Standard 11c Standard 12c Standard 12d Standard 13c Standard 13e Final Jeopardy

What company did John D. Rockefeller form in 1870? Check Your Answer

 Standard Oil Company Back to Game Board

 Rockefeller used what method by bringing together many firms of the same business? Check Your Answer

Horizontal consolidation Back to Game Board

 What occurs when a company has complete control over a product or service? Check Your Answer

monopoly Back to Game Board

 What is the result of horizontal consolidation? Check Your Answer

 The company achieves maximum profit and creates a monopoly of the oil business Back to Game Board

 Who ran Standard Oil Company and the companies allied with it? Check Your Answer

 Board of Trustees Back to Game Board

 What did the Morill Land- Grant Act do? Check Your Answer

 give states western land Back to Game Board

 What was the Homestead Act? Check Your Answer

 allowed more than 372,000 farms to be created… for a small fee settlers could have 160 acres of land with some rules Back to Game Board

 What caused the Battle of Wounded Knee? Check Your Answer

 The Sioux were doing the ghost dance which promised a return to their traditional lives, the government thought they were becoming restless ; Calvary was sent in to provide protection for the government agents Back to Game Board

Whose arrest led to the death of more than 200 Sioux? Check Your Answer

 Sitting Bull Back to Game Board

 What was the last major episode of violence in the Indian Wars? Check Your Answer

 The Battle of Wounded Knee Back to Game Board

 Why were labor unions formed? Check Your Answer

 To help members by expressing workers demands to their employers for example – shorter work days, higher wages, better working conditions Back to Game Board

 How did workers attempt to have their demands met? Check Your Answer

 Going on strike Back to Game Board

 Who created a luxury sleeping car that was larger than regular train cars? Check Your Answer

 George Pullman Back to Game Board

 When Pullman laid off workers and cut salaries by 25%, how did the workers react? Check Your Answer

 Protested and Pullman refused to cooperate Back to Game Board

 How did the President handle the strike? Check Your Answer

 Sent in federal troops to make sure the workers obeyed a court order to end the strike Back to Game Board

 What impact did Jim Crow Laws have on African Americans? Check Your Answer

 Limited their rights by requiring segregation; African American facilities were almost always inferior. Back to Game Board

 Why did Homer Plessy argue his right of equal protection under the laws was being violated? Check Your Answer

 Because segregation was required in the seating on a train Back to Game Board

 What was the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson? Check Your Answer

Separate facilities are legal as long as the facilities are equal to the facilities provided to the whites Back to Game Board

 What was formed to abolish segregation and discrimination? Check Your Answer

 NAACP Back to Game Board

 When was the NAACP formed? Check Your Answer

 After a white social worker organized a national conference Back to Game Board

 What is initiative? Check Your Answer

 a process in which citizens can put a proposed new law directly on the ballot in the next election by collecting voters’ signatures on a petition Back to Game Board

 What allows voters to remove public officials from office before the next election? Check Your Answer

 Recall Back to Game Board

 What types of reforms were made of labor laws? Check Your Answer

 limits on child labor  The number of work hours in a day  Minimum wages  Working conditions Back to Game Board

 What is a process that allows approving or rejecting a law passed by their legislature? Check Your Answer

 referendum Back to Game Board

 What is direct election of senators? Check Your Answer

 an election in which citizens vote to directly elect their senators Back to Game Board

 Why did large employers dislike and fear unions? Check Your Answer

 They wanted to work with employees as individuals.  They feared paying higher wages and meeting other demands would cause their costs to go up and they would not be as competitive in the market.