Chapter 16: The Gilded Age

In the nineteenth century, pools, trusts, and mergers were:

ways that manufacturers sought to control the marketplace.

Which event marked the end of the Indian wars?

Battle of Wounded Knee.

The massive hunting of what animal hurt the Plains Indians?

Buffalo

Chief Joseph:

wanted freedom for his people, the Nez Percé.

After the Civil War, which of the following became a symbol of a life of freedom on the open range?

Cowboys

The Ghost Dance:

was a religious revitalization campaign among Indians, feared by whites.

The first billion-dollar enterprise corporation was:

U.S. Steel.

Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller:

built up giant corporations that dominated their respective markets.

The Social Gospel:

called for an equalization of wealth and power.

The Dawes Act of 1887:

divided tribal lands into parcels of land for Indian families.

Thomas Edison:

invented, among other things, a system for generating and distributing electricity.

The Indian victory at Little Bighorn:

only temporarily delayed the advance of white settlement.

The __________ made possible the second industrial revolution in America.

railroads

The theory of Social Darwinism argued that:

the theory of evolution applied to humans, thus explaining why some were rich and some were poor.

Bonanza farms:

typically had thousands of acres of land or more.