US HISTORY COMMON ASSESSMENT VII
STUDY GUIDE
1.
Define
gilded age
2.
Why
was the US flourishing following the US Civil War?
3.
Define
horizontal integration
4. Who started horizontal integration?
5. What finally connect east and west United States in May, 1869?
6. Effects of Transcontinental Railroad
7. Define Homestead Act of 1862
8.
Which population
trend occurred in the U.S. from 1860 to 1920?
9.
Role
of government in western settlement
10. Define laissez-faire
capitalism
11. Define “robber baron”
12. Describe philanthropy
of John D. Rockefeller
¸ "Our
greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always
to try just one more time.”
¸ “I never did
anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came
by work."
¸ “The reason a lot
of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around
wearing overalls looking like hard work.”
Thomas
Alva Edison (1847-1931)
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