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WorksheetsWest PRO Final Test
Total questions: 46
Worksheet time: 23mins
Which of the following acts made land ownership among American Indians private, rather than communal?
Dawes Act
Pacific Railway Act
Homestead Ac
Morrill Act
Plains Indians depended on which of the following animals for survival?
cattle and horses
cattle and sheep
horses and rabbits
horses and bison
Who encouraged people to move west by printing posters and pamphlets advertising fertile and inexpensive land?
cattle ranchers
Sodbusters
US government
railroad companies
What created the Great Sioux Reservation, completely free of whites?
Dawes Act
Treaty of Ft Laramie 1868
Morrill Act
Homestead Act
What was completed at Promontory, Utah, linking the East and the West?
Mississippi Riverboat
Homestead Act
Transcontinental
Railroad
cattle drives
The Native Americans greatest victory over the US was?
Sand Creek Massacre
Battle of the Little Bighorn
Massacre at Wounded Knee
The Fetterman Massacre
This Act granted over 17 million acres of western land to the states to be used for educational purposes
Morrill Act
Dawes Act
Homestead Act
Hamilton Act
These were African Americans who moved west in a mass departure.
Cowboys
Sodbusters
Exodusters
Cowgirls
Which of the following granted land to small farmers if they agreed to stay on the land for five years?
Dawes Act
Pacific Railway Act
Homestead Act
Morrill Act
What was the name of the attack on Black Kettle's camp, led by Col. Chivington, that resulted in the death of 200 old people, women, and children?
The Cheating Massacre
Wounded Knee Massacre
The Fetterman Massacre
Sand Creek Massacre
Most Americans Indians wanted to live on reservations
TRUE
FALSE
The Ghost Dance was a religious movement that spread across the South.
TRUE
FALSE
The Pawnee were forced to move to Indian Country after their land was given to the Sioux.
TRUE
FALSE
Where was the Trial of Standing Bear held?
Lincoln, NE
Washington DC
Ft. Robinson
Omaha, NE
A Paiute Indian named Wocoka began a religious movement called the Ghost Dance.
TRUE
FALSE
Chief Standing Bear was regarded as a leader of civil rights and was the Martin Luther King, Jr. of his day.
TRUE
FALSE
Owning all or nearly all the businesses in an industry is called monopoly
TRUE
FALSE
Which industry had the greatest impact on the Industrial Revolution?
Cattle
Entertainment
Automobile
Steel
If someone owns all the businesses involved in each step of the manufacturing process, from raw materials to the finished product, what is it called?
vertical integration
horizontal integration
Monopoly
Entrepreneur
People who start new businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so, are known as
Philanthropists
Financiers
Stockbrokers
Entrepreneurs
Which man brought the Bessemer process to America and became the King of Steel
Superman
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Ben Roethlisberger
Which man had a monopoly on the oil business and started a foundation named after him? He gave away over a trillion dollars in today's money
Bill Gates
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
Warren Buffet
African American men who served as soldiers in the Army in the late 1800's were known as
Buffalo soldiers
Cowboy soldiers
soldier soldiers
moose soldiers
Journalists who wanted to report about poor living conditions and immoral institutions and leaders were known as muckrakers.
TRUE
FALSE
Who was one of the main leaders of the Temperance movement?
Betsy Ross
Abigail Adams
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Carrie Nation
Which amendment gave women the right to vote, 144 years after Abigail Adams said "Remember the Ladies"?
1st Amendment
10th Amendment
15th Amendment
19th Amendment
The convention in 1848 to work for women's rights was called the Declaration of Sentiments.
TRUE
FALSE
Groups of people who work together to gain or maintain their rights in the workplace are called
Unions
Collective
Club
Fraternity
Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle", was an essay/novel promoting
Capitalism
Progressivism
Communism
Socialism
Used horizontal integration to control 90% of the oil business in America. Gave away over a trillion dollars in today's money.
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Warren Buffet
The Rectangle Shirtwaist Company had locked doors on the factory floors, causing a great loss of lives of the workers in a fire.
TRUE
FALSE
The Jungle, written by Upton Sinclair, described the horrible conditions in slaughter houses.
TRUE
FALSE
The Bessemer process
was soon replaced by a more efficient method of making steel
makes steel cheaper, faster, and stronger
cheaply refined oil into kerosene
improved telegraph communication by adding speech
Teddy Roosevelt helped create what system in the US?
railroad system
national parks system
interstate highway system
reservation system
After selling his company Andrew Carnegie used his wealth by
donating to entrepreneurs
developing department stores
donating to Mrs. MW's retirement fund
donating to build libraries
Supporters of women's suffrage also supported
settlement houses
an end to child labor
higher wages and safer working conditions
all of the above
President T. Roosevelt protected consumers by
allowing the sale and manufacturing of medicine and food containing harmful ingredients
setting rates for railroads
requiring federal inspection of meat shipped across state lines
working with Captain America and the Hulk to smash all those picking on consumers
Which document stated the 13 colonies' desire to be free from the mother country?
The Constitution
The Bill of Rights
The Monroe Doctrine
The Declaration of Independence
Which document states the basic fundamental laws of the US?
The Constitution
The Federalist Papers
The Monroe Doctrine
Snapgram
From which country did the US win independence?
France
Spain
Japan
Britain
Which side won the Civil War?
North
South
East
West
What type of government does the US have?
Democracy
Republic
Monarchy
Theocracy
Who was the President during the Civil War?
Washington
Adams
Lincoln
Obama
Who were the co-leaders of the expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase?
Lois and Clark
Ben and Jerry
Kim and Kanye
Lewis and Clark
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are known as ?
The Bill of Rights
Magna Carta
The Articles of Confederation
Pentagon Papers
Congress passed an exclusion act, in 1882, that barred what group from entering the US
Irish
Chinese
Japanese
Germans
