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Settling the West, New South and Rise of Industry Review

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The capitalist associated with the steel industry.

a)

J.P. Morgan

b)

Andrew Carnegie

c)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

d)

John D. Rockefeller

2.

Who operated/served as executive for the Standard Oil Company?

a)

J.P. Morgan

b)

Andrew Carnegie

c)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

d)

John D. Rockefeller

3.

The settlement of the West can be most directly tied to which piece of legislation?

a)

Chinese Exclusion Act

b)

Morrill Land Grant Act

c)

The Homestead Act

d)

Northwest Ordinance

4.

Which of these events involved political violence?

a)

Coxey's March

b)

Plessy v. Ferguson

c)

Haymarket Square Protest

d)

Pullman Strike

5.

Which of these was NOT a prominent black American in the post-Reconstruction era?

a)

Henry Grady

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Ida B. Wells

d)

George Washington Carver

6.

The idea of the New South was most closely tied to which kind of economy?

a)

Agrarian

b)

Industrialized

c)

Agricultural

d)

Services

7.

Social Darwinism was often employed to defend which economic philosophy?

a)

socialism

b)

marxism

c)

laissez-faire

d)

Keynesian

8.

What is the term used to describe a business that holds a complete, or near-complete, grip on a section of the economy?

a)

titan

b)

directorate

c)

trust

d)

monopoly

9.

Which of these was NOT utilized to bar blacks from voting in the Jim Crow South?

a)

poll taxes

b)

land ownership

c)

grandfather clauses

d)

literacy tests

10.

The type of current utilized in the Transatlantic cable.

a)

applied current

b)

direct current

c)

alternating current

d)

Faraday Charge

11.

Which of these inventors was not prominent in the post-Reconstruction era?

a)

Robert Fulton

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

Nikola Tesla

d)

Alfred Nobel

12.

The faction of the democratic party that came into power after Reconstruction were known as what?

a)

Dixiecrats

b)

Redeemers

c)

Neo-liberals

d)

Democratic-Republicans

13.

Plessy v. Ferguson is tied to which legal precedent?

a)

freedmen cannot sue in court

b)

judicial review

c)

federalization of interstate commerce

d)

Separate but equal