United States History Quiz 4

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Grover Cleveland

Who was the first President to serve 2 terms non-consecutively?

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Andrew Carnegie, John D, Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan

Who were the 3 Titans?

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Andrew Carnegie

Who made his fortune in Steel?

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John D. Rockefeller

Who made his fortune in oil and Kerosine?

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John D. Rockefeller

Who was the first billionaire and is considered the riches man in modern history?

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J. P. Morgan

Who made his fortune in banking?

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J. P. Morgan

Who bought Carnegie’s steel company and made it the first billion-dollar company?

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William Mckinley

Who was the 3rd president to be assassinated?

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McKinley

As a result of who’s assassination did the secret service start protecting the President?

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McKinley

Who’s was the first inauguration to be filmed?

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Economy

How a government buys and sells goods is called its type of what?

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Republic

At the federal level, we are a __?

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Democracy

At the state level, we are a __?

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Anarchy

Which type of government will you typically see during the transition from one government to another?

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Anarchy

What simply means “without rule”?

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Monarchy

In what form of government does the power lie with the head of state?

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Dictatorship

In what form of government does the power lie with the dictator?

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Capitalism

What economic system uses private ownership of companies and free markets?

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Free Market

What is it called when prices are determined by supply and demand?

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Socialism

“From each according to his ability, to each according to his DEEDS”

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Communism

“From each according to his ability, to each according to his NEEDS”

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Socialism

What is usually defined as redistribution of wealth?

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Leon Czolgosz

Who assassinated William McKinley?

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Karl Marx

Who is known as the father of Communism?

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Wounded Knee

What was the last armed conflict between the white man and the Indian?

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Ghost Dance

What was the religious dance started by Wovoka claimed to have seen visions of God with the Indians being able to return to their form state?

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Battle of Little Big Horn

Colonel Custer and 264 memebers of his regiment were wiped out by the Sioux led by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull

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Sand Creek Massacre

Black Kettle’s group was killed by Colonel J. M. Chivington while under the impression that they were safe

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Decimation of the Buffalo

White desire for buffalo skin coats, along with the disappearance of the open plains, led to the decimation of the buffalo herds

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Wovoka

Who was the Paiute Responsible for the Ghost Dance?

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Geronimo

Who succeeded Cochise and refused to be a part of the reservation. He fought on for nearly 15 years before surrendering refusing to live on a reservation?

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Cochise

Who was the Apache Chief who accepted a treaty with the whites that allowed their reservation to be part of the tribe’s original land?

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Chief Joseph

Who was the Nez Perce leader who almost made it to the Canadian border?

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General Custer

Who led the 7th Cavalry and was killed, along with all of his men at Little Bighorn?

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Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull

Who were two Sioux leaders at the Battle of Little Bighorn

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Red Cloud

Who was the Sioux Indian who led a group of indians who terrorized the soldiers and construction workers of the Boseman trail in Montana?

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Colonel J. M. Chivington

Which colonel led a volunteer militia who killed 133 of Black Kettle’s peolple? (105 of them were women)

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Black Kettle

Who was the Cheyenne Indian seeking peace at Fort Lyon under the assumption that thye should be safe?

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Little Crow

Who was the Sioux Indian who led a massacre of 700 whites during the Civil War?

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