The Growth of Cities
Immigration Issues
American Indians
Working on the Railroads
Into the West
100
The expansion of cities and/or an increase in the number of people living in them is given this name.
What is urbanization?
100
All working class immigrants who entered the United States through this immigration station in New York Harbor were required to show that they had a sponsor to assume financial responsibility for them.
What was Ellis Island?
100
In the late 1800s, Native Americans increasingly found their customs and way of life restricted as they were confined to these government-defined areas.
What are reservations?
100
This adjective is applied to railroads that cross the United States from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
What is transcontinental?
100
The surge in crime due to rapid population growth in mining towns led to the rise of these self-appointed law enforcers.
What were vigilantes?
200
These multistory buildings are divided into apartments to house as many residents as possible.
What are tenements?
200
Most immigrants who tried to enter the U.S. in the late 1800s through Angel Island in San Francisco Bay came from this nation.
What is China?
200
The structures seen in the picture below are emblematic of the nomadic way of life followed by many Native Americans, such as the Great Plains tribes.
What are tipis?
200
The invention of this timekeeping system, shown in the image below, made it possible to have consistent railway schedules across the country.
What are time zones?
200
This political party was formed in 1891 to advocate for a larger money supply and other economic reforms to benefit "the common man".
What was the Populist Party?
300
This term is used to describe the residential areas surrounding a city.
What are the suburbs?
300
The "new" immigrants who came to the United States in the late 1800s generally came from these regions of Europe.
What are Southern and Eastern Europe?
300
150-200 American Indians were killed in this incident, which took place when a Colorado cavalry officer led his soldiers against a group of Cheyenne and Arapahoe that he believed were planning to attack a U.S. Army fort.
What was the Sand Creek Massacre?
300
This term is used to describe government takeover of an industry, as the Populists advocated for the railroads in order to reduce shipping costs for farmers.
What is nationalize?
300
Using this method of ranching, cattle owners allow their livestock to roam and graze over a vast area of grassland.
What is the open-range system?
400
This is the name used to describe the movement of population from farming areas into cities.
What is rural-to-urban migration?
400
Third-class accommodations on a steamship, which were usually overcrowded and dirty, were known by this derogatory term.
What was steerage?
400
This war chief and spiritual leader of the Lakota tribes led the Sioux in several rebellions against the U.S. government during the 1860s.
Who was Sitting Bull?
400
This organization was created by Congress to regulate the railroads in response to complaints raised by the Grange about unfair pricing practices.
What is the Interstate Commerce Commission?
400
This 1862 law gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for five years.
What was the Homestead Act?
500
This American newspaper editor and publisher helped establish the pattern of the modern newspaper and develop investigative reporting.
Who was Joseph Pulitzer?
500
This legislation, passed by Congress in 1882, prohibited almost all immigration of workers from China.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
500
This 1890 confrontation between U.S. cavalry and the Sioux marked the end of Native American resistance to the reservation system.
What was the Battle of Wounded Knee?
500
Farmers were particularly angry about this railway pricing structure, which they saw as proof that the railroads were charging them too much to transport crops within regions where they held a monopoly.
What were short vs. long haul rates?
500
Public land was given by the federal government for building schools, roads, or railroads by means of these legal transfers.
What are land grants?