What were the three Native American tribes that were obstacles to the building of the TCRR?
Sioux, Arapaho, Cheyenne.
100
Name 3 of the top inventions of this age.
Electric light bulb, motion pictures, telephone, automobile.
100
What was the "Boxer Rebellion?"
A revolt in China against European countries & America that wanted to force China to trade with them. The Chinese fought with their fists & so were called "Boxers."
100
What was the biggest challenge to the Union Pacific builders? To the Central Pacific?
UP = Indians. CP: Sierra Nevada mountains.
200
What was the name of the railroad that went from the East to the West? From the West to the East?
Union Pacific & the Central Pacific.
200
How many different ways did Native Americans make use of buffaloes?
52.
200
What was the first big oil company & who founded it?
Standard Oil founded by John D. Rockefeller.
200
What 3 things could American women NOT DO during the period that made them "second class citizens?"
They couldn't vote, own property or sign legal documents.
200
Why didn't the Chinese Exclusion Act work to raise labor salaries for Americans?
The Chinese were replaced by other immigrants (Eastern Europe, Japanese, Irish) willing to work for low wages.
300
What were the last names of at least 3 of the top investors of the railroad that was being built from west to east?
Huntington, Hopkins, Crocker & Stanford.
300
What were three ways that settlers hurt the Native Americans?
Chased/killed buffaloes, smallpox, fouled water & fields.
300
Who was the leader in the steel industry? Name 2 types of customers who bought the most steel from him.
Andrew Carnegie sold steel to railroads & skyscraper builders.
Initiatives are when voters create a law by voting. Referendums are when they vote to support or veto a proposed law. Recalls are when they vote to get a politician out of office.
300
Why were there more rich people in Sacramento in the late 1800s than in Los Angeles or San Francisco?
Gold Rush money.
400
What were three characteristics of the Chinese that made them good workers for building the railroad?
Their good diet, they didn't drink, worked hard, worked for low pay.
400
To make faster progress through the mountains, what did the builders begin to use to blast out rocks besides black powder?
Nitroglycerin.
400
What were three ways that southerners tried to keep blacks from voting?
Poll taxes, literacy tests, lynching.
400
Who was the first Progressive president? What did he call his strategy for reform? Name 3 monopolies that he ended.
Teddy Roosevelt offered the "Square Deal." He stopped the railroad, Swift Meats & Oil monopolies.
400
How were immigrants to America in 1900 different from the ones in 1850?
1900 = Southern Europe, Mediterranean & Eastern European. 1850 = Most Irish fleeing from the Potato Famine.
500
What were three of the obstacles/dangers to travelers west BEFORE the TCRR?
Indian attacks, dysentery, accidents, lack of water, animals to be fed/watered.
500
Name two reasons why some Native Americans help the settlers against other tribes?
They were at war with those other tribes, they wanted the settlers to NOT attack THEM, they wanted to be on the winning side.
500
What were three of the reforms that the Populist Party wanted?
Silver coinage, non-citizens could not become land owners, abolishment of government banks, tax reform.
500
Name three things that "The Progressives" wanted to reform.
End monopolies, city over crowding, and improve labor conditions.
500
Name 2 pairs of industries whose products were needed by the other industry in order to be successful.
Railroads & steel manufacturers needed each other. Auto companies & oil companies needed each other.