This man built a fortune by monopolizing the oil industry.
Who is John Rockefeller?
100
This president's vision for Reconstruction meant helping white Southerners instead of former slaves.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
100
This collection of islands in the Pacific Ocean became the first piece of the American Empire.
What is Hawaii?
100
This political platform called for the government ownership of the railroad and other utilities, the direct election of Senators, and a graduated income tax.
What is the Omaha Platform?
100
This massive complex of animal pens and slaughterhouses made Chicago the "hog butcher of the world."
What is the Union Stockyards?
200
This crucial piece of infrastructure linked the American West to the industrialized East upon completion in 1869.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
200
This 1866 amendment guarantees equal protection under the law and empowers the federal government to prevent individual states from restricting civil rights.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
200
This president of the Naval War College provided one of the most popular arguments for building an American Empire in 1890.
Who is Alfred Mahan?
200
This settlement house, created by Jane Addams and Ellen Starr, was arguably the most famous of its kind in the United States.
What is Hull House?
200
This catastrophe sparked a massive wave of Irish immigration to the United States in the 1840s.
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
300
The first leader of the American Federation of Labor who helped the union reach over 4,000,000 members.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
300
This federal agency was tasked with helping former slaves become citizens.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
300
This Filipino nationalist helped the United States in the Spanish-American War and later became the first president of the Republic of the Philippines.
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo?
300
This woman became famous for challenging lynching in the United States.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
300
This frank New York politician coined the phrase "honest graft."
Who is George Plunkitt?
400
This innovative technique made the production of steel cheaper and easier.
What is the Bessemer Process?
400
He won the presidency in exchange for ending Reconstruction in 1876.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
400
This addendum to the Monroe Doctrine set the stage for numerous American interventions in the Western Hemisphere during the twentieth century.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
400
As a part of the Square Deal, Theodore Roosevelt broke up this monopoly owned by J.P. Morgan.
What is the Northern Securities Company?
400
This muckraking photographer was known for his stark portrayals of urban poverty in late nineteenth-century America.
Who is Jacob Riis?
500
The manager of a Carnegie steel plant who narrowly avoided assassination in 1892.
Who is Henry Frick?
500
This man was the first African-American to serve in Congress.
Who is Hiram Revels?
500
These Filipino Muslims continued to resist the American occupation of their homelands until 1913.
Who were the Moros?
500
This riot was the only successful coup in American history.
What is the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898?
500
This Chicago neighborhood was once home to the largest Polish community in the city.