American Growth (VUS 8 a & b)

I amassed my fortune from the steel industry. Later as a philanthropist, I provide funds for libraries, education and scientific research.

• Henry Ford
• Thomas Edison
• Andrew Carnegie
• Theodore Roosevelt

The Homestead Act of 1862 provided this to settlers who moved west. 

• Money
• Water
• Land
• golf

What did I invent/improve?

• Light bulb
• Steel Process
• Telephone
• Assembly-line manufacturing

The Transcontinental Railroad was mainly built with the help of which minority group?

• Hispanics
• African Americans
• Native American
• Chinese

This invention made travel much quicker and was refined in North Carolina by the Wright Brothers.

• Airplane
• Automobile
• Plow
• Locomotive

In what industry did this man make his fortune?

• Steel
• Oil
• Railroads
• Finance

The years immediately before and after the Civil War were the era of the American cowboy, marked by long cattle drives for hundreds of miles over unfenced open land in the West, which was the only way to get _______.

• cattle to market

• freedom from Spanish

• away from hostile indians

• a vacation

Mounting resentment led ________ to limit immigration through the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921. 

• Executive 
• Supreme Court
• President
• Congress

During the half-century from 1871 until 1921, most immigrants came from Southern and Eastern Europe, which are all the following areas, EXCEPT:

• Italy

• Greece

• Poland

• China

________ was the first city to begin construction of a subway system around the turn of the twentieth century, and many cities built trolley or streetcar lines. 

• Boston
• New York City
• Richmond
• Washington