This encouraged Indians to give up their tribal life, become farmers and eventually American citizens.
What is the Dawes Act?
100
This is how most Native Americans viewed American pioneers and soliders.
What is invaders?
100
Term that means to “leave business alone”
What is Laissez-faire?
100
Southern & Eastern European workers moving into the U.S. to work in factories
What are "new immigrants?"
100
This first battle of the American Revolution was started over the right to bear arms.
What is Lexington and Concord?
200
U.S. was divided into 4 separate time zones,
The west was open for settlement,
Abuses led to government regulation
What is the Railroad?
200
This animal was important in Native American culture, supplying everything they needed.
What is the buffalo?
200
Captain of Industry for Steel
Who is Andrew Carnegie
200
Main immigration center for European Immigrants entering the U.S. during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries
What is Ellis Island?
200
This event caused early Americans to believe the a stronger government was needed, and led to the writing of the US Constitution.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
300
The law the offered free land to anyone who claimed it.
What is the Homestead Act?
300
Specific areas promised to the Native Americans. Later moved or taken back by the US government.
What are reservations?
300
Captain of Industry for oil.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
300
Main immigration center for Asian Immigrants entering the U.S.
What is Angel Island?
300
The president famous for saying, "He has made his decision, now let him enforce it." leading to the Trail of Tears.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
400
The belief that God gave Americans the responsibility and right to control the American continent from coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
400
The Cheyenne and Sioux work together to finally defeat General Custer.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
400
Justified why some Industrialist were rich while their workers were not.
Also provided the “survival of the fittest” belief to the Industrial Revolution
What is Social Darwanism?
400
The three main reasons people immigrated to the United States.
What are religious persecution, rising population of Europe, and work (the American Dream.)
400
This state was the first to secede after the election of Abraham Lincoln, leading to the Civil War.
What is South Carolina?
500
Free Unlimited Coinage of Silver,
Graduated Income Tax,
Government ownership of railroads
What are the goals of the populist movement?
500
In the final major battle of the Indian Wars, the US army kills over 350 Sioux warriors and leaves their bodies on the ground to freeze.
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?
500
Employers hostility towards this group limited their growth
What are labor unions?
500
This is what killed most immigrants who died on the way to the United States.
What is disease?
500
This was the location of the final major battle of the American Revolution.