West-Industry-Urbanization 1. What is another name for the Great Plains? 2. What two things were many Plains Indians dependent upon? 3. Name four Plains Indian tribes? 4. Why did the railroads extend to the west? 5. What animal did the railroads nearly drive to extinction? 6. What is a cross-country railroad called? 7. Name the two railroads that built the first cross-country railroad? 8. Where and when was the railroad completed? 9. What was the basic conflict between settlers and Indians? 10. What Indian lands were invaded by miners looking for gold? 11. Name the battle where Custer and his men were defeated? 12. Name the two Indian leaders at Custer’s Last Stand? 13. Who was Chief of the Nez Pierce Indians? 14. Name the last of the Indian battles? 15. What law gave Indian families 160 acres of land? 16. What name was given to the area where cattle were ranched? 17. Why did the demand for cattle increase? 18. How was the life of the cowboy different than what we imagine? 19. What invention of Joseph Glidden’s changed the frontier? 20. Name four areas where the country faced a gold rush? 21. What is a Ghost Town? 22. What were the short stories that told of legend and adventure in the west? 23. What law created 160 acre farms for settlers? 24. Name three technological advances that improved life on the frontier? 25. Type of house that many Plains families first built? 26. Name three reasons that farming began to decline in the late 1800’s? 27. What is the overall decrease in the price of goods called? 28. How did this hurt farmers? 29. What did farmers want to do to stop this trend? 30. What group often took advantage of farmers and their dependency? 31. What is the other name for the Grange? 32. What were Granger laws? 33. What political party formed to replace the Grange? 34. Name several reforms proposed by the new People’s Party? 35. What was the overall theme of the 1896 Presidential campaign? 36. What was the Cross of Gold Speech? 37. Name the two candidates for President in 1896? 38. Who wins the 1896 election? 39. Name three reasons why the United States became the world’s leading economy? 40. What policy has the government not interfering in people’s lives? 41. What laws protected American businesses from foreign competition? 42. The idea that large businesses can operate more efficiently? 43. Who invented the telephone? 44. Who perfected the incandescent light bulb and the phonograph? 45. What industry helped bring about standardized time zones? 46. Why did some people dislike big businesses? 47. What are the advantages of big businesses? 48. What was Horatio Alger known for? 49. This is a type of business that controls the supply of a product? 50. When a business controls all other companies of the same type? 51. When a business controls other companies that contribute to that industry?

West-Industry-Urbanization 52. Leader of the Standard Oil Company? 53. Leader of the steel industry? 54. Major banking leader in the nation? 55. Leading railroad owner? 56. Wrote an article exposing the evils of the Standard Oil Company? 57. Theory that the best business will survive and prosper? 58. The practice of giving away large sums of wealth? 59. Name given to the major owners of the big businesses? 60. Federal Law that attempted to regulate the activities of big businesses? 61. Monopoly formed by creating one large company out of several companies? 62. Monopoly formed by the leaders of several businesses acting as one? 63. Describe working conditions in the late 1800’s? 64. What was a company town? 65. What is the job of a labor union? 66. What method did unions use to try and achieve their goals? 67. What is a blacklist? 68. What is a lockout? 69. What were replacement workers called? 70. A court order to stop striking is called? 71. In what way did the Federal Government get involved in strikes? 72. Which Labor Union accepted all types of workers? 73. What happened at Haymarket Square that hurt the goal of unions? 74. What type of worker was allowed to join the AFL? 75. How was an industrial union different? 76. Who was the leader of the Knights of Labor? 77. Who led the AFL? 78. Who started the Industrial Union movement? 79. Where were the first immigrants to the United States from? 80. What advantages did these immigrants have? 81. How did immigration change in the later 1800’s? 82. What are ethnic neighborhoods? 83. What group did the government ban from further immigration in 1882? 84. What were three reasons that cities were growing so fast in the late 1800’s? 85. What were the cramped, poorly built apartment buildings of the cities called? 86. What book did Jacob Riis write? 87. What was Riis’ book about? 88. Who started Hull House in Chicago? 89. What was Hull House? 90. What large American city was nearly destroyed by fire in 1871? 91. Name several things that began to improve the quality of urban living? 92. What term is used to describe the action of stealing money from the government? 93. What term describes the process of getting paid to give out gov’t projects? 94. What is a political machine? 95. Why were political machines able to control an area? 96. What famous political machine controlled New York City? 97. What famous cartoonist helped to expose the corruption of the machine? 98. What kind of scandal was Credit Mobilier? 99. Congress was often accused of being controlled by these groups in the later 1800’s? 100. Which President first began a campaign to reform the government? 101. Which President was assassinated over trying to reform the corrupt government? 102. What is the Pendelton Act? 103. What was the major issue in federal politics between 1884 and 1896?