Closing the Frontier
Populism
Big Industry
Immigration & Urbanization
Progressivism & Labor Unions
Amendments
Bonus
100
The Homestead Act offered 160 acres of land to any citizen willing to settle in which of these areas?
The West (Big Square).
100
The Populist movement was started by people in this occupation.
Farmers
100
What is one thing the Interstate Commerce Act and the Sherman Antitrust Act have in common?
They both attempted to regulate the power of monopolies
100
New or Old Immigrant? South European man settling on a farm.
Old
100
What was the movement that wanted to prohibit the sale of alcohol?
The Temperance Movement
100
What was the 16th Amendment?
Income tax
100
The Pure Food and Drug Act was a governmental response to which muckraker?
Upton Sinclair
200
What is the vocab term used to describe policy that made Native Americans more "American"?
Assimilation Policy
200
What was William Jennings Bryan's main point with the Speech "Cross of Gold"
Support for the free coinage of silver.
200
What does this photo depict? (One object = 1 factory)
Horizontal Integration
200
Where were new immigrants most likely from?
South or East Europe
200
Striking, Picketing, Boycotts, and collective bargaining are all forms of __________ _______ tactics
Labor Union
200
The 16th & 17th Amendments were a lasting reforms for which political party?
Populist Party
200
What was the North West Ordinance?
A way for territories to become states.
300
What occurred at the Battle of Wounded Knee?
A group of Native Americans was massacred by the US Army.
300
True or False: The populist party wanted less involvement of the government in the economy.
False.
300
Who benefited most from the idea of Social Darwinism and laissez-faire economics?
Big Industries Owners
300
How did Boss Tweed from the Tammany Hall Political Machine get the votes of poor people?
By offering them services!
300
Who created the U.S. Forest Service?
President Theodore Roosevelt
300
What was the 18th amendment?
Prohibition of the sale of liquor
300
How did WEB Dubois's beliefs differ from Booker T. Washington's?
If you see this, you are correct!
400
Who were the Buffalo Soldiers and how did they differ from Exodusters?
Black people who fought in the US Army on the Western Frontier. Exodusters were simply black people who settled in the West.
400
What was the Interstate Commerce Act? (What precedent did it set?)
This sets a precedent for the regulation of business by the federal government
400
How would a Big industry owner refute the claim that he is a robber baron?
He/she could count the number of jobs he/she created, or explicate their philanthropy
400
Why did Americans feel the need to implement the Chinese Exclusion Act?
They believed the Chinese were taking their jobs.
400
Who wrote The Jungle and what was it about?
Upton Sinclair and Sanitation concerns in the meat packing industry
400
What was the 19th Amendment?
Women's right to vote
400
Your home country doesn't have freedom of religion, freedom of speech, or freedom from illegal searches and seizures... Would those be push factors or pull factors?
Push Factors
500
How did inventions like barbed wire, the prairie fan, and the mechanical reaper impact farming?
They made it easier for farmers to grow more crops.
500
The Election 1890: William ___________, a republican VS William _______ _____________, a democrat (populist)
William McKinley vs William Jennings Bryan
500
Who held a monopoly in the Railroad Industry
Cornelius Vanderbuilt
500
What is Nativism?
The belief that people born in your own country are better than people born in different countries
500
Why did workers at the Pullman House go on strike?
Employees received wage cuts and were already in cycles of debt with their employers.
500
What does suffrage mean?
Voting rights?
500
What were the Navigation Acts imposed on Colonial America by the British?
British laws that restricted colonial trade to benefit England by requiring colonists to ship goods only on English vessels and trade primarily with England.
600
After the passage of the Interstate Commerce Act, did the government have more or less control over the American Economy?
More control.
600
Why do farmers want Bimetallism?
They believed the expansion of currency would increase crop prices and solve the money shortage.
600
If a company own all steps of the manufacturing and selling of a product, it is called: ______________
Vertical integration
600
Name the Island:
-Entrance for immigrants from the Eastern US coast into America
-An iconic symbol of the immigrant experience and desire for the American Dream
Ellis Island
600
Who passed the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Theodore Roosevelt
600
What is the 21st Amendment?
Repeal of Prohibition
600
Name three methods blacks faced when trying to vote in the south?
Literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clause
700
What key vocab term embodies the policy type of the Dawes Severalty Act?
What main thing did the Dawes Severalty Act do?
-Assimilation Policy
-Divided up Tribal Lands for individual ownership
700
The Grange was formed because the American economy shifted away from agriculture and towards ______________.
Mix letters for answers: N D U I S L I A T R -ISM
Industrial Economy (Industrialism)
700
What was the Sherman Antitrust Act?
The Sherman Antitrust Act (1890) was the first major U.S. federal law that prohibited monopolies and anti-competitive business practices to protect free market competition
700
What did Jacob Rii's uncover with his photographs in his book "How the Other Side Lives"
The unsanitary and overcrowded conditions of tenements
700
During the Industrial Age, what caused a growth in labor union membership in the United States?
Terrible conditions of the factories
700
What was the 17th Amendment?
Direct Election of Senators
700
When is Mr. Busche's birthday, and what is his favorite type of candy and also coffee?
March 28th (This Saturday) and Sugar Babies or Good and Plenty. Also From Starbucks: A Brown sugar shaken oat milk expresso with the crunchy bits in it.