Immigrants commonly worked in this type of business.
What are factories?
100
The West was known as these two frontiers.
What are The Mining Frontier and the Farming Frontier?
100
This policy, enacted by Andrew Jackson, declared that the lands of the west would always be "Indian Country".
What is the Reservation Policy?
100
This group was blamed for most of the crime and poverty in cities, which led to more people wanting better treatment for them.
What are immigrants?
100
This would have led many Irish immigrants to want to come to the US.
What is the potato famine of 1845?
200
These were the ways that "Old" immigrants differed from "New" immigrants.
What is they were more skilled, usually spoke English, and were more commonly literate.
200
The invention of this farming equipment helped aid Western farmers in fencing in their lands.
What is barbed wire?
200
This ended recognition of tribes as an independent nation by the federal government and nullified previously made treaties
What is the Indian Appropriation Act
200
This woman was a reformer who was concerned with the living conditions of the poor. She opened the Hull House in Chicago, and taught English to immigrants, pioneering early childhood education.
Who is Jane Addams?
200
This Nativist society was known for being openly prejudiced against Roman Catholics.
Who are the American Protective Association?
300
These two groups of immigrants built the transcontinental railroad.
What are the Chinese and Irish?
300
This encouraged farming of the Great Plains by offering 160 acres of public land free.
What is the Homestead Act?
300
These two groups were the most often killed in battles between the Natives and the whites.
Who are women and children?
300
These two women founded the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
Who are Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
300
Other than those from Europe and China, many immigrants used for mining were from this group of countries.
What is Latin America?
400
These were two freedoms in the US that pulled immigrants from their native countries.
What are political and religious freedoms?
400
This was responsible for Nevada's entrance into the Union.
What is the discovery of Comstock Lode in 1859?
400
This was the last major battle for the Natives.
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?
400
This league, formed in 1893, was a powerful political force, and by 1916 had actually convinced 21 states to close down any saloons and bars.
What is the Anti-Saloon League?
400
These types of jobs were commonly found in the newly settled parts of the West.
What are jobs in mining, cattle ranching, and farming?
500
These men would come to the US to work temporarily to gain money, and would bring it back home to their families in their native countries.
What are birds of passage?
500
Due to this, about 2,500,000 families had to purchase their land instead of receiving it under the Homestead Act.
What is public lands often ending up in the hands of railroads companies and speculators?
500
The slaughter of most of this animal essentially caused the downfall of those living in the Great Plains.
What are the buffalo?
500
This union, formed in 1874, advocated total abstinence from alcohol.
What is the Woman's Christian Temperance Union?
500
This law in 1885 restricted temporary workers/immigrants in order to protect American jobs.