1. SSUSH 11 & 12
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2. Big Business
Westward
Expansion
New Immigrants
Business leaders
Misc 10 20 30 40 50

3. Question
A PROCESS FOR MAKING STEEL STRONGER AND MORE AFFORDABLE.

4. Answer 1 – 10
What is the Bessemer Process

5. Question
He purchased Carnegie Steel and created U.S. Steel.

6. Answer 1 – 20
J.P. Morgan

7. Question
His inventions include the light bulb, the phonograph, & motion picture.

8. Answer 1 – 30
Thomas Edison

9. Question
The process of a business buying out it’s competitors.

10. Answer 1 – 40
Horizontal integration

11. Question
If a company owes all the resources it needs to produce and market a product then it is practicing this

12. Answer 1 – 50
Vertical integration

13. Question
Carnegie's idea that the wealthy have a responsibility to give money to help society is called

14. Answer 2 – 10
The Gospel of Wealth

15. Question
People who believed the wealthy business men of the gilded age had taken advantage of people by ruthless business practices, underpaying and overworking employees would refer to these men as

16. Answer 2 – 20
Robber barons

17. Question
The owner of Standard Oil

18. Answer 2 – 30
John D. Rockefeller

19. Question
A key figure in the railroad industry who extended the New York Central Railroad to reach Chicago.

20. Answer 2 – 40
Cornelius Vanderbilt

21. Question
This company was the nation’s first trust.

22. Answer 2 – 50
Standard Oil

23. Question
The Central Pacific and Union Pacific joined to form this

24. Answer 3 – 10
Transcontinental Railroad

25. Question
This group of people did much of the work on the Central Pacific Railroad

26. Answer 3 – 20
Chinese Immigrants

27. Question
Immigrants from this country were a large part of building the transcontinental railroad in the east.

28. Answer 3 – 30
Ireland

29. Question
The leader of the American Federation of Labor

30. Answer 3 – 40
Samuel Gompers

31. Question
Large numbers of African Americans moved West following the Civil War. This movement was known as the

32. Answer 3 – 50
Black Exodus

33. Question
As Americans claimed more and more of the lands, Native Americans were forced to move to these

34. Answer 4 – 10
Reservations

35. Question
When U.S. troops attempted to arrest this Sioux chief it resulted in the death of many Native Americans.

36. Answer 4 – 20
Sitting Bull

37. Question
A dance which the Sioux believed would bring back the buffalo, return Native American tribes to their lands and banish the whit man.

38. Answer 4 – 30
Ghost Dance

39. Question
The last conflict between Native Americans and U.S. soldiers.

40. Answer 4 – 40
Wounded Knee

41. Question
Beginning in 1870 new immigrants came from these two areas.

42. Answer 4 – 50
Eastern and Southern Europe

43. Question
Immigrants coming to America on the East Coast would first visit this processing center

44. Answer 5 – 10
Ellis Island

45. Question
New Immigrants had difficulty assimilating into the culture because of these two major differences

46. Answer 5 – 20
Could not speak English and practiced different religions.

47. Question
New Immigrants usually settled into separate neighborhoods known as this

48. Answer 5 – 30
ghettos

49. Question
Name three ways in which working conditions were poor in the gilded age.

50. Answer 5 – 40 Child labor Low wages Unsafe working conditions
Long hours
Long work weeks

51. Question
Immigrants often lived in overcrowded apartments. What were these apartments called

52. Answer 5 – 50
tenements