US History STAAR EOC 11th Grade Latest Exam With Verified Questions and Answers 2025/2026 Gilded Age - Correct Answers-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 Answers-based on steel, railroads, electricity, oil-based products Alexander Graham Bell - Correct Answers-He was an American inventor who was responsible for developing the telephone.Thomas Edison - Correct Answers-American inventor best known for inventing the electric light bulb, acoustic recording on wax cylinders, and motion pictures.Telephone - Correct Answers-A device that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances. Invented by Alexander Graham Bell.Free Enterprise System - Correct Answers-An economic system in which people are free to operate their businesses as they see fit, with little government interference.Laissez-Faire - Correct Answers-No government intervention in business.Corporation - Correct Answers-A business that is owned by many investors.Bessemer Process - Correct Answers-A process for making steel more efficiently, patented in 1856.Entrepreneurship - Correct Answers-Accepting the risk of starting and running a business.Monopoly - Correct Answers-A market in which there are many buyers but only one seller. 1 / 3
Andrew Carnegie - Correct Answers-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 Answers-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.Robber Baron - Correct Answers-a negative term for business leaders that implied they built their fortunes by stealing from the public Captain of Industry - Correct Answers-business leader who has a positive impact Philanthropy - Correct Answers-Giving money to help the poor Political Machines - Correct Answers-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 Answers-representative for or head of the political machine; gained votes for their parties by doing favors for people.Immigration - Correct Answers-Coming to live permanently in a foreign country Push and Pull Factors - Correct Answers-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 Answers-U.S. citizens who opposed immigration because they were suspicious of immigrants and feared losing jobs to them Ethnic Ghettos - Correct Answers-immigrants lived here due to cultural similarities, especially in big cities Child Labor - Correct Answers-Children were viewed as laborers throughout the 19th century. Many children worked on farms, small businesses, mills and factories.Labor Union - Correct Answers-An organization of workers that tries to improve working conditions, wages, and benefits for its members Strikes - Correct Answers-times when workers refuse to work until owners improve conditions 2 / 3
Knights of Labor - Correct Answers-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 Answers-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 AFL (American Federation of Labor) - Correct Answers-A labor union created by Samuel Gompers that was the ONLY labor union that only accepted skilled workers Samuel Gompers - Correct Answers-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 Answers-A labor organization for unskilled workers, formed by a group of radical unionists and socialists in
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Manifest Destiny - Correct Answers-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 Answers-the movement of people to the western and mid-western states to find new opportunities (ex. jobs, land, and gold).Homestead Act - Correct Answers-1862 - provided free land in the west as long as the person would settle there and make improvements in five years Transcontinental Railroad - Correct Answers-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 Answers-A mostly flat and grassy region of western North America Frontier - Correct Answers-a wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country Klondike Gold Rush - Correct Answers-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.