Westward Expansion
Southern Changes
Inventions/Inventors
Politics
Wild Card
100
Why did the federal government provide land grants to railroad companies in the late 1800s?
To encourage industrial and economic growth
100
What were Southern laws called that targeted freed slaves?
Jim Crow Laws
100
The inventor of the electric lightbulb.
Thomas Edison
100
This is a list of demands from the Populist Party Platform of 1892. What ultimate goal did the Populists want to achieve with these demands? 
to raise crop prices by increasing the amount of money in circulation
100
What was the name of the Era in which a few men became billionaires, inventions led to industrialization, and America grew rapidly?
The Gilded Age
200
How did completion of the transcontinental railroad impact the buffalo population in the United States?
Railroad owners paid hunters to poach buffalo that threatened their rails.
200
During the movement known as the Great Migration, why did many African Americans leave the South?
They hoped to escape racial discrimination and obtain better jobs in northern factories.
200
Alexander Graham Bells invention that helped with faster communication.
The telephone
200
What was the most common tactic used by political machines to gain support from new immigrants in the late 1800s?
Providing the immigrants with services and aid.
200
This chart shows some differences between the immigrants who came before 1870 and those who came after. What does this chart indicate about the experience of "new" immigrants to the United States? 
They had a more difficult time blending into American culture than earlier immigrants.
300
What was the government's main motivation for enacting the Homestead Act of 1862?
to encourage settlement in the western territories
300
How did the practice of sharecropping perpetuate an inferior social status for African Americans?
It kept African Americans in a cycle of poverty and debt to white men.
300
Who was an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist that was recorded as the first female self-made millionaire based by developing and marketing a line of cosmetics and hair care products for Black women.
Madam C.J. Walker
300
This Act forced Native Americans to lose their culture and traditions as they were confined to reservations and forced to farm as a way to assimilate.
The Dawes Act
300
This quote is from an advocate of Social Darwinism. How might a supporter of the Social Gospel Movement respond to this quote? 
That may be; however, it is our duty as Christians to aid those in need of help.
400
This 1901 photograph shows Native American students learning a new skill at a boarding school. What policy led to scenes like the one in this photograph? 
assimilation
400
How did Booker T. Washington’s rhetoric differ from that of other civil rights advocates of the Progressive Era?
He advocated economic improvements over political rights.
400
Who was a Serbian-American inventor, engineer, and physicist who made significant contributions to the development of modern alternating current (AC) electricity.
Nikola Tesla
400
This is a quote from Supreme Court Justice John Harlan, the only dissenting justice in the Plessy v. Ferguson case. Justice Harlan’s opinion foreshadowed what consequence of the case? 
The rise of Jim Crow laws in the South
400
Which action demonstrates the message of this article? 
Andrew Carnegie gives money to set up libraries and cultural centers.
500
List two Push and pull factors for immigration in the mid to late 1800's.
Push factors like economic hardship and persecution, along with Pull factors such as job opportunities and land availability.
500
Read the quote and answer the question. What is an example of the "color line" to which DuBois refers in this quotation? 
de facto segregation in schools, workplaces, and housing
500
Who invented a process that allowed steel to become harder and more useful?
Henry Bessemer
500
Why does the cartoonist compare the Gilded Age to the Middle Ages? 
Because during both times, the poor were forced to give much of their earnings to the wealthy.
500
What was the term for the back office deal Rutherford B. Hayes made with Southern Democrats to ensure he would win the presidency after the election of 1877?
The Wormley Agreement, the Tilden-Hayes Compromise, the Bargain of 1877, or the Corrupt Bargain