Westward Expansion
What was found in the West, which caused many people to move to California in hopes of making money?
Gold and Silver
What is another name for segregation laws (laws that separated people based on race)?
Jim Crow laws
Which famous woman ran a settlement house in Chicago called Hull House, to help newly arrived immigrants?
Jane Addams
__________________ spent over two years developing the lightbulb
Thomas Edison
What percentage of the US's oil supply did JD Rockefeller and Standard Oil control?
90%
Why did settlers have to build their houses out of sod?
This Reconstruction leader was responsible for creating the 10% plan, and wanted the North and South to reconcile (make up)
Abraham Lincoln
What was the first monument most immigrants entering Ellis Island saw from the boat?
Statue of Liberty
telephone
Which union allowed African Americans to join, in order to protect their pay and working conditions
Brotherhood of the Sleeping Car Porters and Maids
What new invention connected the eastern and western regions of the United States, and made transportation West faster and cheaper?
Transcontinental Railroad
Match the amendment with it's purpose
13th Gave all men the right to vote
14th Outlawed slavery
15th All persons born in the US are citizens and have equal protection under the law
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What group of people gained power in government by trading votes for favors?
New transportation technology like __________ caused national markets to form.
railroads
Match the Captain of Industry to what they controlled
JD. Rockefeller Banking
Andrew Carnegie Oil
Cornelius Vanderbilt Railroads
JP Morgan Steel
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What was the name of the law that gave settlers 160 acres of land in the Great Plains for free?
Homestead Act
What group of people were sent to the South to supervise and ensure the new laws were being followed?
Federal troops (soldiers)
Choose a team representative to match the following
Pittsburgh Cosmetics
St. Louis Meatpacking
Detroit Steel
Chicago Automobiles
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This improvement to factories meant it was faster to produce products. Each worker is only responsible for one step of the process
Assembly Line
What did industrial development in cities create during America's Gilded Age?
increased labor needs
Sitting Bull
Which African American leader believed that vocational (job) education was the key to equality?
Booker T Washington
Rapid urbanization caused overcrowded apartment buildings called ____________________, especially in New York City
tenements
Between the Civil War and World War I, the US transformed from primarily a ____________ society to one based on _______________
1. agricultural (farming)
2. manufacturing and services
Which groups of people moved from rural to urban areas of the United States for better job opportunities?
blacks and whites
all ethnicities