Indian Removal
Rober Barons
Labor/Farm
Movement
Urbanization
Westward Movement
100
This Native American warrior spent the majority of his life fighting against the Mexicans.
Who is Geronimo?
100
This philanthropist was a mere 5'3"
Who is Carngie?
100
This riot in Chicago resulted in the conviction of 8 anarchists.
What is the Haymarket Square riot?
100
These acts of persecution against Jews caused many to move to the United States around the turn of the 20th century.
What are pogroms?
100
This act gave settlers 160 acres if they improved the land and lived on it for 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
200
This group of Indians fought against removal from their native land in Oregon.
Who are the Nez Pearce?
200
This man was the head of the Standard Oil company.
JD Rockefeller
200
This famous speech by William Jennings Bryan claimed the gold standard was an unnecessary burden
What is the "Cross of Gold" speech?
200
Immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe passed through this New York landmark upon arriving to America.
What is the Statue of Liberty.
200
This system established boundaries for each Native American tribe and attempted to separate them into two great "colonies."
What is the reservation system?
300
This author penned "A Century of Dishonor"
Who is Helen Hunt Jackson?
300
This railroad magnate nailed in a golden stake at Promitory Point.
Who is Stanford?
300
Samuel Gompers headed this craft union.
What is the American Federation of Labor?
300
Many new immigrants were crowded into these small apartment buildings.
What is a tenement?
300
This major deposit of silver found in Nevada caused a huge migration to that state.
What is the Comstock Lode?
400
This Native American warrior defeated Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
Who is Crazy Horse?
400
A mechanism by which one company grants control of its operations, through ownership of its sock, to another company.
What is a trust?
400
This 1894 strike was organizes by Eugene Debs and was spurred by a massive increase in rent on company houses.
What is the Pullman strike?
400
This architect designed Central Park and other "beautiful" places.
Who is Frederick Law Olmsted?
400
These acts in 1862 and 1890 created land grant colleges across the United States.
What is the Morrill Land Grand Act?
500
This act broke up reservations and promised citizenship to Indians in 25 years.
What is the Dawes Severalty Act?
500
Known as the "Wizard of Menlo Park" this man is credited with inventing the telegraph, phonograph, and telephone.
Who is Thomas Edison?
500
This Supreme Court case declared that only the federal government can regulate interstate commerce.
What is Wabash vs. Illinois?
500
This "yellow journalist" was expelled from Harvard College and ran the San Francisco Examiner.
Who is William Randolph Hearst?
500
This historian put forth the "frontier thesis" which asserted that the frontier movement shaped the American character.
Who is Frederick Jackson Turner?
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