US HISTORY STAAR EOC 11TH
US HISTORY STAAR EOC 11TH GRADE ACTUAL
RETAKE EXAM WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 2025
Gilded Age -Correct Answer ✔1870s - 1890s; time period looked good on the outside,
despite the corrupt politics and growing gap between the rich and poor
Technological (Second Industrial) Revolution -Correct Answer ✔based on steel,
railroads, electricity, oil-based products
Alexander Graham Bell -Correct Answer ✔He was an American inventor who was
responsible for developing the telephone.
Thomas Edison -Correct Answer ✔American inventor best known for inventing the
electric light bulb, acoustic recording on wax cylinders, and motion pictures.
Telephone -Correct Answer ✔A device that converts sound into electrical signals that
can be transmitted over distances. Invented by Alexander Graham Bell.
Free Enterprise System -Correct Answer ✔An economic system in which people are
free to operate their businesses as they see fit, with little government interference.
Laissez-Faire -Correct Answer ✔No government intervention in business.
Corporation -Correct Answer ✔A business that is owned by many investors.
Bessemer Process -Correct Answer ✔A process for making steel more efficiently,
patented in 1856.
Entrepreneurship -Correct Answer ✔Accepting the risk of starting and running a
business.
Monopoly -Correct Answer ✔A market in which there are many buyers but only one
seller.
Andrew Carnegie -Correct Answer ✔A business man that increased his power through
by gaining control of the many different businesses that make up all phases of steel
production development.
John Rockefeller -Correct Answer ✔Creator of the Standard Oil Company who made a
fortune on it and joined with competing companies in trust agreements that in other
words made an amazing monopoly.
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Robber Baron -Correct Answer ✔a negative term for business leaders that implied they
built their fortunes by stealing from the public
Captain of Industry -Correct Answer ✔business leader who has a positive impact
Philanthropy -Correct Answer ✔Giving money to help the poor
Political Machines -Correct Answer ✔Corrupt organized groups that controlled political
parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his
party.
Political Boss -Correct Answer ✔representative for or head of the political machine;
gained votes for their parties by doing favors for people.
Immigration -Correct Answer ✔Coming to live permanently in a foreign country
Push and Pull Factors -Correct Answer ✔The push factor involves a force which acts to
drive people away from a place and the pull factor is what draws them to a new location.
Nativists -Correct Answer ✔U.S. citizens who opposed immigration because they were
suspicious of immigrants and feared losing jobs to them
Ethnic Ghettos -Correct Answer ✔immigrants lived here due to cultural similarities,
especially in big cities
Child Labor -Correct Answer ✔Children were viewed as laborers throughout the 19th
century. Many children worked on farms, small businesses, mills and factories.
Labor Union -Correct Answer ✔An organization of workers that tries to improve working
conditions, wages, and benefits for its members
Strikes -Correct Answer ✔times when workers refuse to work until owners improve
conditions
Knights of Labor -Correct Answer ✔1st effort to create National union. Open to
everyone but lawyers and bankers. Vague program, no clear goals, weak leadership
and organization. Failed
Haymarket Massacre -Correct Answer ✔Was when there was a peaceful protest at the
the Haymarket square and a bomb was thrown at the police and the police started
shooting at innocent people
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AFL (American Federation of Labor) -Correct Answer ✔A labor union created by
Samuel Gompers that was the ONLY labor union that only accepted skilled workers
Samuel Gompers -Correct Answer ✔He was the creator of the American Federation of
Labor. He provided a stable and unified union for skilled workers
IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) -Correct Answer ✔A labor organization for
unskilled workers, formed by a group of radical unionists and socialists in 1905.
Sometimes called Wobblies
Manifest Destiny -Correct Answer ✔A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans
that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific.
Westward Migration -Correct Answer ✔the movement of people to the western and mid-
western states to find new opportunities (ex. jobs, land, and gold).
Homestead Act -Correct Answer ✔1862 - provided free land in the west as long as the
person would settle there and make improvements in five years
Transcontinental Railroad -Correct Answer ✔Completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah, it
linked the eastern railroad system with California's railroad system, revolutionizing
transportation in the west
Great Plains -Correct Answer ✔A mostly flat and grassy region of western North
America
Frontier -Correct Answer ✔a wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country
Klondike Gold Rush -Correct Answer ✔a frenzy of gold rush immigration to and for gold
prospecting, along the Klondike River near Dawson City, Yukon, Canada after gold was
discovered there in the late 19th century.
Indian Wars -Correct Answer ✔1850 to 1890; series of conflicts between the US Army /
settlers and different Native American tribes
Reservations -Correct Answer ✔areas of federal land set aside for American Indians
Dawes Act -Correct Answer ✔1887 law which gave all Native American males 160
acres to farm and also set up schools to make Native American children more like other
Americans
New Immigration -Correct Answer ✔Immigrants from Southern and Eastern European
countries and Asia arriving in the late 1800s
US HISTORY STAAR EOC 11TH
US HISTORY STAAR EOC 11TH GRADE ACTUAL
RETAKE EXAM WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 2025
Gilded Age -Correct Answer ✔1870s - 1890s; time period looked good on the outside,
despite the corrupt politics and growing gap between the rich and poor
Technological (Second Industrial) Revolution -Correct Answer ✔based on steel,
railroads, electricity, oil-based products
Alexander Graham Bell -Correct Answer ✔He was an American inventor who was
responsible for developing the telephone.
