2. Standard 11c Standard 12c Standard 12d Standard 13c Standard 13e 100 200 300 400 500 Final Jeopardy

3. What company did John D. Rockefeller form in 1870? Check Your Answer

4.  Standard Oil Company Back to Game Board

5.  Rockefeller used what method by bringing together many firms of the same business? Check Your Answer

6. Horizontal consolidation Back to Game Board

7.  What occurs when a company has complete control over a product or service? Check Your Answer

8. monopoly Back to Game Board

9.  What is the result of horizontal consolidation? Check Your Answer

10.  The company achieves maximum profit and creates a monopoly of the oil business Back to Game Board

11.  Who ran Standard Oil Company and the companies allied with it? Check Your Answer

12.  Board of Trustees Back to Game Board

13.  What did the Morill Land- Grant Act do? Check Your Answer

14.  give states western land Back to Game Board

15.  What was the Homestead Act? Check Your Answer

16.  allowed more than 372,000 farms to be created… for a small fee settlers could have 160 acres of land with some rules Back to Game Board

17.  What caused the Battle of Wounded Knee? Check Your Answer

18.  The Sioux were doing the ghost dance which promised a return to their traditional lives, the government thought they were becoming restless ; Calvary was sent in to provide protection for the government agents Back to Game Board

19. Whose arrest led to the death of more than 200 Sioux? Check Your Answer

20.  Sitting Bull Back to Game Board

21.  What was the last major episode of violence in the Indian Wars? Check Your Answer

22.  The Battle of Wounded Knee Back to Game Board

23.  Why were labor unions formed? Check Your Answer

24.  To help members by expressing workers demands to their employers for example – shorter work days, higher wages, better working conditions Back to Game Board

25.  How did workers attempt to have their demands met? Check Your Answer

26.  Going on strike Back to Game Board

27.  Who created a luxury sleeping car that was larger than regular train cars? Check Your Answer

28.  George Pullman Back to Game Board

29.  When Pullman laid off workers and cut salaries by 25%, how did the workers react? Check Your Answer

30.  Protested and Pullman refused to cooperate Back to Game Board

31.  How did the President handle the strike? Check Your Answer

32.  Sent in federal troops to make sure the workers obeyed a court order to end the strike Back to Game Board

33.  What impact did Jim Crow Laws have on African Americans? Check Your Answer

34.  Limited their rights by requiring segregation; African American facilities were almost always inferior. Back to Game Board

35.  Why did Homer Plessy argue his right of equal protection under the laws was being violated? Check Your Answer

36.  Because segregation was required in the seating on a train Back to Game Board

37.  What was the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson? Check Your Answer

38. Separate facilities are legal as long as the facilities are equal to the facilities provided to the whites Back to Game Board

39.  What was formed to abolish segregation and discrimination? Check Your Answer

40.  NAACP Back to Game Board

41.  When was the NAACP formed? Check Your Answer

42.  After a white social worker organized a national conference Back to Game Board

43.  What is initiative? Check Your Answer

44.  a process in which citizens can put a proposed new law directly on the ballot in the next election by collecting voters’ signatures on a petition Back to Game Board

45.  What allows voters to remove public officials from office before the next election? Check Your Answer

46.  Recall Back to Game Board

47.  What types of reforms were made of labor laws? Check Your Answer

48.  limits on child labor  The number of work hours in a day  Minimum wages  Working conditions Back to Game Board

49.  What is a process that allows approving or rejecting a law passed by their legislature? Check Your Answer

50.  referendum Back to Game Board

51.  What is direct election of senators? Check Your Answer

52.  an election in which citizens vote to directly elect their senators Back to Game Board

54.  Why did large employers dislike and fear unions? Check Your Answer

55.  They wanted to work with employees as individuals.  They feared paying higher wages and meeting other demands would cause their costs to go up and they would not be as competitive in the market.