chapter 20 test 2
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- Who was a New York banker?
- J. P. Morgan
- The arrival point in America for most immigrants was...
- Ellis Island
- Who was a railroad tycoon?
- Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Special lands set aside for Native Americans were called...
- reservations
- Two countries that provided many railroad worders were...
- Ireland and China
- What was the name of the cattle drive path?
- Goodnight-Loving
- What industry produces materials like coal, iron and steel?
- heavy
- A refusal by workers to do their jobs is called a...
- strike
- Bottle Alley is a name for a New York...
- slum
- The author of How the Other Half Lives is...
- Jacob Riis
- The first transcontinental railroad was completed in what year?
- 1869
- Through the Dawes Act, the governmnet tried to get Native Americans to take up what?
- farming
- The final defeat of the Native Americans occured where?
- Wounded Knee
- Some people blamed immigrants for what kind of pay?
- low
- Most newcommers to the city lived in...
- apartments
- Whites killed buffalo mostly for food and for..
- hides
- Thousands of Southern African Americans moved to New York City and settled in what area?
- Harlem
- The Populist Party hoped to end the raliroads' high rates through...
- nationalization
- After William McKinley was assassinated who became President?
- Theodore Roosevelt
- The Sioux leader that led his people off a reservation was...
- Sitting Bull
- Describe how immigrants in the US lived.
- The immigrants lived in their own neighborhoods mostly. Many could not afford houses so they lived in rented apartment buildings. Most families crammed into 1 bedroom apartments. They had poor sanitiation and sewer systems.