Thomas Edison -Correct Answer ✔American inventor best known for inventing the
electric light bulb, acoustic recording on wax cylinders, and motion pictures.
Telephone -Correct Answer ✔A device that converts sound into electrical signals that
can be transmitted over distances. Invented by Alexander Graham Bell.
Free Enterprise System -Correct Answer ✔An economic system in which people are
free to operate their businesses as they see fit, with little government interference.
Laissez-Faire -Correct Answer ✔No government intervention in business.
Corporation -Correct Answer ✔A business that is owned by many investors.
Bessemer Process -Correct Answer ✔A process for making steel more efficiently,
patented in 1856.
Entrepreneurship -Correct Answer ✔Accepting the risk of starting and running a
business.
Monopoly -Correct Answer ✔A market in which there are many buyers but only one
seller.
Andrew Carnegie -Correct Answer ✔A business man that increased his power through
by gaining control of the many different businesses that make up all phases of steel
production development.
John Rockefeller -Correct Answer ✔Creator of the Standard Oil Company who made a
fortune on it and joined with competing companies in trust agreements that in other
words made an amazing monopoly.
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,US HISTORY STAAR EOC 11TH
Robber Baron -Correct Answer ✔a negative term for business leaders that implied they
built their fortunes by stealing from the public
Captain of Industry -Correct Answer ✔business leader who has a positive impact
Philanthropy -Correct Answer ✔Giving money to help the poor
Political Machines -Correct Answer ✔Corrupt organized groups that controlled political
parties in the cities. A boss leads the machine and attempts to grab more votes for his
party.
Political Boss -Correct Answer ✔representative for or head of the political machine;
gained votes for their parties by doing favors for people.
Immigration -Correct Answer ✔Coming to live permanently in a foreign country
Push and Pull Factors -Correct Answer ✔The push factor involves a force which acts to
drive people away from a place and the pull factor is what draws them to a new location.
Nativists -Correct Answer ✔U.S. citizens who opposed immigration because they were
suspicious of immigrants and feared losing jobs to them
Ethnic Ghettos -Correct Answer ✔immigrants lived here due to cultural similarities,
especially in big cities
Child Labor -Correct Answer ✔Children were viewed as laborers throughout the 19th
century. Many children worked on farms, small businesses, mills and factories.
Labor Union -Correct Answer ✔An organization of workers that tries to improve working
conditions, wages, and benefits for its members
Strikes -Correct Answer ✔times when workers refuse to work until owners improve
conditions
Knights of Labor -Correct Answer ✔1st effort to create National union. Open to
everyone but lawyers and bankers. Vague program, no clear goals, weak leadership
and organization. Failed
Haymarket Massacre -Correct Answer ✔Was when there was a peaceful protest at the
the Haymarket square and a bomb was thrown at the police and the police started
shooting at innocent people
US HISTORY STAAR EOC 11TH
, US HISTORY STAAR EOC 11TH
AFL (American Federation of Labor) -Correct Answer ✔A labor union created by
Samuel Gompers that was the ONLY labor union that only accepted skilled workers
Samuel Gompers -Correct Answer ✔He was the creator of the American Federation of
Labor. He provided a stable and unified union for skilled workers
IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) -Correct Answer ✔A labor organization for
unskilled workers, formed by a group of radical unionists and socialists in 1905.
Sometimes called Wobblies
Manifest Destiny -Correct Answer ✔A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans
that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific.
Westward Migration -Correct Answer ✔the movement of people to the western and mid-
western states to find new opportunities (ex. jobs, land, and gold).
Homestead Act -Correct Answer ✔1862 - provided free land in the west as long as the
person would settle there and make improvements in five years
Transcontinental Railroad -Correct Answer ✔Completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah, it
linked the eastern railroad system with California's railroad system, revolutionizing
transportation in the west
Great Plains -Correct Answer ✔A mostly flat and grassy region of western North
America
Frontier -Correct Answer ✔a wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country
Klondike Gold Rush -Correct Answer ✔a frenzy of gold rush immigration to and for gold
prospecting, along the Klondike River near Dawson City, Yukon, Canada after gold was
discovered there in the late 19th century.
Indian Wars -Correct Answer ✔1850 to 1890; series of conflicts between the US Army /
settlers and different Native American tribes
Reservations -Correct Answer ✔areas of federal land set aside for American Indians
Dawes Act -Correct Answer ✔1887 law which gave all Native American males 160
acres to farm and also set up schools to make Native American children more like other
Americans
New Immigration -Correct Answer ✔Immigrants from Southern and Eastern European
countries and Asia arriving in the late 1800s
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