Modern US History Semester 1 Review

The Homestead Act gave _______ of land to people to farm for 5 years.

• 1000 acres

• 1/4 square mile

• 2 plots (with a mule)

• 160 acres

______ was another name for Plains Farmers because of the problems with farming the hard ground.

• Midwest farmers

• Sod busters

• Plains farmers

• Sod farmers

General Custer lost the ______ by attacking 5000 Natives with only 225 troops.

• Comstock Lode

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Battle of Little Big Horn

• Battle at Wounded Knee

The _______ was responsible for making treaties with the Natives.

• Indian Affairs Office

• Farmer's Alliance

• Miner's Union

• Native American Trust Association

The _______ Dance was the most important religious ceremony thanking the Great Spirit for help in troubled times and asked for good fortune in the coming year.

• Ghost

• Crazy Horse

• Sun

• Wounded Knee

A ___ occurs when one company gains control of an entire market.

• integration

• pool

• monopoly

• arbitration

The total value of goods and services produced by a country is known as ___.

• Capital Gains

• Laissez Faire

• Gross National Product

• Gross Domestic Product

_______ is the combining of all the different businesses a company depends on for its operation.

• Horizontal integration

• pool

• monopoly

• Vertical Integration

_______ is the combining many firms engaged in the same type of business into one large corporation.

• Horizontal integration

• pool

• monopoly

• Vertical Integration

_______ invented the telephone.

• Thomas Edison

• Cyrus Field

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Bill Gates