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Throwback Thursday!
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He owned over 90% of America's oil industry and would laugh if you complained about high gas prices.

John D. Rockefeller

100

The Statue of Liberty would greet European immigrants on their way to what American island?

Ellis Island

100

This invention by John Deere would allow farmers to dig through tough prairie sod without snapping a shovel.

Steel Plow

100

This American president would hate to be called Teddy, but he can't complain at the moment.

Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt

100

The US tank model from the hit movie "Fury" was named after this Union general

William T. Sherman

200

John D. Rockefeller founded this company and gave it a rather simplistic name.

Standard Oil Company

200

These workers were regularly paid less for their work on the Transcontinental Railroad despite dangerous work conditions.

Asian Workers

200

This animal would be hunted to near extinction for its valuable fur and bones.

Buffalo

200

This crime reporter and photographer would expose the overcrowded and filthy living conditions of lower-class Americans in New York

Jacob Riis

200

This constitutional compromise ensured that slaves could be counted in calculating the number of votes a state could have in the House of Representatives.

Three-Fifths Compromise

300

This Scottish businessman would create the first billion-dollar company, and donate most of it back to universities and colleges.

Andrew Carnegie

300

This immigrant group to the United States commonly came from northern and western Europe and spoke English

Old/Early Immigrants

300

This American belief stated that the United States should own all of North America from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

Manifest Destiny

300

This writer stated that he aimed for America's heart but instead hit its stomach in reference to his novel: "The Jungle".

Upton Sinclair

300

This famous speech begins with the words: "Four Score and Seven Years Ago".

The Gettysburg Address

400

This steel-making process would be used by Andrew Carnegie to produce cheap and quick steel.

The Bessemer Process

400

The US government would make use migrant workers to complete what major infrastructure project?

The Transcontinental Railroad

400

This Lakota leader would be killed in a shoot-out between his supporters and Indian Police after encouraging his people to perform the "Ghost Dance".

Sitting Bull

400

Sharing a name with a famous Simpsons character, this man wanted to sue for the end of the Jim Crow Laws.

Homer Plessy

400

This French general who assisted Washington during the American Revolution 

Marquis De Lafayette

500

If Chick-fil-A owned all they needed to make chicken nuggets, from farm to kitchen, they would be making use of what form of integration?

Vertical Integration

500
This immigrant group would commonly come from European countries like Russia, Italy, and Austria-Hungary

New Immigrants.

500

The US Seventh Cavalry would fight in this final battle between the US Army and the Plains Indians.

Battle of Wounded Knee

500

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded by this Harvard graduate.

W.E.B DuBois

500

This colonial-era economic system ensured that colonies sent raw materials to their mother country and finished goods were sold to the colonies in return.

Mercantalism

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