People
Inventor of the light bulb & phonograph
Who is Thomas Edison?
Animal that is important to Native American way of life & is hunted nearly to extinction
What are the buffalo?
Processing center for immigrants in New York
What is Ellis Island?
Groups that formed to advocate for workers' rights
What are labor unions?
Compromise that balanced representation between large & small states.
What is the Great Compromise?
Founder of Standard Oil
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Forced assimilation of Native American children
What are Native American Boarding schools?
Processing center for immigrants in California
What is Angel Island?
Invention that led to the end of cowboys & open range
What is barbed wire?
First plan of government for the United States that had a weak federal government
What are the Articles of Confederation?
Founder of billion-dollar steel company
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Battle where Native Americans killed all 2,000 white soldiers
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Law that restricts Chinese immigrants for 10 years
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Buying up smaller businesses to eliminate competition
What is a monopoly?
He was elected president through a secret agreement that ended Reconstruction.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
Inventor of the telephone
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
The final battle of the Native American Wars
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
The belief that America is intended for white Americans born in the U.S.
What is Nativism?
Largest & most important labor union during the 19th century
What is the American Federation of Labor?
British policy of allowing the colonies to govern themselves as long as they provided natural resources
What is salutary neglect?
American general who led the 7th Cavalry during the Indian Wars
Who is General Custer?
Native American tribe that resists being forced onto reservations?
Who are the Sioux?
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Controlling different stages of supply chain for a good or service to lower costs.
What is vertical integration?
Fight over states' rights when South Carolina tried to cancel out a federal law over tariffs
What is the Nullification Crisis?
Who is Samuel Gompers?
Famous Sioux leader who fought against the U.S. Army
Who is Sitting Bull?
The countries that most immigrants came from during the 19th century
What is Southern and Eastern Europe?
Combining businesses to control the market and limit competition
What is a trust?
John Adams passed this law to prevent people from criticizing him
What are Alien & Sedition Acts?