What is they were used to keep African Americans from exercising their rights (specifically, the right to vote).
100
This industry was deeply impacted by the expansion of railroads in the United States because it was the largest purchaser of the product.
What is steel?
100
This was the busiest immigration station in the United States - more than 40% of Americans can trace ancestors through here.
What is Ellis Island?
100
List one reason why the creation of the light bulb by Thomas Edison was significant.
Allowed people to work at night
Allowed people leisure activities at night
Safer than other methods
100
What was significant about the Transcontinental Railroad?
It connected the east coast to the west coast.
200
What was the purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau?
It was designed to help newly freed slaves adjust from slavery to freedom
200
What was one NEGATIVE effect of the expansion of the railroads in the United States?
What is moving Native Americans off their lands, pollution, loss of habitat
200
What organization did Samuel Gompers create to help workers get better working conditions?
What is the American Federation of Labor?
200
What effect did the phonograph have on American lives?
It allowed people to be able to listen to music and speeches without being present at the event
Gave more people the opportunity to experience music (poor, etc.)
200
What group used scare tactics and violence to keep African Americans from exercising their new rights after the Civil War?
What is the Ku Klux Klan.
300
What is significant about Morehouse College?
It was one of the first African American colleges.
300
Why were most of the workers who built the railroads Chinese immigrants?
They were willing to work for low wages.
300
Why did the United States military attack the Native Americans at Wounded Knee?
They were trying to take back the land that was given to the Native Americans.
300
What was significant about the creation of the motion picture camera?
It allowed events to be filmed
Leisure activities
News
300
What President was impeached for failing to enforce Republican Reconstruction policies?
Who is President Johnson?
400
This Reconstruction plan would have been lenient on the south and allowed it to reenter the Union quickly.
What is Presidential Reconstruction?
400
How did the railroads make possible the growth of big business?
They allowed goods to be shipped quicker
Goods could get to new/more markets
400
What was one outcome of the Battle of Wounded Knee?
Many Native Americans were killed.
Native Americans stopped fighting the government after this battle.
The Native Americans were forced off their lands.
400
Overall, what impact did Thomas Edison's inventions have on the daily life of Americans?
It made their lives easier
Gave them more opportunities for leisure activities
400
What was the idea of "40 acres and a mule?"
That land from plantations would be given to freed slaves (40 acres)
500
What were the terms of the Compromise of 1877 (that ended Reconstruction - two parts).
Republican Rutherford B. Hayes would be president and troops would be removed from the south.
500
How did the expansion of the railroads lead to westward expansion?
It allowed people to travel cheaper and faster
Helped connect small towns and cities
500
How did John D. Rockefeller create a monopoly with his Standard Oil Company?
He purchased his competition until he owned most (90%) of the oil refineries in the U.S.
500
List one positive and one negative consequence of industrial growth in the United States.
Answers will vary
500
Describe the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.
13th - Abolishes slavery
14th - makes former slaves citizens; equal protection under the law
15th - gives all males the right to vote