5 Written Questions

1. driving force of the Gr. Northern Railway , Became a Shipping Agent For Winnipeg Merchants Nicknamed the "Empire Builder"
2. (philosophy) the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations
3. reservation that got a yearly payment and got tricked by american traders
4. costs that occur while running a company
5. 100,000 workers rioted in Chicago. After the police fired into the crowd, the workers met and rallied in Haymarket Square to protest police brutality. A bomb exploded, killing or injuring many of the police. The Chicago workers and the man who set the bomb were immigrants, so the incident promoted anti-immigrant feelings.

5 Matching Questions

1. Women's Trade Union League
2. Black Kettle
3. Tammany Hall
4. Charles W. Macune
5. vertical integration

1. a a political organization within the Democratic Party in New York city (late 1800's and early 1900's) seeking political control by corruption and bossism
2. b assumed leadership of alliance movement; merged several groups into Southern Alliance
3. c leader of the Cheyenne who were massascred at Sand Creek
4. d a U.S. organization of both working class and more well-off women formed in 1903 to support the efforts of women to organize labor unions and to eliminate sweatshop conditions
5. e absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in all aspects of a product's manufacture from raw materials to distribution

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Strike where railway workers had 10% of their wages cut, in the midst of a depression, and refused to work. President Rutherford B. Hayes sent in federal troops and forced employees to begin working again.
   1. The Long Drive
   2. Great Plains
   3. Great railroad strike of 1877
   4. gross national product
2. He led the Dakota in The Great Sioux Uprising in Minnesota, 1862.
   1. Little Crow
   2. Push Factor
   3. EDITH WHARTON
   4. silverites
3. United States financier who accumulated great wealth from railroad and shipping businesses (1794-1877)
   1. commercial farming
   2. Angel island
   3. collective bargaining
   4. Cornelius Vanderbilt
4. He wrote Progress and Poverty in 1879, which made him famous as an opponent of the evils of modern capitalism.
   1. Wheat Bel
   2. HENRY GEORGE
   3. Red Cloud
   4. Party Boss
5. absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level
   1. horizontal integration
   2. Booker T. Washington
   3. HORATIO ALGER
   4. Helen Hunt Jackson

5 True/False Questions

1. trusts → Firms or corporations that combine for the purpose of reducing competition and controlling prices (establishing a monopoly). There are anti-trust laws to prevent these monopolies.

   True        False

2. Sitting Bull → a political organization within the Democratic Party in New York city (late 1800's and early 1900's) seeking political control by corruption and bossism

   True        False

3. Credit Mobilier → Scandalous company created by Union Pacific Railroad insiders, it distributed shares of its stock to Congressmen to avoid detection

   True        False

4. American Protective Association → Proposed creating 2 large reservations on the Plains, one for the Sioux & another for the Plains Indians

   True        False

5. Halfbreeds → a person who is loyal to their allegiance (especially in times of revolt)

   True        False