HIST 1302 Ch 17-19

Booker T. Washington was the 1st president of what institution?

• Harvard

• Yale

• William & Mary

• Tuskegee Institute

In his "Frontier Thesis," Frederick Jackson Turner explained that one reason for American Development was the settlement of the west.

• True

• False

Sears & Roebuck started the first department store.

• True

• False

1 of the 3 classes of society during the Gilded Age was:

• Urban

• Industrial

• Middle

• Union

AFL stands for:

• American Football League

• American Federation of Labor

• American Falls Low-Country

More than 5 million people, per year, immigrated to America in the 1880's.

• True

• False

The Chinese Exclusion Act was signed in:

• 1880

• 1881

• 1882

• 1883

The first federal agency designed to regulate business activity was the Interstate Railroad Commission

• True

• False

The Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890) was enacted to:

• Please western states who had silver mines

• Make a dig at Democrats

• Make sure Republicans were re-elected

• Help farmers with their money problems

The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was NOT the first nationwide labor uprising.

• True

• False