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The Gilded Age and the American West
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1. Th e Wabash case, decided by the Supreme Court in 1886, led to the passage of which law?
2. Horizontal integration is best illustrated by
3. In response to the 1894 Pullman strike, the U.S. government
4. Which author is credited with coining the term Gilded Age?
5. Which of the following factors played the largest role in increasing the settlement of the Great Plains?
6. William Jennings Bryan lost his 1896 campaign for the presidency because he
7. Which of the following was not part of the Populist Party’s platform?
8. Which of the following people is not correctly matched to the industry or business he is historically associated with?
9. Farmers of the late 19th century did not benefi t from the
10. The main purpose of the Interstate Commerce Act was to
11. Which of the following inventions is not associated with Th omas Edison?
12. In what way did the Knights of Labor differ from the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
13. The primary function of the Grange movement was to
14. Which of the following statements was not true of the 1862 Homestead Act?
15. What was the main focus of the Ghost Dance movement?
16. Tammany Hall of the late 19th century was
17. Which Native American nation is most associated with Wounded Knee?
18. Andrew Carnegie engaged in the practice of vertical integration by
19. Which of the following statements best describes the condition of western cattle ranching during the 1880s?
20. The function of the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862 was to
21. Frederick Jackson Turner’s thesis argued that America’s frontier
22. What did the events that took place between Chief Joseph of the Nez Percé and the federal government illustrate about U.S.–Native American relations in the late 19th century?
23. The goal of the Sherman Antitrust Act was to
24. The Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869 when the Central Pacifi c Railroad and the Union Pacifi c Railroad met at
25. The 1887 Dawes Severalty Act was passed to