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100

The extreme limit of settled land BEYOND the wilderness is called?

The Frontier

100

The development of industries in a country or region is called?

Industrialization

100

What do you call the land that was set aside for the Native Americans when the US forcibly removed them from their homes?

Reservations

100
The process in forcing a minority group to adopt the prevailing culture is called?

Assimilation

100

Government rules designed to control business practices are called?

Regulations

200
by 1869, America began constructing what kind of transcontinental system?

Railroad

200

Name of the era that can also refer to a cheap metal being cover in a think layer of GOLD.

Gilded Age

200

What animal had their population killed by 99% by the US military?

Buffalo

200

Boomtowns were created due to an influx of materials being discovered, including silver, copper, and?

Gold

200

What process made it easier for businesses to produced steel at a faster rate?

Bessemer

300

Which machine made it easier and faster to harvest wheat?

Mechanical Reapers

300

Which political party was formed in 1892, by regular farmers?

Populist Party

300

A farming based society is called?

Agragrian

300

Which event in 1890 led to the massacre of many native Lakota men, women, and children?

Wounded Knee

300

The political movement representing ordinary people is called?

Populism

400

What did Joseph Glidden invent that helped farmers fence of their land for their cattle?

Barbed Wire

400

Which machine allowed farmers in drier areas, to dig up water from the underground?

Windmills

400

Which act of 1862 encouraged people to move out west in exchange for acres of land?

Homestead Act

400

How many months did it take for the "Cattle Walk" to finish its journey?

Three Months

400

Which two types of material were debated over in order to adopt a more simple money supply system?

Gold and Silver

500

Which act was approved that allowed Native Americans to be forcibly removed from their land?

Dawes Act of 1887

500

Explain what a "Graduated Income Tax" is.

The more money you make, the more you pay in taxes.

500

Which laws were pushed to regulate the railroad and grain industry?

Grange Laws

500

What year was the frontier officially considered closed off?

1890

500

The right of a group to govern itself is called?

Sovereignty

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