Practice Quiz Gilded Age
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- Q1Who were the two companies that built the railroad, Central Pacific and?Union PacificPennsylvaniaShort LineReading30sEditDelete
- Q2What was completed on May 10, 1869 at Promontory Point, Utah?The Light BulbThe first MarathonFirst U.S. Transcontinental RailroadThe first Sewer System30sEditDelete
- Q3What was considered “green gold” in the 1800's?green paper with pink ink4 leaf cloverstreesmoss30sEditDelete
- Q4Approximately how many buffalo were roaming the Great Plains in the 1800’s?a gazillion100 trillionone thousand30 million30sEditDelete
- Q5What invention threatened the cowboy’s way of life and ended the Open Range?the light bulbthe telephonebarbed wirepace picante sauce30sEditDelete
- Q6Where do most Indians wind up living as settlers moved west?reservationsplantationsnational parksoil fields30sEditDelete
- Q7He developed a mail order catalog, utilizing mail and railroads to ship goods.Richard SearsGeorge CusterWild Bill HickockThomas Edison30sEditDelete
- Q8Battle where Lt. Col. George Custer and his men were killedPicacho PeakAlamoWounded KneeLittle Big Horn30sEditDelete
- Q9Where 7th Cavalry massacred 200 Sioux and Cheyenne men, women, and children.Bull RunWounded KneePicacho PeakLittle Big Horn30sEditDelete
- Q10What country gave the Statue of Liberty to the United States?GermanyEnglandFranceRome30sEditDelete
- Q11Who organized the fund raiser to pay for the assembly of the Statue of Liberty?Joseph PulitzerTeddy RooseveltWilliam HurstHorace Greelee30sEditDelete
- Q12Where did most immigrants arrive as they entered the United States on the east coast?Niagara FallsFort LauderdaleJuarezEllis Island30sEditDelete
- Q13Who used the Bessemer Steel Process that blasts hot air through molten iron to produce steel in Pittsburgh, PA?Dan MarinoBen RoethlisbergerAndrew CarnegieHonus Wagner30sEditDelete
- Q14What was one breakthrough that allowed buildings to grow so tall?elevatorzepplinsstairswifi30sEditDelete
- Q15Famous Photographer who showed the desperation of life in the slums of America.Ansel AdamsThomas EdisonRobert FrankJacob Riis30sEditDelete
- Q16What was the nickname given to the Greenwood neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma?AlpineBlack Wall streetDivision AvenueWhite Wall Street30sEditDelete
- Q17Nickname for the group Led by Col. George Waring, sanitation workers who cleaned up the streets of NYC.purple horseshoesred raiderswhite ducksblue diamonds30sEditDelete
- Q18Who invented the light bulb?Jacob RiisGeorge CusterThomas EdisonGeorge Waring30sEditDelete
- Q19What material finally worked as a filament for the light bulb?hot cheetoscarbonized cardboardsolid goldhuman hair30sEditDelete
- Q20What problem was created when people worked in the tall buildings of cities?where to put the restroomshow many windows are allowedescaping when fire breaks outwhere to drink your coffee30sEditDelete