Westward Expansion
What did the Homestead Act Provide to settlers?
What is free/cheap land.
What did Thomas Edison create?
What is the "Light bulb"
Who had a monopoly in the Steel Industry?
Who is "Andrew Carnegie".
Who wrote a book called, "The Jungle" which exposed the meatpacking industry?
Who is "Upton Sinclair".
What did Theodore Roosevelt pass?
What is "The Sherman Anti-Trust Act".
What were the primary objectives of the Dawes Act?
What is "Promote Cultural Assimilation"
What good did the Bessemer Process produce?
What is "Steel".
Who got voter support from immigrants?
Who are "Political Bosses".
1.Who wanted to help assimilate immigrants?
2. What did she form to teach immigrants English and make them part of the American culture.
Who is "Jane Addams".
What are "Settlement Houses".
Upton Sinclair's book "The Jungle" inspired two laws to be passed. What two laws were passed after exposing the meatpacking industry?
What is "Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food & Drug Act".
The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed because?
American people feared the Chinese immigrants were stealing jobs from the American citizens.
What did Alexander Graham Bell invent?
What is the "Telephone".
What were "Captains of Industry" often called?
Who are "Robber Barons".
1. Who formed the NAACP?
2. Who wanted African Americans to use vocational skills?
1.Who is "W.E.B. DuBois".
2. Who is "Booker T. Washington".
What was banned in the Progressive Era?
What is "Child Labor".
What did the Transcontinental Railroads move?
What are People and Goods.
What was made a major industry after there was a need to process cattle?
What was a "meatpacking industry"
What is the difference between a Political Boss & a Nativist?
Political Bosses use immigrants for votes, and Nativists dislike foreigners
1. What was the name of people who were investigative journalists?
2. Name two investigative journalists.
Who are "Muckrakers".
Who is "Upton Sinlcair and Jacob Riis".
What was the 19th amendment?
What is "Women's Suffrage (right to vote)".
1. What was another name for a Third Party formed by people like the farmers?
1. Who is "The Populist Party".
__________ was America's first big business aiding in transportation.
What is "the Transcontinental Railroads".
1. What are monopolies?
2. What was an example of a monopoly during the Gilded Age?
1. One company that controls an entire industry
2. Examples: Andrew Carnegie’s steel company, Rockefeller’s oil company, the main railroad lines that led West
Who fought for women's suffrage and the right for women to vote?
Who is "Susan B. Anthony".
What did Woodrow Wilson create in 1916 to protect the outdoors and wildlife?
What is "National Park Service".