One of the causes of Westward Expansion was overcrowding in cities due to an influx of immigrants from which continent?
What is Europe
100
Samuel Gompers was the head of this major labor union
What is The American Federation of Labor
100
This was the name of laws in the South that were aimed at separating the races.(hint: a bird)
What are Jim Crow Laws
100
These gained powers by providing services to the immigrants in exchange for votes; Tammany Hall was an example of this type of political group.
What are Political Machines
100
The most common, and effective method of protests used by labor unions. (hint:bowling and baseball has these)
What are strikes
200
49ers were people who flocked to this state during its' 1849 Gold Rush
What is California
200
John D. Rockefeller became a billionaire after he started this company that provided this resource
What is Standard Oil Co.
200
This act took away 80% of the Indian lands by requiring them to register for land as individuals rather than as tribes.
What is the DAWES act
200
This person was the Progressive or Bull Moose candidate for the 1912 Presidential election.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt
200
Owning all the companies in an industry
What is a monopoly
300
The U.S. took over this Central American nation to build a canal which linked the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is Panama
300
Andrew Carnegie was the industrialist who had a monopoly over what resource
What is Oil
300
This act created by Abraham Lincoln gave 160 acres of free land to anyone willing to settle in the West
What is the Homestead Act
300
A change to the Constitution that gave citizens the power to directly elect their Senators to Congress
What is the 17th Amendment
300
Several companies join to fix prices and reduce competition
What is a Trust
400
A weather disaster during the mid-30's that led to the increased migration of Farmers and Okies westward to places like California.
What is the Dust Bowl
400
This person was the founder of Hull House
Who is Jane Addams
400
This act passed in 1882, excluded Chinese Immigrants from coming to America
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
400
This political party wanted a variety of reforms including; a graduated income tax, direct election of senators, term limits for presidents free coinage of silver and government ownership of public utilities.
What is the Populist Party
400
This 1886 bombing incident in Chicago led to the arrest and execution of several "anarchists" and dealt a blow to the union movement as labor leaders were often labeled radicals.
What is the Haymarket Affair
500
Name the place where most European immigrants firs arrived when coming to the U.S
What is Ellis Island
500
This author aimed for the stomach with his book, "The Jungle"
Who is Upton Sinclair
500
An example of a Federal Law passed to limit the business practices of monopolies and big business.
What is the Anti-Trust Act
500
Two examples of Social Changes during the 1920's that became new Amendments to the Constitution.
What are the 18th and 19th amendments.
500
The name used to describe the "new" woman of the 1920's who wore short hair and dresses and expanded social freedoms.