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Where did the transcontinental railroad first meet?
Promonatory Point, Utah
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How many transcontinental railroads were eventually built?
5
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The discovery of the Comstock Lode enabled which Western territory to become a state?
Nevada
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Why was the cattle business easy to get into in Texas?
The grass and the cattle were free
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What invention ended long cattle drives and free open range grazing?
Barbed Wire
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Which supreme court case upheld the right of states to regulate the rates railroads could charge?
Munn v Illinois
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Who was the American military leader famously killed at the battle of Little Big Horn?
George Armstrong Custer
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What event is considered the end of the Indian Wars on the Great Plains?
Wounded Knee
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Which African American leader famously promoted the use of crops such as sweet potatoes and peanuts?
George Washington Carver
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What were Jim Crow Laws?
Laws that established segregation across the South
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What does the term laissez-faire mean?
let things alone
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What is meant by the term Gilded Age?
Society looks good on the outside but is rotten on the inside
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What is Social Darwinism?
The idea that Darwin's theory of survival of the fitest should be applied to the marketplace
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What is a trust?
An organization that manages the assets of other companies
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Who was the most notable leader of the steel industry?
Andrew Carnegie
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How many time zones was the U.S. divided into by the Railroad companies?
4
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What industry produced the nations first truly "Big Business"?
Rail Road
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Where was the first true skyscraper built?
Chicago, IL
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Where did Thomas Edison establish his research labratory?
Menlo Park, NJ
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Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
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Which industry did the U.S. economy develop in the mid to late 1800's?
Railroad
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Who was the first person to figure out how to extract oil from the ground?
Edwin L Drake
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Which state was the first state to produce oil in the U.S.?
Pennsylvania
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What resource is closely associated with the Bessemer process?
Steel
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What is a vertically integrated company?
A company that controls the entire process of developing a resource and producing a product.
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What is philanthropy?
Giving away money to cheritable causes
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Which University did JD Rockefeller found?
University of Chicago
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Who is credited with developing the idea of communism?
Karl Marx
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In which city did the Haymarket affair take place?
Chicago
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What was the Haymarket affair?
A labor protest that turned violent
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By the beginning of the 20th century immigrants where only allowed to come to the U.S. from one Asian country. Which Asian country was it?
The Philippines
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In which country did the concept of kindergarten originate?
Germany
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What defines a "white collar worker"?
Workers who are paid a salary
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What was a Settlement House?
A place that provided social services for those living in poverty.
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Which reformer is most associated with the Settlement House movement?
Jane Addams
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In which city would you find Tammany Hall?
New York
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What is a political machine?
Tightly organized groups of politicians
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What was a dumbell tenament?
Buildings constructed with open ventilation shafts in the center
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Why did people leave the city for the suburbs?
to get away from crime, poverty and pollution
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Who was the first African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard?
WEB DuBois
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Which political party was Tammany Hall affiliated with?
Democrats
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What is a tarriff?
A tax on imported goods
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Which President is the only President to serve two non consecutive terms?
Grover Cleveland(And Donald Trump)
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Who became President after Garfield was assassinated?
Chester A. Arthur
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Who assassinated James Garfield?
Charles Guiteau
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Which state was James Garfield from?
Ohio
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Which President tried to reform the nations civil service system?
Rutherford B. Hayes
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What was the spoils system?
A system through which Presidents appointed government officials
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What was the patronage system?
A system by which politicians gave out government jobs to their friends
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What was the Tweed Ring?
A group of corrupt politicians from New York
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Which territories did William H. Seward make part of the United States?
Midway Island and Alaska
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Who was Liliuokalani?
She was a Hawaiian Queen
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What was yellow journalism?
Sensationalistic journalism that made use of lurid sometimes dishonest headlines
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Which country was Emilio Aguinaldo from?
The Philippines
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On which island is Guantanamo Bay located?
Cuba
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Who developed the Open Door Policy?
John Hay
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Of which country was Panama originally a part?
Columbia
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Which President practiced a foreign policy characterized by the phrase "Dollar Diplomacy"?
William Howard Taft
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Which company did William Demarest Lloyd criticize?
Standard Oil
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Which Constitutional amendment allowed for the direct election of U.S. Senators by the citizens of each state?
The 17th
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What was the Von Schleiffen plan?
The German plan for fighting a two front war
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What nuetral country needed to be invaded accoring to the Von Schlieffen plan?
Belgium
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At which river did the Allies final stop Germany?
The Marne
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Who started the Battle of the Somme?
The British
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Which type of warfare is WWI mosted associated with?
Trench warfare
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What was the area between the trenches known as?
no man's land
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How long did trench warfare last for during WWI?
3.5 years
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Who was the first country to use chemical weapons?
Germany
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What types of chemical weapons were used in WWI?
Chlorine and mustard gas
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Why did the Germans engage in unrestriced submarine warfare?
To counter the British blockade
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Which automaker first made cars affordable by using the assembly line to produce them?
Ford
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What were the Palmer Raids?
Government raids against suspected communists, socialists, and anarchists
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Who was the Lost Generation?
Authors, artists and scholars who were disallusioned with modern life.
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Who was John Scopes?
A biology teacher from Tennessee
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What were Sacco and Vanzetti accused and convicted of?
Murder
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What was the Harlem Renaissance?
A time period that saw the explosion of African American artists, musicians and writers
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What group denounced Catholics, Jews and immigrants during the 1920's?
The KKK
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Which amendment started Prohibition?
18th
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What was Prohibition?
The banning of the sale, production for sale and transport of alcohol in the United States
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What was Teapot Dome?
A Presidential scandal during the Harding administration
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Which country was the Open Door Policy primarily concerned with?
China
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What is a sphere of influence?
An area where a country has special privileges
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Who developed the Open Door Policy?
John Hay
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What position did John Hay hold in the government?
Secretary of State
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Which of the following was considered England's sphere of influence?
Hong Kong
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What did the Open Door Policy state?
That no country could prevent other countries from trading with in that country's sphere of influence
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Who or what were the Boxers rebelling against?
Foreign influence
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Who were the Boxers?
A secret society in China that sought to end foreign influence
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Who was Sun Yatsen?
A nationalist leader in China
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How did the Boxer Rebellion end?
A multinational force of Europeans and Americans put the rebellion down
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What was the Hoover Dam originally known as?
The Boulder Dam
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Which cities does the Hoover Dam power today?
Los Angeles and Las Vegas
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What was the purpose of the Federal Farm Marketing Board?
Help farmers sell their produce
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What industries did the Reconstruction Finance Corporation favor?
Banks and Railroads
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What was the purpose of the Home Loan Bank Act?
Prevent forclosures
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What was the chief criticism of Hoover by the Democrats in Congress?
He was doing to little
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What is rugged indivdualism?
A belief that people can help themselves
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What was the Bonus Army?
A group of WWI Veterans who wanted a bonus that the government had promised to be given to them earlier than was promised
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Why did Hoover not believe in direct federal aid?
He believed it would destroy peoples self respect
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What was the Gold Standard?
The idea that all U.S. currency should be backed by gold.
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