American Expansion
Native America
Robber Barons
Reform
The Great Struggle
100
This town is created when people rush to a certain area due to a discovery of a certain mineral.
What is a Boomtown?
100
This idea proposed creating two large reservations in the west. One for northern Indians and one for southern Indians.
What was the Indian Peace commission.
100
He ran the Tammany Hall political machine.
Who was William "Boss" Tweed?
100
He was the leader of the AFL (Not the American Football League).
Who was Samuel Gompers?
100
To prevent African Americans from voting, states started charging this, something most poor farmers could not afford.
What is a Poll Tax?
200
This is an alternative name for a Hispanic neighborhood.
What is a Barrio?
200
This term means to absorb a group into the culture of a larger population.
What is assimilate?
200
He was the first to strike "black" gold.
Who was Edwin Drake?
200
She founded the Hull House.
Who was Jane Addams?
200
Can't read Shakespeare? Then it is unlikely that you will be able to pass this to be eligible to vote.
What is a Literacy Test?
300
This act offered large tracts of land for a $10 payment. It was intended to spur growth in the Mid-West.
What is the Homestead Act?
300
He was the leader of the Nez Perce. He said, "I will fight not more."
Who was Chief Joseph?
300
He was the found of GE, and he invented the light bulb.
Who was Thomas Edison?
300
Farmers worked together to help themselves financially by forming these.
What are cooperatives?
300
This clause allowed poor white farmers to continue voting even if they could not a poll tax or pass a literacy test.
What is a Grandfather Clause?
400
Farmers use this method of planting which takes advantage of the moisture found deep in the ground.
What is Dry Farming?
400
This act allotted a certain amount of land to all Native American families.
What was the Dawes Act?
400
This is a French phrase meaning let the people do as they please.
What is "Laissez Faire"?
400
This is the act of giving your money to promote the welfare of others.
What is philanthropy?
400
This is the act of hanging someone before they face trial, usually performed on African Americans.
What is Lynching?
500
This man's railroad helped build up the Mid-West and Northwest by offering low fare to passengers that would be living closer to the railroad.
Who was James J. Hill?
500
Native Americans were slaughtered by American troops here in 1890, and an American Indian Movement protest was staged here 80 years later.
What is Wounded Knee?
500
He was the prime share holder of the Central Pacific Railroad.
Who was Leland Stanford, Jr.?
500
This is a type of tax system proposed by the People's Party.
What is a Graduated Income Tax?
500
He believed that African Americans would gain respect from whites by earning through becoming a population of skilled laborers.
Who was Booker T. Washington?
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