Big Business & Railroads
This railroad connected the eastern and western United States and was completed in 1869.
Transcontinental Railroad
This immigration station mainly processed immigrants arriving from Europe.
Ellis Island
Workers from this country provided much of the labor for the Central Pacific Railroad.
China
Writers who exposed corruption and social problems during the Progressive Era were called this.
Muckrakers
These laws enforced racial segregation in the South.
Jim Crow Laws
The U.S. government gave railroad companies these to encourage railroad construction.
Land Grants
This immigration station mainly processed immigrants arriving from Asia.
Angel Island
Plains Indians depended heavily on herds of this animal for their way of life.
Buffalo/Bison
This reformer founded Hull House in Chicago.
Jane Addams
This 1896 Supreme Court case allowed racial segregation to continue.
Plessy v. Ferguson
This company became a powerful monopoly in the oil industry.
Standard Oil
During the late 1800s and early 1900s, more immigrants began arriving from these TWO regions of Europe.
Southern and Eastern Europe
Westward expansion caused many Native Americans to be forced to do this as settlers moved onto their lands.
relocate/move to new territories
This muckraker wrote The Jungle and exposed horrible conditions in the meatpacking industry.
Upton Sinclair
This amendment allowed Americans to directly elect their U.S. senators.
17th Amendment
In a famous political cartoon, Standard Oil is shown as this animal with tentacles reaching into government and other industries.
Octopus
This 1882 law restricted Chinese immigration into the United States.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Name all THREE of these conflicts/events involving Plains Indians: a famous battle, a spiritual movement, or an 1890 tragedy.
Little Bighorn, the Ghost Dance, & Wounded Knee
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle helped encourage passage of this food-safety law.
Pure Food and Drug Act
Initiative, referendum, and recall were Progressive reforms designed to give more power to this group.
voters/citizens
Give TWO ways the Transcontinental Railroad changed the U.S. economy.
Increased trade, lower transportation costs, new centers of commerce, a national market, or stronger economic ties between East and West
This labor leader is most closely associated with labor unions during the late 1800s.
Samuel Gompers
Explain TWO ways the Transcontinental Railroad harmed Plains Indians.
destruction of bison herds and loss of Native American land
Jane Addams and Upton Sinclair used different methods, but both were part of a movement trying to accomplish this larger goal.
reforming/fixing social problems caused by industrialization
Theodore Roosevelt created national forests and protected public lands as part of this Progressive goal.
Conservation