SSUSH 11 and 12 Test

After Gold was found in the Black Hills, the Plains Indians were forced to move to

• assimiliation
• reservations
• citizenship
• motivation

Which of the following inventions was not an improvement of the infrastructure in the 1800's?

• telegraph
• telephone
• light bulb
• cotton gin

Which industry was called America's first big business?

• Canals
• Railroads
• Airplanes
• Telephones

Which groups of people were NOT responsible for the building of the Transcontinental Railroad?

• Irish
• Germans
• Chinese
• Greeks

Which American endeavor connected the East coast to the West coast for the movement of goods and people?

• Erie Canal
• Golden Gate Bridge
• Transcontinental Railroad
• Skyscrapers

Rockefeller and Carnegie both built industries that controlled the competition. This is referred to as a

• labor union
• corporation
• domestic industries
• trusts/monopolies

Who invented the telephone?

• Samuel F.B. Morse
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Thomas Edison
• Samuel Gompers

Which other industry did the steel and oil industries directly benefit from?

• Erie Canal
• Panama Canal
• Interstate Highways
• Transcontinental Railroad

Who were the "New Immigrants" that arrived in the late 1800's and had a vast impact on society, politics, and the economy of the U.S.?

• Immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe
• Immigrants from Asia
• Immigrants from Northern and Western Europe
• Immigrants from South America and Mexico

Which inventor had more than 1500 patents that included the light bulb and the phonograph?

• Alexander Graham Bell
• Eli Whitney
• Samuel Gompers
• Thomas Edison