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| 8602298348 | what were the factors that contributed to make the united states a mature industrial society? | abundant natural resources, growing supply of labor, an expanding market for manufactured goods, and the availability of capital investment. | 0 | |
| 8602343201 | what characterized the 2nd industrial revolution? | the rail road systems. spurred by private investment and massive grants of land and money by federal state, and local governments | 1 | |
| 8602362800 | by 1890 how did the majority of americans earn a living? | 2/3 worked for wages | 2 | |
| 8602391687 | what were the major industries that drove the 2nd industrial revolution? | 5 transcontinental lines transported the products of western mines, farms, ranches, and forests to eastern markets and carried manufactured goods to the west | 3 | |
| 8602448914 | why were time zones created? | operators of the new railroad lines needed a new time plan that would offer a uniform train schedule for departures and arrivals | 4 | |
| 8602492653 | what were pools and trusts? | p- divided up markets between supposedly competing firms and fixed prices. t- legal devices whereby the affairs of several rival companies were managed by a single director | 5 | |
| 8602542618 | who were andrew carnegie and john d. rocketfeller? what were their accomplishments? | ac- set out to establish a vertically integrated steel company. by the 1890s he dominated the steel company- most technologically advanced in the world jdr- rose to dominate the oil industry. began with horizontal expansion but then switched to vertical integration. controlled 90% of the nation's oil industry | 6 | |
| 8602797224 | how did the 2nd industrial revolution effect workers? | it created new forms of freedom. in some industries, skilled workers commanded high wages and exercised considerable control over the production process. semi skilled workers experienced economic insecurity and many lost their jobs or had to accept reduced pay | 7 | |
| 8602950170 | how did the 2nd industrial revolution effect the trans- mississippi west? | their "vast, trackless spaces" got absorbed into the expanding economy | 8 | |
| 8622957851 | what were bonanza farms? | covered thousands of acres and employed large numbers of agricultural wage workers | 9 | |
| 8623581547 | why did cowboys become important american symbols? | they were symbols of a life of freedom | 10 | |
| 8623591056 | what was the economic development of the west based on? | major manufacturing/ trade centers, tourism, railroad companies, oil, lumber, mining (large corporate enterprises) | 11 | |
| 8623635582 | who were the plain indians? | the cheyenne, comanche, crow, kiowa, sioux | 12 | |
| 8623648425 | who was chief joseph? | the Nez Perce leader, adopted the language of freedom and equal rights before the law so powerfully reinforced by the civil war and reconstruction, unsuccessfully petition successive presidents for his people's right to return to their beloved oregon homeland | 13 | |
| 8623737122 | what was little big horn? | location of the most famous indian victory in june 1876 when general george a. custer and hsi entire command of 250 men perished | 14 | |
| 8623779961 | how did the americans attempt to "civilize" and amercianize indians? | the bureau of indian affairs created boarding schools where they would take indian children away from their homes and dress them in non indian clothes, gave them new names, and educated them in white ways | 15 | |
| 8641751241 | what was the Dawes act of 1877? | broke up the land of nearly all tribes into small parcels to be distributed to indian families with the remainder auctioned off to white purchasers | 16 | |
| 8641798920 | what did the court rule in elk vs wilkins | the 14th and 15th amendments did not apply to the indians who did not leave the tribal setting and assimilated into the american society | 17 | |
| 8641932677 | what is a ghost dance? | religious revitalization campaign reminiscent of the pan indian movements. believed that there would be a day when whites would disappear, the buffalo would return, and the indians could once again practice their ancestral customs | 18 | |
| 8641987913 | what was the battle of wounded knee? | the indians ghost dance caused the government to fear an uprising so the gov sent troops to the reservations. on 12-29-1890 soldiers opened fire on ghost dancers near wounded knee creek in south dakota, killing 150-200 people | 19 | |
| 8642780250 | who was william m. tweed? | creator of the corrupt political machines which plundered the city into tens of millions of dollars | 20 |
