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100
The number of years in a century.
What is 100?
100
A gold rush that helped to create the first permanent settlements in Colorado.
What was Peaks Peak?
100
A wealthy industrialist who made his fortune in banking and stocks, and was one of the richest and most powerful men in American history.
Who was J.P. Morgan?
100
Grants citizenship to all persons born in the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment?
100
The name given to a northerner who moved to the south after the Civil War.
What was a carpetbagger?
200
The study of the human past based on written record.
What is history?
200
The location in which the South surrender to the North to end the Civil War.
What was Appomattox Court House?
200
The check point in which a Chinese immigrant coming to America would go through.
What was Angel Island?
200
The person who fought to end lynching in the South.
Who was Ida B. Wells-Barnett?
200
The muckraker who exposed the corrupt business practices of Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company.
Who was Ida Tarbell?
300
The first successful English colony in North America.
What was Jamestown?
300
A tragic Indian War that occurred in southeast Colorado.
What was the Sand Creek Massacre?
300
The average number of people per house within the housing provided by the factory bosses.
What was 24?
300
The 1823 policy statement that warned Europe to keep its hands out of the New World.
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
300
The canal that connected the Great Lakes to New York City.
What was the Erie Canal?
400
The person who wrote “Common Sense”.
Who was Thomas Paine?
400
A war fought between the US and Britain over the freedom of the seas.
What was the War of 1812?
400
The two Progressive reform measures that made it possible for the people to propose a law and have the people vote it into action.
What are initiatives and referendums?
400
The treaty that formally recognize the US as an independent nation.
What was the Treaty of Paris?
400
The war fought between England and American colonists versus France and Native American warriors for control of North America.
What was the French and Indian War?
500
The date the Declaration of Independence accepted.
What was July 4, 1776?
500
The amount of money that the US spent obtaining the land area known as the Louisiana Purchase
What was 15 million dollars?
500
The “boss” of the Tammany Hall “political machine”.
Who was William March Tweed?
500
A law, passed in 1882, that barred Chinese immigration for ten years and prevented the Chinese already in the country from becoming citizens.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
500
The date the Confederacy surrendered to the Union.
What was April 9, 1865?
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