What is a large business in which people invest their money and share ownership.
100
Reservation
What is land set aside by the U.S. government for a Native American group or groups.
100
Central Pacific Railroad
What is the railroad company that built a line from Sacramento, CA across the Sierra Nevada and joined the Union Pacific railroad in Utah.
100
Patronage
What is giving jobs to people who are not qualified because they donated money to or were friends with politicians.
200
The Johnston-Reed Act of 1924
What is the law that said the amount of new immigrants from one country could not exceed 2 percent of the number of people already living in the United States from that country.
200
monopoly
What is a business that completely controls an industry.
200
Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse
Who were the Lakota Chiefs that refused to let minors dig in the Black Hills for gold and brought on the Battle of Little Bighorn.
200
Boomtown
What is a town that would pop up when people came seeking their fortune in minerals.
200
recall
What is it when voters decide during a special election whether or not to remove an official from office.
300
muckraker
Who were writers who dug up dirt about working conditions or dishonest businesses and politicians.
300
Boston
Which American city had the first subway?
300
Plains Wars
What are the clashes between Native Americans and settlers during westward expansion.
300
Manifest Destiny
The belief that the United States should rule from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
300
referendum
What is it when citizens vote directly on a proposed law.
400
Labor Unions
What are groups that represented workers to gain better working conditions.
400
The elevator
What invention brought about the first skycraper in Chicago in 1884?
400
Colonel George Custer
Which U.S. Colonel was killed in the Battle of Little Bighorn?
400
Exodusters
Who were the African Americans that followed Henry Adams out of the South to Kansas.
400
Initiative
What is the process when voters sign a petition to introduce a bill and force the legislature to vote on an issue.
500
Tenement
What is a run down apartment building where immigrants lived in in crowded neighborhoods.
500
trust
What is a way of merging a number businesses , so that one person called a trustee , could manage another person's property.
500
Property Rights
What are the rights to own or use something for sale? Some Native Americans believed that land could not be owned or sold.
500
Homesteaders
Who were the people who claimed land under the 1862 Homestead Act.
500
This former President said, "This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a...good place for all of us to live in."