first college exclusively for African American males established in the south after the Civil War
What is Morehouse College
100
Ellis Island
When immigrants entered the United States on the East Coast they came through a processing center on
100
Angel Island
The West Coast immigrants came through a processing center on
100
Pullman Strike
This strike in 1894 was one of the most significant work stoppages in American History. It crippled the railroad industry and crippled the overall US economy. Furthermore, intervention by both the US government and military was required before this issue was resolved.
100
Panama Canal
This famous canal constructed in Latin America by the French and Americans between 1881 and 1914 was engineering marvel that created a way to quickly transport goods from the Atlantic to the Pacific without having to travel around South America
200
13th, 14th, and 15th, Amendments
What is the civil war amendments
200
Phonograph Motion Pictures and Light Bulb
What are three inventions Thomas Edison invented?
200
many sought to escape religious persecution in their own Country and famine and land shortages throughout Europe
Why was there an abundance of European immigrants arriving in America in the late 1800’s?
200
The Jungle
This infamous book by Upton Sinclair led to direct federal oversight of the meat packing industry
200
Thirst for new economic markets
Desire for military strength and super power status
A belief in the cultural superiority of the Anglo-Saxon culture
What stimulated US imperialism/expansionism
300
Radical leaders felt President Johnson was not carrying out his Constitutional obligation to enforce the Reconstruction Act
Why was Andrew Johnson impeached
300
China
What foreign country provided the greatest number of laborers in the building of the transcontinental railroad?
300
Samuel Gompers
This man was the founder as well as the first president of the American Federation of Labor. (
300
Jane Addams
This lady reformer and progressive founded the Hull House
300
Chinese Exclusion Act
Anti-Asian sentiment developed on the west coast after many jobs were lost to Asian immigrants, which led directly to the passage of this law by Congress
400
Ulysses Grant ran as an independent candidate for the Presidency after the Republican Party passed him over for reelection
What did not happen in the Presendential Election of 1876?
400
John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil Company was owned and operated by
400
Native Americans
What group of people did Western Expansion affect in the most negative way?
400
Plessy Vs. Ferguson
This famous Supreme Court case established the criteria for “separate but equal” in the education system of the United States
400
Teddy Roosevelt
This president greatly expanded our national parks system and was a true leader in the conservation movement
500
Samuel J. Tilden was to be named Vice President
What was not part of the Compromise of 1877 that resulted from the Presidential election of 1876
500
west
What area of the country did the transcontinental railroad help to develop the most
500
Custer’s Last Stand at Little Bighorn
The Dawes Act (Americanize Native Americans)
The mass destruction of the Buffalo by American hunters
What led to the Battle of Wounded Knee
500
John Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company
Ida Tarbell was a muckraker journalist who exposed the crime and corruption of
500
the 18th Amendment which ban alcohol
the 17th Amendment which called for the direct election of US senators
improved working and living conditions for the poor