These were the types of people that became workers for the Transcontinental railroad.
What are Chinese and Irish immigrants?
100
This is the term for an industry in which one company has complete control.
What is a Monopoly?
100
All immigrants coming into America had to go through either of these two immigration checkpoints in order to enter legally.
What are Angel Island and Ellis Island?
100
This country owned parts of North, South, East, and West Africa at the time.
What is Great Britain?
100
This was the term for people who would "rake" through the worst parts of society in order to expose corruption.
What are muckrakers?
200
This act served as one of the "push factors," encouraging people to move West.
What is The Homestead Act of 1862?
200
This man began an oil company, "Standard Oil," and used tactics to gain a monopoly over the oil business. His tactics are often described as "ruthless."
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
200
These were black farmers that moved West to avoid discrimination and own their own land.
What are Exodusters?
200
This is when the ideas of "survival of the fittest" are applied to people and social change.
What is Social Darwinism?
200
This is one of the oldest and most trusted civil rights organizations found in the US.
What is the NAACP?
300
These were regions of government owned property given to the Native Americans to live in, and for Americans to avoid.
What are Indian reservations?
300
This was the year that the Transcontinental Railroad was officially completed.
What is 1869?
300
This man was the only democratic president elected during the gilded age.
Who is Grover Cleveland?
300
The occurrence of this phenomenon in Europe drove Europeans to create and follow imperialist policies.
What is Industrialization?
300
This amendment was created to give women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
400
This lieutenant colonel led his soldiers to fight the Indians in the Black Hills in the Battle of Little Bighorn, but were unfortunately defeated.
Who is George Custer?
400
This city was where a huge new oil field was found, which eventually began an oil boom.
What is Spindletop, Texas?
400
These were the most common and effective methods used by labor unions in order to have better working conditions.
What are strikes?
400
The United States would acquire this Asian territory as a result of victory in the Spanish American war.
What are the Philippines?
400
This act was made to control/regulate businesses without breaking trusts.
What is the Hepburn Act?
500
These towns were very small in size. They were found around or near a railroad and were extremely violent places.
What are Railway Towns?
500
This process was a very popular breakthrough way to make steel during the revolution.
What is the Bessemer Process?
500
Andrew Carnegie came up with these two processes to mass produce steel.
What is the Open Hearth and Bessemer Process?
500
In their struggle for independence from this country, the Indians used civil disobedience as their primary mode of resistance.
What is Great Britain?
500
This is known as Woodrow Wilson's best achievement towards economic stability.