1807NRS EOT CERTIFICATION EVALUATION EXAMS
Questions with Correct Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: Sells Land.
Answer: Pacific Railway Act
Question 2: The government gives you land as long as you utilize it.
Answer: Homestead Act
Question 3: How did the railroad affect the country.
Answer: Helped create a national market
Question 4: Attempted to assimilate Native Americans into American society by dividing farming land
and giving it to individual families.
Answer: Dawes Severality Act
Question 5: What are the factors of production?
Answer:
1. Land
2. Labor
3. Capitol
4. Technology
5. Entrepreneurship
Question 6: How the government encouraged economic growth
Answer: National bank provided capitol Expansion to the west through land grant systems provided natural
resources Native American threat was removed Supreme court upheld contracts and regulated interstate
commerce.
Question 7: Who am I? Dominated the oil industry using horizontal integration.
Answer: John D. Rockefeller
Question 8: Who am I? Dominated the steel industry using vertical integration.
Answer: Andrew Carnegie
Question 9: Who am I? Dominated the railroad industry.
Answer: Cornelius Vanderbilt
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,Question 10: Purchase of companies at all levels of production.
Answer: Vertical Integration
Question 11: Purchase of competing companies in same industry.
Answer: Horizontal Integration
Question 12: created to break up the monopolies that big businesses had formed. When you have
unchallenged competition it leads to economic uncertainty and periodic depressions. Eventually the
public will call for government regulation.
Answer: Sherman Anti- trust Act
Question 13: Survival of the fittest applied to businesses.
Answer: Social Darwinism
Question 14: Government hands off.
Answer: Laissez-Faire
Question 15: Wrote rags to riches stories.
Answer: Horatio Alger
Question 16: What are rags to riches stories?
Answer: Feel good stories
Question 17: Improvements in standard living.
Answer: New invention
Question 18: Because farmers were not experiencing prosperity, they tried to organize politically for a
change. Attempted to regulate how much the railroad could charge for transport.
Answer: The Granger Laws
Question 19: Populists called for a national income tax cheaper money (what populists called "free
silver") shorter workdays, single-term limits for presidents, immigration restrictions, and government
control of railroads.
Answer: The populist Party
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, Question 20: Most Americans looked down on labor unions during this era.
Answer: Organized Labor
Question 21: McKinley won the election, effectively killing free silver and the populist movement.
Answer: The election of 1896
Question 22: These were for skilled workers that were harder to replace.
Answer: Craft Unions
Question 23: Changes brought by industrialization and Urbanization.
Answer:
1. Overcrowded
2. No safety codes
3. Sickness
4. Long hours little pay
5. Dangerous conditions
Question 24: Who exposed problems in society?
Answer: Muckrakers
Question 25: Who is Upton Sinclair?
Answer: Wrote "The Jungle"
Question 26: What amendment gave women the right to vote?
Answer: 19th Amendment
Question 27: Why did the progressive era develop?
Answer: City and workplace problems
Question 28: Who am I? Annexed Hawaii DeLome Letter Remember the maine Spanish-American
War Teller Amendment Treaty of paris Platt amendment.
Answer: William Mckinley
Question 29: Who am I? Bully Pulpit Insular Cases Columbian Revolution Great white fleet "Big
Stick".
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt
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Questions with Correct Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: Sells Land.
Answer: Pacific Railway Act
Question 2: The government gives you land as long as you utilize it.
Answer: Homestead Act
Question 3: How did the railroad affect the country.
Answer: Helped create a national market
Question 4: Attempted to assimilate Native Americans into American society by dividing farming land
and giving it to individual families.
Answer: Dawes Severality Act
Question 5: What are the factors of production?
Answer:
1. Land
2. Labor
3. Capitol
4. Technology
5. Entrepreneurship
Question 6: How the government encouraged economic growth
Answer: National bank provided capitol Expansion to the west through land grant systems provided natural
resources Native American threat was removed Supreme court upheld contracts and regulated interstate
commerce.
Question 7: Who am I? Dominated the oil industry using horizontal integration.
Answer: John D. Rockefeller
Question 8: Who am I? Dominated the steel industry using vertical integration.
Answer: Andrew Carnegie
Question 9: Who am I? Dominated the railroad industry.
Answer: Cornelius Vanderbilt
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,Question 10: Purchase of companies at all levels of production.
Answer: Vertical Integration
Question 11: Purchase of competing companies in same industry.
Answer: Horizontal Integration
Question 12: created to break up the monopolies that big businesses had formed. When you have
unchallenged competition it leads to economic uncertainty and periodic depressions. Eventually the
public will call for government regulation.
Answer: Sherman Anti- trust Act
Question 13: Survival of the fittest applied to businesses.
Answer: Social Darwinism
Question 14: Government hands off.
Answer: Laissez-Faire
Question 15: Wrote rags to riches stories.
Answer: Horatio Alger
Question 16: What are rags to riches stories?
Answer: Feel good stories
Question 17: Improvements in standard living.
Answer: New invention
Question 18: Because farmers were not experiencing prosperity, they tried to organize politically for a
change. Attempted to regulate how much the railroad could charge for transport.
Answer: The Granger Laws
Question 19: Populists called for a national income tax cheaper money (what populists called "free
silver") shorter workdays, single-term limits for presidents, immigration restrictions, and government
control of railroads.
Answer: The populist Party
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, Question 20: Most Americans looked down on labor unions during this era.
Answer: Organized Labor
Question 21: McKinley won the election, effectively killing free silver and the populist movement.
Answer: The election of 1896
Question 22: These were for skilled workers that were harder to replace.
Answer: Craft Unions
Question 23: Changes brought by industrialization and Urbanization.
Answer:
1. Overcrowded
2. No safety codes
3. Sickness
4. Long hours little pay
5. Dangerous conditions
Question 24: Who exposed problems in society?
Answer: Muckrakers
Question 25: Who is Upton Sinclair?
Answer: Wrote "The Jungle"
Question 26: What amendment gave women the right to vote?
Answer: 19th Amendment
Question 27: Why did the progressive era develop?
Answer: City and workplace problems
Question 28: Who am I? Annexed Hawaii DeLome Letter Remember the maine Spanish-American
War Teller Amendment Treaty of paris Platt amendment.
Answer: William Mckinley
Question 29: Who am I? Bully Pulpit Insular Cases Columbian Revolution Great white fleet "Big
Stick".
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt
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