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Hodgepodge
100
Leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux who fought at Little Bighorn.
Who is Sitting Bull
100
A process in which a company bought out its suppliers in order to control the raw materials and transportation systems.
What is vertical integration?
100
Site of final clash between Native Americans and the US military.
What is Wounded Knee?
100
Enacted to promote settlement of the Plains.
What is Homestead Act?
100
Their platform included bimetallism, a graduated income tax, a single term presidency and secret ballots.
What is the Populist party?
200
Speech teacher who invented the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
200
A company formed by a group of investors.
What is a corporation?
200
1876 battle between Sioux indians and Custer and the US Army.
What is Little Bighorn?
200
Established the right of the federal government to regulate railroad activities.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
200
This theory applied biological scientific theory to human society, and excused economic disparity and discrimination.
What is Social Darwinism?
300
Inventor who established a research laboratory in New Jersey.
Who is Thomas Edison?
300
A process in which companies producing a similar product merge to gain control of a market and limit competition.
What is horizontal integration?
300
Cattle trail that stretched from Texas to Kansas.
What is the Chisholm Trail?
300
This act broke up reservations in an attempt to Americanize Native Americans.
What is the Dawes Act?
300
Its invention allowed cattle ranches to be enclosed and ended the era of the open range in the West.
What is barbed wire?
400
Leader of the oil industry who formed the Standard Oil Company.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
400
Site where the transcontinental railroad joined.
What is Promontory Point?
400
This act set aside lands to start agricultural colleges.
What is the Morrill Act?
400
Enormous plots of land that produced a single crop and employed hundreds of migratory workers.
What is a bonanza farm?
500
Elected President of the United States in 1896.
Who is William McKinley?
500
A business organization formed when several companies gave control of operations to a board of trustees.
What is a trust?
500
Settlers who moved here experienced difficult economic and weather conditions as they struggled to farm.
What is the Great Plains?
500
Supreme Court decision that gave states the right to regulate the railroads for the benefit of farmers and consumers.
What is Munn v. Illinois?
500
The Plains tribes nomadic way of life depended heavily on this animal.
What is buffalo?
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