The writers, poets and photographers that exposed to problems with society during the early 1900's.
What is Muckrakers?
100
The name of the large island based processing facility for the incoming immigrants to America
What is Ellis Island?
100
Eli Whitney
What is the name of the creator of the cotton gin?
100
The plan created to strangle the supply lines of the south.
What is the Anaconda plan?
100
The dispute over the fate of Kansas's statehood. Would it be a slave state or a free led to this event.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
200
A group of calvary that fought during the Spanish American war.
What are the rough riders?
200
Revolution, religious intolerance, land and finding better wages.
What are some push and pull factors for immigration?
200
A change in the production of parts that allowed for all parts to be standardized so that you could get a part that would fit multiple models of a device.
What are interchangeable parts?
200
The fort where the first battle of the Civil war happened.
What is Fort Sumner?
200
The agreement that established a imaginary line at the 30th parallel that separated slave from free regions of America.
What is Compromise of 1850?
300
"I aimed for their heads and i hit them in the stomach"
What is the famous quote by author Upton Sinclair?
300
The immigrants were often in the holds of the ships with bad livings conditions.
What were the conditions of the trip to america for most immigrants?
300
A more farm and country centered area of human habitation.
What is agricultural?
300
The General of the southern armies.
Who is General Robert E. Lee?
300
Ships with a metal protected exterior that made them ride low in the water and be very resilient to cannon fire.
What is an ironclad.
400
A brilliant conservationist that invited out Teddy Roosevelt to talk about protecting forests and began the sierra club.
Who is John Muir?
400
Sick, pregnant, old, deformed, or just offensive in any way.
What are some reasons that immigrants coming through Ellis island could be sent home?
400
I very tight packed and city based area of human habitation.
What is rural?
400
The Proclamation that freed the slaves from slavery.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
The location of John Brown's fatal attempt at a slave revolution.
What is Harper's Ferry?
500
What is the Act that would forever put into places checks and strictures to the safe processing of both food and drugs in america?
What is the food and drug act?
500
The belief that "old" immigrants that have been in america longer have more of a right to the american dream than "new" immigrants.
What is nativism?
500
16 hour shifts, child labor, subject to termination, and very low wages
What are some of the negative conditions of the industrial revolution?
500
The failed submarine experiment of the Civil war
What is the turtle?
500
The leader of the Union military during the Civil War.