Amendments
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
These were laws that enforced segregation in the south.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This man helped expose some of the horrible conditions in the New York City tenements through his photographs.
Who is Jacob Riis?
This name was given to the African American cavalry who served on the plains.
Who are buffalo soldiers?
Name for the African American's after they were freed from slavery.
Located in New York Harbor, this immigration center is what most of us think of when it comes to immigration.
What is Ellis Island?
Long journeys where cowboys herded cattle to grazing or to be sold.
What is a Cattle Drive?
The immigrants who arrived in the United States between 1840 and 1860 were given this special name.
What is and "Old Immigrant"?
This amendment gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
This law prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transport of mislabeled or contaminated food and drugs. (Thank you Upton Sinclair!!!)
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This man was a progressive president. He was known for greatly expanding the power of the president and for all the national parks he created.
(He even has a toy named after him!)
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This man was the leader of the Tammany Hall political machine.
Who is Boss Tweed?
This African American leader believed that education and economic success were the ways to overcome discrimination.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Promontory Point, Utah saw this man -attempt- to drive the Golden Spike to complete the first transcontinental railroad! He was also the governor of California and started a college in California.
Who is Leland Standford?
Invented in England, this process for making steel was a great improvement over the old method. Instead of taking days, steel could be created in minutes!
What is the Bessemer Process?
If you were an immigrant who practiced Judaism or Catholicism you were MOST likely a...
This amendment gave citizenship to anyone born in the United States (except Native Americans.)
What is the 14th Amendment?
This law made it illegal to create monopolies or trusts that restrained trade.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Name given to the tough farmers who came out to settle the plains.
Who are sodbusters?
This African American leader felt the way to combat discrimination was through protests and through the court system. He was also the first African American to graduate from Harvard University.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
This man sold a lot of newspapers! One of the ways he did it was by adding COLOR to his comics!
Who is Joseph Pulitzer?
This city became so polluted (due to the massive amounts of steel being produced there) that they sometimes had to turn on their street lamps during the day!
What is Pittsburg?
This is the total ownership of a product or service.
Also - a somewhat fun board game, if you don't mind the table being flipped every once and a while.
What is a monopoly?
This immigrant came from Scotland and amassed his fortune through the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
These laws divided the South into five districts, each one with a military commander in charge.
What are the Reconstruction Acts?
This man replaced Abraham Lincoln as president. He wasn't terribly great at putting the country back together again!
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This group used terror tactics to drive African American away from the polls and the prevent them from voting.
Who are the Ku Klux Klan?
This GROUP of women were trying to get the right to vote! They took their ideas from a British group attempting the same thing and they were really big fans of marches.
What is the National American Woman Suffrage Association?
Located in Nevada, this gold and silver mine was of biblical proportions!
What is the Comstock Lode?
This economic system has private business run most industries.
What is capitalism?
The workers who died in this EVENT, were mostly Jewish and Italian immigrants.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
This amendment allowed for people to directly vote for their senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This law set up a merit system for awarding federal jobs. Under this law more than 10% of federal job applicants had to pass an exam before they could be hired.
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
This Chiricahua Apache was never captured, but surrendered in 1886, signaling the end of Apache armed resistance.
Who is Geronimo?
This man became rich by owning almost all the oil companies in the United States. He also is an example of Horizontal Integration.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This court case came about because a man sat in a "white's only" train car. His lawyers argued that the law violated his right to equal treatment under the 14th Amendment.
What is Plessy V. Ferguson?
This immigration center, located in the San Francisco Bay, is where many Asian immigrants entered the country.
What is Angel Island?
What is Social Darwinism?
If you were an immigrant from Russia or Czechoslovakia you were most likely an...
What is a New Immigrant?
This amendment outlawed alcohol.
What is the 18th Amendment?
These laws divided up Indian reservation lands and promised Native Americans citizenship.
What is the Dawes General Allotment Act?
This Lakota Sioux was a spiritual leader of his people.
Who is Sitting Bull?
This man was the first African American to serve in the Senate.
Who is Hiram Revels?
This group of African American who left the South and moved west (particularly towards Kansas) to farm.
Who are exodusters?
Founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in 1889, this home helped many of the poor in Chicago.
What is Hull House?
Theodore Roosevelt felt that the interests of the consumers, businesspeople, and laborers should be balanced for the public good. He called this plan a geometric name.
What is the Square Deal?
This period of rapid industrial growth was fueled by the arrival of so many immigrants.
What is the Second Industrial Revolution?
This amendment allowed for a federal income tax.
What is the 16th Amendment?
This law gave land to states which they had to sell in order to help fund the building of colleges.
What is the Morrill Act?
This leader of the Radical Republicans was known for believing in the rights of African Americans AND for having a sharp tongue!
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?
This Paiute invented a religious movement known as the Ghost Dance.
Who is Wovoka?
This group of people thought that too many immigrants were coming into the country and that they might harm American society.
Who are nativists?
This ran from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas and was one of the earliest and most popular routes for drives.
What is the Chisholm Trail?
This group was formed in 1909 to bring attention to racial inequality.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
(NAACP)
This immigration center is located in Texas and is where many Mexicans came through during the late 1800's.
What is El Paso?