The main reason for conflict between Native Americans and white settlers.
What is land?
100
Boomtowns became these after all of the natural resources were used up.
What are ghost towns?
100
A company that controls all production and sales of a particular product or service.
What is a monopoly?
100
Nearly half of this group of immigrants eventually returned to their native country.
Who are Italian immigrants?
100
This system restricted immigration to 150,000 per year. Of those immigrants, 80% had to be from Northern Europe. This marked the end the US "open door" policy of immigration.
What is a quota system?
200
Through this, settlers were offered 160 acres of free land in exchange for farming it for 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
200
These people had difficulty farming the Great Plains due to a lack of rain.
What are homesteaders?
200
A group of corporations that unite in order to reduce competition and control prices.
What is a trust?
200
A large number of Mexicans immigrated between 1910 and 1920 for this reason.
What is the Mexican Revolution?
200
Most European immigrants were held here for health inspections.
What is Ellis Island?
300
This group of immigrants played a large role in the building of the Transcontinental Railroad.
What are Chinese immigrants?
300
This important figure died of a broken heart because he was forced to surrender his land to the US Army.
Who is Chief Joseph?
300
This branch of government was most affected by trusts and monopolies.
What is the legislative branch?
300
In 1882, the US banned immigration from this country.
What is China?
300
Immigrants in this time period were more diverse than those who immigrated earlier.
What is 1880 to 1920?
400
Cowboys herded millions of cattle from Texas to Kansas over the course of 20 years during this event.
What is the long drive?
400
The US ignored their treaty and tried to kick the Sioux off their land to mine for gold. The US lost this battle, but eventually they hunted down the Sioux and forced them onto reservations.
What is Custer's Last Stand?
400
These people formed organizations that helped factory workers stand up for their rights as employees.
Who are union organizers?
400
This was the reason so many Jewish people immigrated to the US.
What is religious persecution?
400
Most Chinese immigrants between 1850 and 1882 were ___________.
What is single men?
500
This development significantly increased the population of the West.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
500
This is what happened to Native Americans as settlers moved West.
What is they were pushed off their land.
500
These people were able to purchase products at a lower cost because the cost of production was lowered due to innovations such as the assembly line.
Who are consumers?
500
This was the main pull for immigrants to the US.
What are jobs?
500
The number of immigrants from these countries was almost identical.