Closing the Frontier
Populism
Big Industry
Immigration & Urbanization
Progressivism & Labor Unions
Amendments
Bonus
100
The Homestead Act offered 160 acres of land to any citizen willing to settle in which of these areas?
If you see this, you are correct!!
100
The Populist movement was started by people in this occupation.
Farmers
100
What was Henry Ford's "Claim to fame" invention?
The assembly line
100
New or Old Immigrant? Jewish man settling in the city
New!
100
What was the movement that wanted to prohibit the sale of alcohol?
The Temperance Movement
100
What was the 16th Amendment?
Income tax
100
What is the Land Ordinance of 1785?
A way for the federal government to survey and sell western land
200
With the massacre of buffalo populations, what did the Native Americans lose an important source of? (What did they use buffalo for?)
Food, Clothing, and an icon in their culture.
200
What was William Jennings Bryan's main point with the Speech "Cross of Gold"
Support for the free coinage of silver.
200
What does this photo depict? (One object = 1 factory)
Horizontal Integration
200
What did Jacob Rii's uncover with his photographs in his book "How the Other Side Lives"
The unsanitary and overcrowded conditions of tenements
200
Striking, Picketing, Boycotts, and collective bargaining are all forms of __________ _______ tactics
Labor Union
200
What was the 17th Amendment?
Popular Election of Senators
200
What was the North West Ordinance?
A way for territories to become states.
300
What occurred at the Battle of Wounded Knee?
A group of Native Americans was massacred by the US Army.
300
Why do farmers want Bimetallism?
They believed the expansion of currency would increase crop prices and solve the money shortage.
300
Who benefited most from the idea of Social Darwinism
Big Industries Owners
300
How did Boss Tweed from the Tammany Hall Political Machine get the votes of poor people?
By offering them services!
300
Who created the U.S. Forest Service?
President Theodore Roosevelt
300
What was the 18th amendment?
Prohibition of the sale of liquor
300
How did WEB Dubois's beliefs differ from Booker T. Washington's?
If you see this, you are correct!
400
Who were the Buffalo Soldiers and how did they differ from Exodusters?
Black people who fought in the US Army on the Western Frontier. Exodusters were simply black people who settled in the West.
400
What was the Interstate Commerce Act? (What precedent did it set?)
This sets a precedent for the regulation of business by the federal government
400
How would a Big industry owner refute the claim that he is a robber baron?
He could explain the jobs he created or not that he is a philanthropist
400
Why did Americans feel the need to implement the Chinese Exclusion Act?
They believed the Chinese were taking their jobs.
400
Who wrote The Jungle and what was it about?
Upton Sinclair and Sanitation concerns in the meat packing industry
400
What was the 19th Amendment?
Women's right to vote
400
Imagine you're in a country that doesn't have freedom of religion, speech, and freedom from illegal search and seizures... and then you hear about America. Would those be push factors or pull factors?
Pull Factors
500
What key vocab term embodies the policy type of the Dawes Severalty Act?
Assimilation Policy
500
The Election 1890: William ___________, a republican VS William _______ _____________, a democrat (populist)
William McKinley vs William Jennings Bryan
500
Who passed the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Theodore Roosevelt
500
What is Nativism?
The belief that people born in your own country are better than people born in different countries
500
Why did workers at the Pullman House go on strike?
Employees received wage cuts and were already in cycles of debt with their employers.
500
What does suffrage mean?
Voting rights?
500
What were the Navigation Acts imposed on Colonial America by the British?
British laws that restricted colonial trade to benefit England by requiring colonists to ship goods only on English vessels and trade primarily with England.
600
Why did the US Government provide land grants to railroad companies?
To stimulate industrial expansion and economic growth
600
What is one thing the Interstate Commerce Act and the Sherman Antitrust Act have in common?
They both attempted to regulate the power of monopolies
600
If a company own all steps of the manufacturing and selling of a product, it is called: ______________
Vertical integration
600
What did Ellis Island become for all immigrants seeking America?
An iconic symbol of the immigrant experience and desire for the American Dream
600
What was the Sherman Antitrust Act?
The Sherman Antitrust Act (1890) was the first major U.S. federal law that prohibited monopolies and anti-competitive business practices to protect free market competition
600
What is the 21st Amendment?
Repeal of Prohibition
600
When is Mr. Busche's birthday, and what is his favorite type of candy and also coffee?
March 28th (This Saturday) and Sugar Babies or Good and Plenty. Also From Starbucks: A Brown sugar shaken oat milk expresso with the crunchy bits in it.