Post Civil War Change
The Farming and Railroad Revolution
Divided South and Indians
Imperial Expansion
Latin America and Asia
100

who was Andrew Carnegie?

He was responsible for great advances in steel production.

100

Homestead act...

a. Native Americans where given land in return for peace

b. 64 hectares where given to citizens who would occupy and improve the land

c. Farmers where given discounted land if they occupied it.

what is b

100

What is the 14th Amendment?

All people born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States.

100

What doctrine was first used to justify America's continental expansion?

What is Manifest Destiny.

100

What is the name of the canal, that joins the Atlantic, and the Pacific oceans?

What is Panama Canal.

200

Who was John D. Rockefeller?

What is the founder of the Standard Oil Company.

200

What industry did unfair practices, which lead to the Interstate Commerce Act (ICC)?

What is the railroad industry.

200

Name the 2 African American spokesman who gave advice on dealing with segregation.

What is Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois.

200

What was America's first venture beyond her continental borders?

What is the purchase of Alaska.

200

List 2 countries that the US helped between 1900 and 1920?

What is Haiti, The Dominican Republic, and Nicaragua.

300

Who was Cornelius Vanderbilt?

What is being responsible in merging small railroad lines into large interstate railroad systems.

300

Pooling was...

a. When communities build a pool to equally distribute recreation.

b. When people of the same culture combined there money for communal use.

c. When railroads placed total earnings in a common fund to share.

What is c

300

Westward expansion led to more conflicts with the Indians, what 2 tribes gave the biggest opposition?

What is the Sioux, and the Apache.

300

What country sold Alaska to America in 1867?

What is Russia.

300

What is the name of the organization comprised of many independent nations of the Western Hemisphere dedicated to the peaceful settlement of disputes and to closer economic bonds?

what is Organization of American States (OAS)

400

Why where corporations and trusts developed?

what is to assist in merging independent industrial enterprises into centralized companies, such as US Steel Corporation.

400

What are 3 machines used in the advancement in farming.

What is the Reaper, Automatic Wire Binder, Threshing Machine, Mechanical Planter, Cutters, Poultry Incubators, Potato Planters, Manure Spreader, cream Separator, and Hay Drier.

400

What was the name of the American army general, who was killed by the Sioux at Little Big Horn River?

what is General George Custer.

400

What triggered the Spanish American War?

What is the sinking of the US warship, The Maine. (at Havana harbor)

400

What's the name of the rebellion in 1900 in witch the Chinese struck out against European powers?

What is The Boxer Rebellion.

500

What was the name of the huge iron ore range discovered in the late 1800s?

What is Mesabi

500

What act in 1862 allowed public land to each state for the establishment of agricultural and industrial colleges.

What is The Morrill Land Grant College Act

500

What Congressional act in 1887 led to the plundering of Indian lands and disruption of their traditional culture?

What is The Dawes Act.

500

In 1959, this Pacific island became the 50th state?

What is Hawaii.

500

What American president won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for mediating the Russo-Japanese War?

Who is Theodore Roosevelt.

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