5 Written Questions

1. "Populist Party"
   National political party formed in 1892 that supported a graduated income tax, bank regulation, government ownership of some companies, restriction on immigration, shorter workdays, and voting reform
2. Movement by Protestant ministers in the late 1800s that applied Christian principles to social problems
3. By the summer of 1897, Yukon miners had extracted gold worth more than $1 million. Gold discoveries in Alaska in 1898 and 1902 attracted even more settlers.
4. Union founded in 1886 by Samuel Gompers for skilled workers.
5. Assassin of President Garfield.
   Mentally unstable man who didn't get a government job

5 Matching Questions

1. Wovoka
2. Sherman Anti-Trust Act
3. Monopoly
4. William H. Seward
5. Vaudeville

1. a U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward negotiated the purchase of Alaska in 1867. Seward believed the price, which came out to less than two cents an acre, was a good deal.
2. b Law that prohibited monopolies and trusts that restrained trade.
3. c "Light play"
   Type of variety show that featured a wide selection of short performances
4. d Exclusive economic control of an industry
5. e A Paiute, Wovoka began a religious movement known as the Ghost Dance.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Style of sensational reporting used by newspapers to attract readers
   1. Yellow Journalism
   2. Social Darwinism
   3. Elisha Otis
   4. Geronimo
2. permitted "any citizen or intended citizen to select any surveyed land up to 160 acres and to gain title to it after five years' residence" if the person cultivated the land.
   1. Steerage
   2. Homestead Act
   3. Jane Addams
   4. Comstock Lode
3. Developed a mechanized elevator that allowed people to move things up and down more easily
   1. Jane Addams
   2. Stalwarts
   3. Navajo
   4. Elisha Otis
4. System in which the rate of taxation varies according to income
   1. Sarah Winnemuca
   2. Gilded Age
   3. Ragtime
   4. Graduated Income Tax
5. Poor accommodations in a ship's lower levels; many immigrants to the united States traveled in this space
   1. Trust
   2. Graft
   3. Steerage
   4. Suburbs

5 True/False Questions

1. Settlement Houses → Efficient method of making steel; developed by British inventor Henry Bessemer and American William Kelly in the 1850s.

   True        False

2. Chief Joseph → leader of Nez Percé tribe

   True        False

3. Comstock Lode → permitted "any citizen or intended citizen to select any surveyed land up to 160 acres and to gain title to it after five years' residence" if the person cultivated the land.

   True        False

4. Stalwarts → Republicans in the late 1800s who opposed reform

   True        False

5. Suburbs → "Big Chiefs"
   referred to Republican reformers who supported Democrat Grover Cleveland in the presidential election of 1884

   True        False