The Wild West
Immigrants
Philosophy, Art, Literature
Native Americans
Social Movements
100
The three "frontiers" of the West.
What are mining, farming, and ranching?
100
Two religions/denominations that were prominent in the movement of New Immigrants.
What are Judaism and Catholicism?
100
Master satirist who scorned America's corruptness and coined the term "the Gilded Age".
Who is Mark Twain?
100
One of the treaties that whites signed with Native Americans in the 1860's.
What are the treaties at Fort Laramie and Fort Atkinson?
100
Two of the leading women's rights figures of the time.
Who are Victoria Woodhull, Carrie Chapman Catt, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Susan B. Anthony, etc?
200
One invention that allowed the beef industry to expand.
What are refrigerated cars, factories in Chicago and Kansas City, etc?
200
This denomination was the most supportive of the New Immigrants.
What is Catholicism?
200
The media movement that involved selling stories featuring sex and scandal.
What is sensationalism?
200
The instance in which Colonel Chivington massacred 400 innocent Native American men, women, and children.
What is Sand Creek?
200
Founded by John Russell, this political party was a keystone of anti-alcohol sentiment in the US.
What is the National Prohibition Party?
300
The man whose stirring essay lamented the closing of the frontier.
Who is Frederick Jackson Turner?
300
The New Immigrants came from these regions or specific countries.
What are Southern Europe (Italy) and Eastern Europe?
300
One of these men believed in the separation of whites and blacks while the other believed in complete equality of the two races.
Who are Booker T. Washington and WEB Du Bois?
300
The Native American tribe that most resistant to the reservation system.
What is the Apache?
300
Two forms of entertainment during the late 19th century.
What are Wild West shows, circuses, wrestling, baseball, basketball, etc?
400
The movement founded by Oliver Kelly that sought to improve the lives of farmers with social/educational activities.
What is the Grange?
400
The immigrant group that primarily constructed the railroads.
What is the Chinese?
400
The major artistic movement of this period.
What is realism?
400
The woman who brought attention to the Native American struggle with her books A Century of Dishonor and Ramona.
Who is Helen Hunt Jackson?
400
One of the leading newspaper publications of the period.
What is the New York World, the New York Monthly, Scribner's Monthly, etc?
500
The major professions that women pursued in the West, where they gained the vote before the rest of the country.
What are operators of flophouses and prostitutes?
500
The Unionist response to immigration?
What is frustration with the immigrant's acceptance of low wages and poor conditions?
500
This movement was centered around huge lectures that the public had access to.
What is the Chautauqua Movement?
500
The school that was founded with the goal of total assimilation of Native American children.
What is the Carlisle Indian School?
500
The man who wrote the Uncle Tom's Cabin of anti-Darwinism.
Who is General Lewis Wallace?
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