U.S. History 6.19.W - Lesson: American Economic Expansion Review

Which of the following inventions are attributed to Thomas A. Edison? [4 Things.]

1. The motion picture camera 2.The phonograph 3.The storage battery 4. The electric motor

According to the lesson, approximately how many African Americans traveled to Northern cities between 1890 and 1910?

300,000

According to the lesson, which of the following was the most important ingredient to the rise of big business?

A growing population and the availability of cheap labor

Which of the following best describes laissez-faire economics, which was an important government policy during the Gilded Age?

Government generally did not interfere with business.

Which of the following best describes the provisions of the Contract Labor Act of 1864?

It allowed private businesses to pay for an immigrant's passage to the United States.

Beginning in 1866, Texas cowboys would move cattle north more than 1,000 miles in order to bring them to market. This annual ritual became known as the __________ __________.

Long Drive

Which of the following individuals was the first to refer to the 35 years between the Civil War and the end of the 19th century as the Gilded Age?

Mark Twain

Which of the following is NOT a natural resource that helped to contribute to the industrial and economic boom of the Gilded Age?

Petroleum

_____________ mining, which was sometimes called lode or hard-rock mining, required the construction of tunnels and pumps to remove water from underground caverns.

Quartz

Between 1860 and 1920, the United States accepted 28 million immigrants. Most of these immigrants came from which of the following parts of the world?

Southern and Eastern Europe

According to the lesson, which of the following was NOT caused by the expansion of railroad networks?

Train equipment remained unstandardized.

According to the lesson, which of the following best describes a stock?

Units that represent part ownership of a company sold in order to raise revenue

What was the name given to Mexican cowboys during the time of the cattle drives?

Vaqueros

According to the lesson, the push and pull factors that led many Americans to migrate to cities were primarily ____________ in nature.

economic

What was the name of the mining technique that used high-pressure water cannons to break away hillsides to reveal valuable minerals?

hydraulic mining

The market for beef in the early nineteenth century was underwhelming, but Texans still maintained cattle ranches for________________ and ________________ , animal fat used in the production of candles and soap.

leather and tallow

Thomas Edison's invention of the electric ___________________ was particularly useful in industrial settings, because if freed factories from reliance on rivers or coal to supply energy, allowing them to be located almost anywhere.

motor

Massive migration to cities saw the rise of densely populated sections of those cities called _________, where disease and poverty were rampant.

slums

The railroad industry created standardized__________ zones that we still use today.

time

Which of the following best describes the predominant social make-up of most boom towns?

young, single men