Module 2: Reading Assessment Quiz

that monopolies could charge whatever prices they wished.

By the end of the 19th century, many Americans were concerned about the effects of monopolies in the American economy. Their primary concern was:

displayed a yearning for freedom that reflected a larger vision of the West as the last refuge from the constraints of civilization.

Mark Twain's characters in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) was based on characters who:

produced the region's first economic boom.

Mining in the west

took place near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Orville and Wilbur Wright's first successful airplane flight in 1903

American Federation of Labor

Samuel Gompers was the leader of the

was a short-lived Indian victory

The 1876 Battle of Little Big Horn

assigned all tribes to their own defined reservations.

In the 1850s, the United States policy of concentration for Indians

organize industrial production into many simple tasks.

In the early twentieth century, a principle goal of "Taylorism" was to

the use of interchangeable parts.

A key to Henry Ford's success in mass production of automobiles was

Barrios

After the acquisition of California the states Mexican and Mexican-American population became part of the lower end of the working class and were clustered in:

the decreasing need for skilled work in factories.

An increase in child labor rates was related to:

lost ownership of large areas of lands.

During the 1840s, Hispanics living in California

the Pullman strike

Eugene Debs played a leading role in what labor event?

the U.S. Seventh Cavalry massacred two hundred Indians.

In 1890, at Wounded Knee, South Dakota,

fulfilled our divinely inspired manifest destiny as a nation

In The Significance of the Frontier in American History, Frederick Jackson Turner claimed that the experience of western expansion had done all of the following, except:

moved from initial acceptance of them to gradual opposition

In the 1840s and 1850s, in the Far West, the response by white Americans to the Chinese

banned Chinese in the United States from becoming naturalized citizens.

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

Silver

The Comstock Lode primarily produced

was viewed by the United States government as a plan to save the Indians.

The Dawes Act of 1887

helped inspire a growth of tourism in the West.

The Rocky Mountain School of painting

was expanded by the Timber Culture Act.

The Homestead Act of 1862

vertical integration.

The business structure of Carnegie Steel was a good example of

John D. Rockefeller

The head of Standard Oil was:

Abilene, Kansas

The town which reigned as the railhead of the cattle kingdom for many years was

the Yurok

Which tribe should NOT be included among the Plains Indians?

the Wright Brothers

_____ built and flew the first successful airplane.

Henry Bessemer

_____ developed a process for converting iron into the much more durable and versatile steel.

Individualism

______ provided a new rationale for capitalism, arguing that wealthy capitalists had earned their wealth and power through their own hard work and their acquisitiveness and thrift.