Native America
Westward Expansion
Still going West
Populist Party
Populist continued
Inventions
Tycoons
Social Changes
Immigration
100

What two major types of animals were introduced to the Americas by the Spanish?

Cows (Cattle) and Horses

100

What law gave Native AMericans private property and forced children to go to schools to Americanize them?

Dawes Act

100

What were the two railroads that were involved with making the transcontinental railroad?

Union Pacific and Central Pacific

100

What was the money printed during the Civil War which could not be exchanged for gold?

Greenbacks

100

What platform do people who support silver and gold support? (For a second 100, what is the nickname)

Bimetallism (Silverite)

100

Who was is credited with the invention of the lightbulb

Thomas Edison

100

What are the two nicknames for the tycoons involved with industrialization in America? 

Robber Barons and Capitans of Industry

100

This law was made to break up monopolies.

Sherman Anti-Trust Law

100

What was the racist reaction to immigration called?

Nativism

200

How many Native American Languages are still spoken today?

800+

200

What battle did Custer die at? 

Little Big Horn

200

What were African Americans who moved west from the Post-Reconstruction South called?

Exodusters

200

What does Populism Mean?

Movement of the People

200

What does someone who favors gold only support? (What is the nickname for an additional 200)

Gold standard

Gold bugs

200

Who invented the telephone?

Alexander Graham Bell

200

What person made his money in the Steel industry based in Pittsburg?

Andrew Carnegie

200

What was the first major union?

National Labor Union

200

What are "hyphenated Americans"? (You can give an example)

Irish-American

Immigrants that kept some of their own culture and taking up parts of american culture

300

What animal did many Native Americans rely upon in the Great Planes?

Buffalo/Bison

300

How many buffalo were there at the end of the 18th century?

a few hundred

300

What type of house was made out of dirt and grass

Soddy

300

What Speech did William Jennings Bryan make at the Democratic National Convention?

Cross of Gold

300

Which party was gold bugs and which party was the Silverites

Silverite - Democrats

Gold Bug - Republican

300

Who invented the type writer?

Christopher Sholes

300

Who made their money in the oil business?

John D. Rockefeller

300

What was the Haymarket Riot's original protest about? 

8 hour work day

300

What group lobbied for bills to deny immigrants entry if they were illiterate?

Immigration Restriction League

400

What Native America Tribe  was the last major group of resistance to US expansion into the Great Plains

Sioux

400

What regions did many men come from to be cowboys?

South and Mexico

400

What Farming Equipment companies started during this time frame?

John Deere and McCormick

400

What was the event which started the debate over how money should be backed?

The Panic of 1893

400

What did Johnson require in his Reconstruction plan?

 1. Larger percentage of the state voter's had to take pledge of allegiance.

2. Renounce Succession

3. Support the 13th amendment

400

Who invented away to drill for crude oil?

Edwin L. Drake

400

Who was a major player in the railroad industry and started company towns?

George Pullman

400

What was the strike that was about low wages and high rent?

Pullman Strike

400

What were the two major ports of entry for Immigration

Ellis Island, and Angel Island (If you give one of the other major port cities, it will be right for this jeopardy)

500

How did specific wording affect the public opinion of the U.S. involved with conflicts between the military and Native Americans?

Massacres if Native Americans won so people would view them more negatively and the U.S. troops winning would be labeled a battle.

500

What is it called when many herds of cows are led up from Texas to railroad towns in the center of the country?

Cattle Drive

500

What Act increased funding for Agricultural colleges? 

Morrill Act

500

What party accepted the Populist platform?

Democratic

500

Which one or ones of the following did the Populist party not support? 

Increased money supply, Secret ballots, 2 term limits on president, 8 hr work days, open immigration

open immigration and 2 term limits on president

500

Who invented barbed wire?

Joseph Glidden

500

Who was a rich banker and bought Carnegie Steel and started US Steel?

J.P. Morgan

500

What strike caused railroads to halt operations in multiple states?

The Great Stike of 1877

500

What were people who came to the US to make money and return home called?

Birds of Passage

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