Chapter 18-21 Test

Define Sitting Bull

• A Sioux leader who protested new demands of selling their reservation lands in the Black Hills.

• Economic system in which there is competition between businesses with little government control.

• Amendment to a U.S. resolution declaring that the United States did not intend to take over and annex an independent Cuba.

• Type of monetary system in which currency is backed exclusively by gold.

Define Teller Amendment

• A Sioux leader who protested new demands of selling their reservation lands in the Black Hills.

• Economic system in which there is competition between businesses with little government control.

• Amendment to a U.S. resolution declaring that the United States did not intend to take over and annex an independent Cuba.

• Type of monetary system in which currency is backed exclusively by gold.

Define free enterprise

• A Sioux leader who protested new demands of selling their reservation lands in the Black Hills.

• Economic system in which there is competition between businesses with little government control.

• Amendment to a U.S. resolution declaring that the United States did not intend to take over and annex an independent Cuba.

• Type of monetary system in which currency is backed exclusively by gold.

Define gold standard

• A Sioux leader who protested new demands of selling their reservation lands in the Black Hills.

• Economic system in which there is competition between businesses with little government control.

• Amendment to a U.S. resolution declaring that the United States did not intend to take over and annex an independent Cuba.

• Type of monetary system in which currency is backed exclusively by gold.

Define Pacific Railway Acts

• Two laws passed by the federal government that gave loans and land grants to railroad companies to encourage them to build a transcontinental railroad.

•  Opened in 1914, a canal built by the United States across the Isthmus of Panama to link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

• Economic system in which there is competition between businesses with little government control.

• Constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote.

Define Panama Canal

• Two laws passed by the federal government that gave loans and land grants to railroad companies to encourage them to build a transcontinental railroad.

•  Opened in 1914, a canal built by the United States across the Isthmus of Panama to link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

• Economic system in which there is competition between businesses with little government control.

• Constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote.

Define suburbs

• Two laws passed by the federal government that gave loans and land grants to railroad companies to encourage them to build a transcontinental railroad.

•  Opened in 1914, a canal built by the United States across the Isthmus of Panama to link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

• Constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote.

• Residential neighborhoods surrounding a city

Define Nineteenth Amendment

• Two laws passed by the federal government that gave loans and land grants to railroad companies to encourage them to build a transcontinental railroad.

•  Opened in 1914, a canal built by the United States across the Isthmus of Panama to link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

• Constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote.

• Residential neighborhoods surrounding a city

Define Comstock Lode

• Two laws passed by the federal government that gave loans and land grants to railroad companies to encourage them to build a transcontinental railroad.

• Nevada gold and silver deposit discovered by Henry Comstock in 1859.

• Constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote.

• The practice of building an empire by founding colonies or conquering other nations.

Define imperialism

• Two laws passed by the federal government that gave loans and land grants to railroad companies to encourage them to build a transcontinental railroad.

• Nevada gold and silver deposit discovered by Henry Comstock in 1859.

• Constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote.

• The practice of building an empire by founding colonies or conquering other nations.