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7. How did railroads affect western settlement in the late 1800s?
They had very little effect on settlement because most work was done through unions.
Railroads provided construction jobs and then connected markets throughout the nation.
Railroads transported most of the settlers to the West Coast where they started farms.
Railroads contributed to the discovery of minerals that brought settlers west.
8. Which group suffered most as a result of western settlement?
Swedish immigrants
railroad men
Native Americans
copper miners
9. What two leaders fought at the Battle of Little Bighorn, a victory of sorts for Native Americans?
Red Cloud and Wyatt Earp
Crazy Horse and Wild Bill Hickok
Wovoka and William Cody
Sitting Bull and George Custer
10. Which Native American leader is most likely to have said the following?
Sitting Bull
Crazy Horse
Red Cloud
Chief Joseph
11. What was the effect of the Dawes Act on Native American tribes?
It brought citizenship and equality to Native Americans.
It granted land to individual families, but reduced the land available to tribes.
It provided extra money to tribes because land in excess of 160 acres per family was sold.
It gave Native Americans the means to learn and benefit from farming.
13. What was a common element of the rush to seek western land, timber, gold, and oil?
All were abundant, renewable resources.
All had been exploited by Native Americans for many years.
All were carefully regulated.
All had a negative environmental impact.
14. What were two techniques entrepreneurs used to create monopolies?
(Points: 3)
horizontal and vertical integration
stock options and investment bonds
trusts and treaties
bonds and bank notes
15. What did John D. Rockefeller do to establish Standard Oil as a monopoly?
set up a trust
bought stock options
invested in banks
kept discovering oil
16. Which statement describes the beginning of both the steel and oil industries in the United States?
The railroads were entirely responsible for the development and growth of both industries.
Without government subsidies, neither the steel nor the oil industry would have been established.
Strong men were determined to build important new industries by controlling resources and production.
Steel and oil both developed as unplanned successes that grew in response to new technology
17. How did railroads influence modern business practices?
by forming corporate boards
by issuing stocks and bonds
by resisting standardization
by creating reasonable scheduling expectations
18. How did innovations such as steam power, air brakes, automatic lubricator, and steel tracks affect the railroads?
They increased the cost of doing business and reduced profits.
They reduced the cost of doing business and hurt profits.
They created licensing problems that the government was slow to overcome.
They improved the ability of railroads to transport goods safely and efficiently.
19. Why was standardization of tracks and time zones important for railroads?
They forced Pullman and others to build cars according to certain standards.
They offered greater efficiency in production, safety, and scheduling.
They made it possible for towns to lay their own tracks.
They reduced competition in the western part of the country.
20. Which two inventors changed agriculture in the 1800s?
Joseph Glidden and Elias Howe
John Deere and Cyrus McCormick
Elijah McCoy and Eli Janney
John Mason and James Naismith
21. Which inventor improved techniques for using alternating current to bring electricity to the population at large?
Thomas Edison
George Westinghouse
Nikola Tesla
James Watt
22. What two products, in addition to the working light bulb, did Thomas Edison invent?
(Points: 3)
point-and-shoot camera and typewriter
vacuum cleaner and fountain pen
phonograph and motion picture camera
diesel engine and escalator
23. How did J.P. Morgan’s efforts to channel funds into the purchase of corporate stocks and bonds affect corporations?
It made them susceptible to monopolies.
It brought them under suspicion by the government.
It helped them grow.
It kept them from growing.
24. What role did cotton, tobacco, and steel play in the South following the Civil War?
They raised the possibility of environmental and health concerns.
They pushed the South’s economy ahead of the North’s.
They were mainstays in the growth and modernization of the southern economy.
They were monopo