Quiz 2

The "new immigration" of the 1890s included all of the following groups EXCEPT

• Chinese

• Italian

• Russian

• Greeks

The first major flood of US population into the New West following the Civil War were:

• miners

• railroad workers

• ranchers

• industrial workers

All of the following contributed to the growth of cities EXCEPT

• cheap land in the inner cities

• the invention of the elevator

• the invention of the skyscraper

• mass transportation

The attempts to teach white culture to the American Indians was known as

• assimilation

• severalty

• the reservation system

• tribal sovereignty

In a rare victory for Native Americans, the Lakota Sioux earned a victory over the U S Army's Calvary and General George Custer at which battle:

• Wounded Knee, South Dakota

• Red River, Texas

• Little Big Horn Creek, Montana

• Shiloh, Tennessee

All of the following groups supported restriction of immigration during the Gilded Age EXCEPT:

• labor unions

• Social Darwinists

• nativists

• factory owners

Frederick Jackson Turner was a University of Wisconsin professor who wrote about the importance of U S Westward Expansion. What was the title of his famous book:

• The Significance of the Frontier in American History

• The Final Countdown

• The Final Frontier

• The Significance of Manifest Destiny in U S History

The primary catalyst for the modern vertical city was which of the following:

• steel

• revolution in the transportation system

• large amount of capital

• changes in city codes allowing for new zoning laws

One effect of mass transportation during the urbanization of the Gilded Age was:

• segregation of workers by income

• pollution from the exhaust of the automobiles

• high rates of speeding tickets issued by the local police

• people robbing trolley car conductors

All of the following are true about the Cowboy Culture of the mid/late 1800's EXCEPT:

• the majority of cowboys would become national heroes in U. S. society

• the majority of cowboys were African Americans or Mexicans

• they spent most of their time involved in round-ups and long-drives

• their life style was tedious, lonesome and challenging work