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Tennessee US History EOC Module 1 the Gilded Age and industrialization overview quiz quiz

18questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. The Compromise of 1877 is best described as an agreement that:

  2. Under the crop-lien system, Southern farmers often:

  3. In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court established the doctrine of:

  4. The Homestead Act of 1862 encouraged settlement of the West by:

  5. The first transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869 when two lines met at:

  6. Why was the near-destruction of the buffalo so devastating to Plains American Indians?

  7. The main purpose of the Dawes Act of 1887 was to:

  8. Which combination best explains the causes of rapid industrialization after the Civil War?

  9. Andrew Carnegie controlled the iron mines, the transport, and the mills that made steel. This strategy is called:

  10. A business that controls nearly all production of a good, eliminating competition, is a:

  11. The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was significant because it:

  12. Why did the author Mark Twain call the late 1800s the 'Gilded Age'?

  13. The Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883 reformed government by:

  14. Why did industrial workers form labor unions in this era?

  15. The Homestead (1892) and Pullman (1894) strikes both show that during the Gilded Age:

  16. Most 'new immigrants' arriving between 1880 and 1920 came from:

  17. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 is an example of:

  18. Jane Addams's Hull House in Chicago is best known as a: