US History II Chapter 20, Sec 20.1-20.4 Test

What was America's most important means of transportation by the time of the Civil War?

• Railroad

• Car

• Bicycle

Name the two railroad companies commissioned to build the first transcontinental railroad.

• Union Pacific and Central Pacific

• Western Pacific and Central Pacific

• Western Union Company and Bell South

What was the battle at which Colonel George Custer's forces clashed with nearly 4,000 well-armed Sioux warriors led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull? Custer and 250 men died here.

• Battle of Little Big Horn

• Battle of Wounded Knee

• Treaty of Washington

Who developed new flour milling processes to establish the largest flour mills in the world in Minneapolis?

• James J. Hill

• Charles Alfred Pillsbury

• Franny Crosby

Who was the Canadian-American promoter of the line?

• Andrew Carnegie

• James J. Hill

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

What company dominated the telegraph network?

• Western Union Company

• AT&T

• Transcontinental Railroad Company

What was the 1890 massacre that left some 150 Native Americans dead, in what was the final clash between federal troops and the Sioux?

• Battle of Wounded Knee

• Fort in Wyoming

• Battle at Little Big Horn

What are two famous law enforcement figures of the Wild West?

• Wyatt Earp and "Wild Bill" Hickok

• Calamity Jane and Annie Oakley

• JP Morgan and John D. Rockefeller

Most successful railroad business tycoon

• William Seward

• Jay Gould

• Ulysses S. Grant

Who was the railroad owner who built a railway connecting Chicago and New York using steel rails instead of iron?

• Jay Gould

• J.P. Morgan

• Cornelius Vanderbilt