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How many people died in the Haymarket Riot?

11

In what city did the Haymarket Riot occur?

Chicago

Why did President Cleveland call in the army to end the Pullman Palace

Car Strike?

blocking the train tracks stopped mail delivery

Why did Congressman support tariffs in the early days of

industrialization?

to protect U.S. businesses from European competition

vertical alignment

What term refers to a company when it owns all the different businesses in the production

process?

What is the main principle of Marxism?

They want a classless society where everyone is

equal.

How did cable and street cars improve lives in the U.S.?

They could get better homes farther from their

jobs.

How did light bulbs improve factories and people’s lives?

Factories could stay open 24 hours, & people had

light in their homes.

What invention affected people’s lives the most in the 1800’s?

electricity

How did refrigerated railcars improve people’s lives?

Meat was safer since it didn’t spoil when shipped.

Orders increased in businesses, and people

could talk to families far off easier.

How did the telephone improve business and people’s lives?

Greenville Dodge

Who was the leader of the Union Pacific Railroad that linked the nation with the Transcontinental Railroad?

catch and punish criminals

What did vigilance committees do out west?

grasshoppers, fire, bad weather

What are 3 hardships settlers faced trying to farm on the plains?

China

From where did the railroads get workers to finish the railroad?

Samuel Gompers

Who was the first leader of the American Federation of Labor who

wanted the union to stay out of politics?

It would keep their cows from grazing grass.

Why did ranchers see barbed wire as a threat?

James Hill

Who was the leader of the Great Northern Railroad who was NOT

corrupt and never let it go bankrupt?

so that the Indians could not stay on the

reservations

Why did the army kill the buffalo?

George Custer

Who led the U.S. Calvary against the Sioux causing all the soldiers to

die?

Stephen Long

Who nicknamed the Great Plains the “Great American Desert”?

Joseph Glidden

Who improved barbed wire?

They became ghost towns.

What happened to early boom towns when the gold ran out?

Abilene, Kansas

To what city did the Chisolm Trail end?

kerosene

Before cars, what was oil used most for?

$10

How much did a claim to get land through the Homestead Act cost?

having a huge variety of products in a fancy

building

How did department stores change the idea of shopping??

dry farming

What is it called when you plant seeds deep in the soil to get any

moisture possible?

by forming a holding company

How did companies avoid allegations of a monopoly?

Ghost Dance

What ritual did the Sioux do to make the buffalo return and the

white man leave?

mining

What brought the first settlers out west?

Were the annuities that the government gave Native

Americans enough to survive on reservations?

No

Give 3 results of the flood of ranchers, farmers, and miners to

the Great Plains

1. closing the frontier

2. ended Indian’s way of life

3. added new states

Give 2 reasons early unions failed

1. couldn’t organize effectively

2. sometimes cause violence with strikes

How did Union Pacific investors get rich in the Credit Mobilier scandal?

They overpaid bills to a construction company that they

owned

What two companies had the top mail order catalogues in the late

1800s?

Sears Roebuck & Montgomery Ward

Name 4 difficulties that the farmers faced on the Great Plains in the

late 1800s?

blizzards, wind, fire, grasshoppers, drought,

scorching heat

What was the main cause of the end of the long cattle drivers in the

1800s?

Barbed wire

What is an organization owned by many people but treated but law as

though it were a single person called?

corporation

What were advantages of large businesses over small businesses?

Large businesses could make goods faster and cheaper,

could survive easier in a bad economy, and had lower

operating costs

What term refers to agreements made by companies to maintain

prices at a certain level?

Pools

What did the Morrill Land Grant increase and create?

Colleges for agriculture and mechanics

What is true about the Great Railway Strike of 1877?

• President Hayes ended it by sending in the army

• Involved 11 states

• Unions began organizing more

What were results of the fencing of the open range?

• Long drives ended

• Cowboys became ranch hands

What groups did make up the majority of early cowboys?

African Americans, Hispanics, ex- Confederate soldiers

Does inflation raise or lower the value of money? Does deflation

raise of lower the value of money?

Inflation lowers while deflation rises

Give 2 reasons why the Dawes Act of 1877 failed to solve issues with

Native Americans

Higher wages and better working conditions