American Cultures A Final Exam Review

What transportation advancement connected American businesses and people like never before in the 1800s?

• Cars

• Airplanes

• Trains

• Electric Traincars

What communication device was created by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876 and allowed people to connect like never before?

• the Telegraph
• the Telephone
• the Bessemer Converter
• the Phonograph

What invention allowed for the production of steel to take far less time, thereby making it much cheaper?

• the Bessemer Converter
• Alternating Current Electricity
• the Phonograph
• the Kinetescope

What is the term for the time period in the late 1800s that was "covered in a thin layer of gold"?

• The Gilded Age

• The Progressive Era

• The Reconstruction Era

• The Great Depression

What is the positive term for the big businessmen, defining them as job creators and big time donors?

• Captains of Industry
• Robber Barons

What is the negative term used to describe the big businessmen, describing them as paying low wages and forcing workers to work in dangerous conditions?

• Captains of Industry
• Robber Barons

Who was the oil man controlled 90% of American oil through the Standard Oil Company?

• John D. Rockefeller
• Cornelius Vanderbilt
• Andrew Carnegie
• J.P. Morgan

Who was the monopoly man that was the first to strike it rich in the steel industry?

• John D. Rockefeller
• Andrew Carnegie
• J.P. Morgan
• Cornelius Vanderbilt

What year did the 19th Amendment pass and females allowed to vote throughout the U.S.?

• 1848
• 1872
• 1913
• 1920

What kind of test hurt African American voting by requiring voters that had not attended school past 5^th grade to pass it in order to be eligible to vote?

• a Poll Tax
• a Literacy Test
• a Civics Test
• a Math Test