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Gilded Age (American West, Innovators, and Urbanization) Multiple Choice Test

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Gilded Age (American West, Innovators, and Urbanization)

Review over concepts surrounding the American West, early innovations of the Gilded Age, and Urbanization,

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Completed in 1869, this linked East to West in the United States and helped to create much of the change we see in the Gilded Age.

The Transcontinental Railroad was built by two competing companies, the Union Pacific and the _____________.

The immense cost of building railroads in the US was often paid for by the _____________.

Most of the labor for building railroads in the US came from which two groups of immigrants?

This helped to open the West to settlement by giving away cheap land to settlers who stayed and worked on it for five years.

Which of the following was not a way that the Native Americans used the buffalo?

What was the effect of reservations on the Plains tribes?

Reservation schools were designed to do all of the following EXCEPT . . .

Which of the following was not one of Thomas Edison's inventions?

What happened to cities as a result of the Second Industrial Revolution?

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