9. which of the following nineteenth-century inventors is associated with menlo park in new jersey?
a. gustavus f. swift
b. alexander graham bell
c. cyrus w. field
d. thomas alva edison
10. founded by oliver h. kelley, the organization that came to be known as the provided
educational, social, and cultural activities to its rural members.
a. farm guild
b. prairie alliance
c. okies
d. grange
11. in 1866, the sioux chief red cloud ambushed and massacred union soldiers in an incident that would
be referred to as the massacre.
a. wounded knee
b. chivrington
c. little big horn
d. fetterman12. which of the following statements is true regarding the construction of the transcontinental railway?
a. the sierra nevadas were the most difficult obstacle for the union pacific railroad.
b. construction began in omaha, nebraska, in 1863 and in sacramento, california, in 1865.
c. most workers for the union pacific railroad were chinese.
d. most workers on the central pacific leg of the railway were chinese.
13. the wade-davis bill passed by congress, then vetoed by lincoln, stipulated that percent of
voters in a confederate state must take an oath of future loyalty to the union before a process of
restoration could begin.
a. 70
b. 50
c. 10
d. 20
14. which of the following labor activists founded the american federation of labor?
a. terence powderly
b. uriah stephens
c. william sylvis
d. samuel gompers
which country lawyer from ashtabula, ohio, argued that criminals are not born, but are made by the
unjust condition of human life?
a. william graham sumner
b. clarence darrow
c. herbert spencer
d. washington gladden
16. in the later phases of the civil war, general running for president against lincoln,
declared that he would not make emancipation a condition of reconstruction.
a. longstreet
b. sherman
c. mcclellan
d. meade
17. if you were one of the new immigrants who arrived in america in the 1880s, it's most likely that you
would have been
a. irish and protestant.
b. italian and catholic.
c. swedish and protestant.
d. german and lutheran.
18. which of the following statements about john d. rockefeller is most accurate?
a. he founded the standard oil company when he was 24 years old.
b. he considered competition to be the central ideal of capitalism.
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c. he invented the concept of vertical integration.
d. he drilled the first oil well near titusville, pennsylvania.
19. in the election of 1860, the won the electoral votes of all the free states, except a fraction of
the new jersey votes.
a. republicans
b. constitutional union party
c. whigs
d. democrats
20. the national act of 1902, provided proceeds from the sale of public lands for the
construction of dams, canals, and irrigation systems in sixteen western states.
a. reclamation
b. recovery
c. land grant
d. development