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American History Semester Exam Study Guide

American History Semester Exam Study Guide. States and Capitals. States and Capitals. States and Capitals. States and Capitals. States and Capitals. Which state joined the Union in 1876?. The Central Pacific relied on workers who were.

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American History Semester Exam Study Guide

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  1. American HistorySemester ExamStudy Guide

  2. States and Capitals

  3. States and Capitals

  4. States and Capitals

  5. States and Capitals

  6. States and Capitals

  7. Which state joined the Union in 1876?

  8. The Central Pacific relied on workers who were

  9. Who customarily wore wide-brimmed hats, chaps, and lariats?

  10. What is it called when thousands of cattle run in panic?

  11. The Indian Peace Commission recommended that native Americans be

  12. Who was the Civil War veteran defeated by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse?

  13. The last Native American to surrender formally to the United States was

  14. Using machine guns, United States soldiers killed more than 300 starving Lakota men,women, and children at

  15. The network of farmers' self-help organizations eventually came to be called the

  16. A symbol that marks ownership burned into the hide of cattle is called

  17. What was one approach of the sodbusters?

  18. Texas ranches that were not fenced in or divided into lots were

  19. What nomadic Plains nation followed the buffalo?

  20. What did Wovoka, a prophet, claim would restore the Sioux to their greatness?

  21. Based on the graph, it can be said that between 1850 and 1890 the Native American population _______________.

  22. Based on the diagram, which of the following was a goal of the Grange?

  23. The fast-growing national rail system encouraged the expansion of the

  24. The practice of combining separate companies in an industry is called a

  25. The inventor of the railroad sleeping car was

  26. Who linked the United States and Europe with a transatlantic telegraph line?

  27. Which inventor's most important invention was the electric light bulb?

  28. Whose shoe-making machine performed many steps previously done by hand?

  29. Who was the steel company owner who was a great philanthropist?

  30. The combining of companies is called

  31. In 1886, a group of national trade unions formed the

  32. The United States Attorney General Richard Olney ordered an injunction to stop the

  33. The steelworkers' union dwindled after the failure of the

  34. Railroad barons were created because the industry

  35. Who invented the telephone?

  36. Whose electric power plant lit up 85 buildings in New York City?

  37. Who took Edison's work a step further by developing transformers?

  38. Who pioneered the assembly line?

  39. What led to the creation of a multimillion-dollar petroleum industry?

  40. Who was the philanthropist who built more than 2,000 libraries worldwide?

  41. Child-labor laws did not apply to what industry, which employed about 1 million children?

  42. Antilabor feeling grew after the bloody clash in Chicago called the

  43. This quotation describes the new _____.

  44. When his assistant heard these words, Bell had _____ transmitted the sound of the human voice through electrical wires for the first time.

  45. Based on the time line, how many terms did Theodore Roosevelt serve as United States president?

  46. Powerful nations creating large empires by exercising economic and political control over weaker regions is called___. A. expansionism. C. isolationism. B. civilization. D. imperialism.

  47. Imperialism was driven by the search for ___. A. land. C. materials and markets. B. gold. D. new trade routes.

  48. Who pictured a canal across Central America linking the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean? A. Matthew Perry B. William H. Seward C. James G. Blaine D. Alfred Thayer Mahan

  49. The United States purchased Alaska from Russia for ___. A. $100 million. C. $3.5 million. B. $10. D. $7.2 million.

  50. Who was responsible for establishing the Pan-American Union? James G. Blaine B. William H. Seward C. Alfred Thayer Mahan D. Matthew Perry

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