Gilded Age (American West, Innovators, And Urbanization) Question Preview (ID: 57160)


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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.
a) Transcontinental Railroad
b) Erie Canal
c) Interstate Highway System
d) Wilderness Road

The Transcontinental Railroad was built by two competing companies, the Union Pacific and the _____________.
a) Louisville and Nashville Railroad
b) Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
c) Central Pacific
d) Central Atlantic

The immense cost of building railroads in the US was often paid for by the _____________.
a) Private investors
b) US government
c) Foreign countries interested in trade
d) Corporations

Most of the labor for building railroads in the US came from which two groups of immigrants?
a) Irish and Chinese
b) French and German
c) Japanese and English
d) Norway and Denmark

This helped to open the West to settlement by giving away cheap land to settlers who stayed and worked on it for five years.
a) Homestead Act of 1862
b) Railway Act
c) Interstate Commerce Act
d) Quota Act of 1924

Which of the following was not a way that the Native Americans used the buffalo?
a) The meat provided food for the tribe
b) Hides were used to make shelters and clothing
c) Bones were used to make ceramic dishes that could be sold to settlers
d) Dung was collected to be used as fuel

What was the effect of reservations on the Plains tribes?
a) It destroyed their nomadic way of life
b) It strengthened their community since they weren't moving around
c) Their population grew because of their access to agriculture
d) The relied even more on the buffalo for resources

Reservation schools were designed to do all of the following EXCEPT . . .
a) Teach Native children English
b) Assimilate Native Americans into American society
c) Dismantle existing Plains tribes culture, religion, and society
d) Provide industrial training for adult Native Americans so they could compete for jobs

Which of the following was not one of Thomas Edison's inventions?
a) Movie camera
b) Electric Chair
c) phonograph
d) steamboat

What happened to cities as a result of the Second Industrial Revolution?
a) They grew incredibly fast as factories increased demand for labor
b) The population remained relatively the same as it did before the Gilded Age
c) The population dropped as more and more people moved away from the dangerous environment of the city
d) Changes in sea level forced many citizens to leave the city

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