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Which of the following is an example of a monopoly?
a) A transcontinental railroad line
b) A large oil company in one state
c) Standard Oil owning all the oil refinery plants
d) A national market for packaged meat

What kind of laws denied African Americans the same rights as white Americans in the late 1800s and 1900s?
a) Jim Crow
b) Reconstruction
c) Labor
d) Suffrage

Which leader believed that it would be acceptable for African Americans to sit in segregated areas?
a) W. E. B. DuBois
b) Nat Turner
c) Marcus Garvey
d) Booker T. Washington

Which of the following was not an invention that helped settlers move west into the Great Plains.
a) Telephones
b) Windmills
c) Barbed Wire
d) Steel Plows

What could John D. Rockefeller’s control of 95 percent of the oil industries in America be considered?
a) corporation
b) cooperatives
c) enterprise
d) monopoly

Which immigrant group was excluded by Congress in 1882?
a) French
b) Chinese
c) Italians
d) Russians

Which one of the following did not influence the development of the Great Plains and the West?
a) increased need for factory workers
b) development of a Transcontinental Railroad
c) Homestead Act of 1862
d) adaptations and inventions for living on the Great Plains

What topic did the Homestead Act deal with?
a) Westward Expansion
b) The Progressive Era
c) Urbanization
d) Gold Rush of 1849

Which of the following is NOT a reason why millions of immigrants left Europe?
a) religious persecution
b) political persecution
c) prosperity
d) poverty

Which African American believed in full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans?
a) Frederick Douglass
b) George Washington Carver
c) Booker T. Washington
d) W. E. B. DuBois

What do Sitting Bull, Geronimo, and Chief Joseph have in common?
a) They welcomed white settlers to American Indian homelands
b) They accepted assimilation into white society
c) They opposed western expansion
d) They peacefully entered reservations

What was the result of the Massacre of Wounded Knee?
a) It ended the lives of General Custer and his men.
b) It ended the transfer of Native Americans to reservations.
c) It allowed the railroad to complete the construction across the continent.
d) It ended the fight against the pioneers by the Plains Indians.

'Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.' In this statement, Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce expressed his reluctant acceptance of a government policy of
a) placing Native American Indian tribes on reservations.
b) forcing Native American Indians to assimilate into American culture.
c) requiring Native American Indians to settle west of the Mississippi River.
d) granting immediate citizenship to Native American Indians.

Following the Civil War, who urged Southerners to reconcile with Northerners and reunite America?
a) Abraham Lincoln
b) Frederick Douglass
c) Robert E. Lee
d) Ulysses S. Grant

Which amendment ensured the right to vote to all citizens regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude?
a) 13th Amendment
b) 16th Amendment
c) 15th Amendment
d) 14th Amendment

What officially outlawed slavery in the United States and its territories?
a) 15th Amendment
b) 13th Amendment
c) 14th Amendment
d) Civil Rights Act

Which of the following manufacturing areas is INCORRECTLY paired with the industry?
a) Textile industry—New England
b) Steel industry--Pittsburgh
c) Meat packing—St. Louis
d) Automobile industry-- Detroit

Which of the following is the BEST reason why the frontiers of the West opened up to farming and ranching?
a) Wood was finally able to be transported to the Great Plains.
b) The discovery of gold and silver provided the necessary money.
c) Railroads linked the resources of the West to the markets of the East.
d) Automobiles improved mobility.

Which of the following does NOT describe the Great Plains?
a) Erosion from wind and water
b) Frequent dust storms
c) Plenty of rainfall
d) Flat lands that rise from East to West

Which of the following was not a negative result of industrialization?
a) child labor
b) low pay
c) unsafe working conditions
d) production of more goods

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