| What is the last major battle of the Indian wars? | Wounded Knee |
| Who are citizens who organized to preserve law and order? | vigilance committee |
| What is a mine in Nevada that yielded great amounts of silver? | Comstock Lode |
| What extended from Montana to Texas? | Cattle Kingdom |
| What are characteristics of the "long drive"? | --Move cattle from Texas to the northern railways - 8-10 men. --Watching over 2500 head of cattle. |
| What are all the points of the Homestead Act? | --Had to pay a small fee. --160 acres of land. --Had to farm it for 5 years. |
| All points of the Timber Culture Act? | --Additional 160 acres of land. --Had to plant trees on 40 acres. |
| All points of the Desert Land Act? | --640 acres of land. --Had to attempt to irrigate land. |
| Cattle industry difficulties? | --Death by disease. --Blizzards - stolen - shot - drown in flash floods - overgrazing - Texas Fever - blind from drought. |
| Characteristics of mining towns? | --Many saloons and gambling houses. --A touch of lawlessness - a rough place to live. |
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