The national government helped to finance transcontinental railroad construction in the late nineteenth century by providing railroad corporations with:

Match each railroad company below with the correct entrepreneur: A. James J. Hill 1. Central Pacific B. Cornelius Vanderbilt 2. New York Central C. Leland Stanford 3. Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe 4. Great Northern

The only transcontinental railroad built without government aid was the

The United States changed to standard time zones when

The first federal regulatory agency designed to protect the public interest from business combinations was the

Match each entrepreneur below with the field of enterprise with which he is historically identified. A. Andrew Carnegie 1. Steel B. John D. Rockefeller 2. Oil C. J. Pierpoint Morgan 3. Tobacco D. James Duke 4. Banking

The steel industry owed much to the inventive genius of

The first major product of the oil industry was

The oil industry became a huge business

The gospel of wealth, which associated godliness with wealth,

The ______________Amendment was especially helpful to giant corporations when defending themselves against regulation by state governments.

During the age of industrialization, the South

The South’s major attraction for potential investors was:

One of the greatest changes that industrialization brought about in the lives of workers was

The most effective and most enduring labor union of the post-Civil War period was the

Historians critical of the captains of industry and capitalism concede that class-based protest has never been a powerful force in the United States because

(Extra Credit) No random guessing, an incorrect answer here is 1/2 a point off the quiz overall. Who was president of the United States in 1889?

(Extra Credit) No random guessing, an incorrect answer here is 1/2 a point off the quiz overall. Who was president of the United States in 1878?

(Extra Credit) No random guessing, an incorrect answer here is 1/2 a point off the quiz overall. Who was president of the United States in 1873?

(Extra Credit) No random guessing, an incorrect answer here is 1/2 a point off the quiz overall. Who was president of the United States in 1881?

The major factor in drawing country people off the farms and into the big cities was:

The New Immigrants who came to the United States after 1880

Most Italian immigrants to the United States between 1880 and 1920 came to escape

Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution

Booker T. Washington believed that the key to political and civil rights for African-Americans was

Black leader Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois

During the industrial revolution, life expectancy

American newspapers expanded their circulation and public attention by

In the decades after the Civil War, changes in sexual attitudes and practices were reflected in all of the following except:

General Lewis Wallace’s book Ben Hur

The Morill Act of 1862

The early settlement house workers such as Jane Addams and Florence Kelly, helped to blaze the professional trail for

Americans offered growing support for a free public education system

In the decades after the Civil War, college education for women