Unit 7 Social Studies Test
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 19th amendment | gave women the right to vote |
| Boomtowns | A town that grew in mining areas where there were rushes. These usually didn't last because the gold usually ran out, or there was no gold at all. |
| James Garfield | The president who got shot shortly after taking office. |
| Terence V. Powderly | leader of the Knights of Labor |
| Fort Laramie Treaty | First major agreement between U.S. officials and plains indians. |
| Bonanza | a large find of precious ore |
| Exodusters | African Americans who settled in the western lands in the late 1800's. |
| 18th amendment | outlawed the production and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States |
| patent | Exclusive right to manufacture or sell an invention. |
| free coinage | Type of monetary system in which both gold and silver money was coined. |
| mugwumps | Republican reformers who were upset with political corruption. |
| Louis Brandeis | The first Jewish person appointed to the Supreme Court. |
| Which group used such tactics as picketing, hunger strikes, and civil disobedience in its campaign for women's rights? | National Woman's Party |
| Bessemer Process... | Less expensive, easy way to make steel developed by British inventor Henry Bessemer in the 1850s. |
| Dry Farming... | Method of farming taught by Hardy Campbell to Great Plains farmers in the 1890s, that allowed farmers to grow crops with less water. |
| In Lochner v. New York , the Supreme Court ... | Ruled that states could not restrict ordinary workers' hours. |
| What type of organization was formed by immigrant communities to help others in case of sickness, unemployment, or death? | Benevolent societies |
| Range rights... | rights to water sources on the Great Plains; ranchers bought these rights to give them exclusive control of both the water and the land around it. |
| What did Rutherford B. hayes, James Garfield, and Chester Arthur have in common? | They brought about sweeping civil service reforms. |
| In collective bargaining, unions.... | negotiate with factory owners on behalf of workers in a particular business or industry for better wages and working conditions. |
| Which state was not a site of the Gold Rush? | Arizona |
| Which Union leader organized strikes to defend the rights of Virginia miners? | Mary "Mother" Jones |
| True of False: The Ghost Dance is a religous movement that spread across the plains. | True |
| True or False: The 2nd industrial revolution was a time when growth in new technology and manufacturing stabalizes. | False |
| True or False: The Peddleton Civil Act established a merit system to award goverment jobs. | True |
| True or False: Members of the American Railway union supported the Pullman Strike by refusing to work on trains carrying Pullman cars. | True |
| True or False: Ida Tarbell wrote a series of articles describing the unfair practices of the Standard Oil Company. | True |
| True or False: Along with women and African Americans, American Indians, Chinese Americans, and Mexican Americans benefitted from the reforms of the progressive era. | False |
| progressives | a group of reformers in the late 1800s, who began working to improve society |
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