Name: ______U.S. History; Expansion and Reform Test
I. Matching: place the correct matching letter in the first column
1. people who search for gold and silver2. a red handkerchief worn around the neck to protect from dust and cold gave rise to this name
3. A law applied to certain immigrants by Americans who did not want non-white immigrants in the USA
4. Native Americans were made by the United States government to live on these
5. Wovoka prophesied that this would bring back the old way of life
6. A 70 year old ex-slave led his people to the West where they settled and were called by this term
7. He merged the steel and railroad industries and made millions
8. He was the head of Standard Oil
9. 160 acres and it’s yours’ if you live there for 5 years
10. The richest silver mine in the world
11. Seward’s folly
12. Railway traffic comes to a stop because of this action by angry rail workers
13. pioneers farming on the Plains lived in these
14. The way iron is made into steel
15. the unfenced in Plains used for cattle ranching
16. the last place of bloody resistance to the white man
17. The general who was killed at Little Big Horn
18. The place where the Union Pacific and the Central Union railroads met
19. Corruption and bribery
20. Invented the telephone
21. Invented the light bulb
22. someone who was born in the USA and did not want anyone immigrating here
23. Type of cattle that were driven to market on the cattle drives
24. the first car
25. took steers northward on the long drive to railroad centers
26. were the most permanent settlers and used barbed wire
27. entry point for many immigrants to the USA
28. Newly elected officials would discharge 1000’s of officeholders and replace them with their political favorites
29. Made illegal all “contracts or trusts that tried to limit trade.”
30. Merge many corporations into one in an attempt to increase profits.
31. unhappy farmers who were angry at the railroads
32. Man who invented sleeper railway cars
33. Example of a political boss in New York city
34. Act in 1887 that regulated the commerce on railroads and stopped some of their abuses
35. organization that farmers created and joined to help them fight big business
36. created the AFL (American Federation of Labor) the first union
37. Miss D’s grandparents who came from Norway to the USA were called this term
38. term used to describe the railroad system the ran from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean and opened the West
39. The President whose administration was full of scandals, corruption, graft, kickbacks
40. The Native Americans in the Plains lived off this food source that was almost made extinct by white men
41. People who did not study for this test / a) Open range
b) Sod houses
c) Horseless carriage
d) Bessemer Process
e) Trust
f) Pullman strike
g) Carnegie
h) Rockefeller
i) Farmers
j) William Tweed
k) Graft
l) Homestead Act
m) Promontory, Utah
n) Exodusters
o) Comstock Lode
p) buffalo
q) Cowboys
r) The Grange
s) Spoils system
t) Miners
u) Pullman
v) Transcontinental
w) Custer
x) Mr.Gompers
y) Ellis Island
z) Interstate Commerce
aa) Populist Party
bb) Grant
cc) Wounded Knee
dd) Pullman Strike
ee) Alaska
ff) Immigrants
gg) Red neck
hh) Barbed wire
ii) Dodge City
jj) Bell
kk) Edison
ll) Morse
mm) Reservation
mm) Chinese Exclusion
Act
nn)Long horns
oo) Sherman Antitrust
Act
pp) nativist
qq) outlaws and desperados
II. Essay (10 points):
Describe in an essay how the West became what it is today by telling this reader how the farmers settling the West, immigrants, pioneers, steel, the cattle boom, the railroads, the miners and mining discoveries, the Native American troubles, the almost extinction of the buffalo, and other discoveries and inventions impacted on the open Plains and changed it forever. Use at least four words from the above word bank to write your essay.