1. Terms Review VII Expansion and Industrialization

2. What law abolished Native American tribes and gave each family 160 acres to farm? Dawes Act

3. Who was the owner of the steel monopoly? He also believed wealthy people needed to make society better. Andrew Carnegie

4. Who was the owner of Standard Oil Company? John D. Rockefeller

5. This term describes business owners who acquired monopolies through exploitation and ruthlessness. Robber Barons

6. What was the social movement which championed the causes of the oppressed in society? Progressive Movement

7. What amendment gave Congress the power to collect taxes on businesses and individuals? 16 th Amendment

8. What amendment allowed a state’s residents, not the state legislatures, to elect senators? 17 th Amendment

9. What amendment gave women the right to vote? 19 th Amendment

10. What amendment prohibited the making, selling, or transporting of alcoholic beverages? 18 th Amendment

11. What term refers to the separation of the races? Segregation

12. This organization was devoted to ending segregation, discrimination, and ensuring equal economic and political opportunities for blacks? NAACP

13. What does NAACP stand for? National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

14. What term refers to the flight of blacks from racial persecutions in the South to cities of the North and the West? Black Exodus

15. What act, passed in 1924, significantly reduced the number of immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe? It also prohibited immigration from Asia. National Origins Act

16. What term refers to a farming cooperative in which farmers pool their resources in the purchasing and selling of farm machinery and products? The Grange

17. This is the belief that only the strongest businesses, people, or nations deserve to survive. Social Darwinism

18. Who was the writer of children’s books which idealized gaining wealth through hard work? Horatio Alger

19. This was Andrew Carnegie’s idea that people with wealth had a responsibility to use it to help the poor. Gospel of Wealth

20. This term refers to when workers refuse to work until a set of conditions are met? Strike

21. Who was president from 1901-1909? He initiated progressive reforms in the fields of nature conservation and business. Theodore Roosevelt

22. What was the title of Upton Sinclair’s book exposing the bad working conditions and dangerous food quality in the meat processing industry? The Jungle

23. What cable was laid in 1866 that relayed messages from Europe to the United States and vice versa using the telegraph? Transatlantic Cable

24. Who was the founder of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama? He accepted segregation but pushed for equal economic opportunities for blacks. Booker T. Washington

25. Who was the student of Booker T. Washington who gained fame for his research with peanuts, soybeans, and cotton? George Washington Carver

26. What group of black intellectuals outlined an agenda for black progress that was adopted by the NAACP? The Niagara Movement

27. What Supreme Court decision allowed segregated facilities for blacks and whites? Plessy v. Ferguson

28. What act, passed in 1882, prohibited Chinese from legally immigrating to the United States? Chinese Exclusion Act

29. What term is used to describe when one company is the only supplier of a particular good or service? Monopoly

30. What term refers to parcels of land set aside by the federal government for the Native Americans? Reservation

31. What was the title of the book written by Ida Tarbell exposing the abuses of the Standard Oil Company? History of the Standard Oil Company

32. This man was a reformer and champion of coeducational, nonsectarian public education. Horace Mann

33. This movement was designed to address the concerns of farmers and other political reformers. Populist Movement

34. What term was used to describe intellectuals who wrote stories concerning the abuses of big businesses on workers and on consumers? Muckrakers

35. What President, elected in 1912, designed a reform program that ensured competition in the marketplace while keeping business out of the government’s control? Woodrow Wilson

36. What act passed in 1914 ensured that businesses could not use anti-trust laws to break up labor unions? Clayton Act

37. What federal agency was established in 1914 to investigate companies for unfair business practices? Federal Trade Commission

38. This school was established by Booker T. Washington. It was a school for blacks that provided training in the industrial and agricultural fields. Tuskegee Institute

39. Booker T. Washington’s speech at the Atlanta Exposition in 1895 that explained his philosophy of maintaining social separation of the races. Atlanta Compromise

40. Who was the black intellectual who opposed Booker T. Washington’s acceptance of segregation, a founder of the NAACP and editor of its magazine, The Crisis? W.E.B. Dubois

41. An author (muckraker) who exposed the abuses of the Standard Oil Company in her book The History of the Standard Oil Company. Ida Tarbell