Immigrants
Industrialists
Native Americans
African Americans
Completely Random Knowledge
100

The poem "The New Colossus"  was written by whom?

Emma Lazarus

100

Term for the Late 1800's / Early 1900s meaning covered in a thin layer of gold

Gilded Age

100

John O'Sullivan proposed the idea of ___________ ___________ saying that it was Americans God given right to expand the country into the rest of the continent. 

Manifest Destiny

100

These Amendments to the Constitution are referred to as the Reconstruction Amendments

13th, 14th, 15th

100

The Unicorn is the national animal of what country?

Scotland

200

Why was most immigration from Europe cut off in the year 1914?

The outbreak of WWI

200

 Name the 5 tycoons of Industry we learned about in this unit

Rockefeller, Carnegie, Pullman, Vanderbilt, Morgan
200

This Native American Chief was opposed to American westward expansion because he believed that "no man created a line of demarcation on the land, and its no man's business to divide it."

Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce tribe

200

Two forms of voter suppression after the Reconstruction Amendments were....

poll taxes, literacy tests

200

The original Air Jordan's were released in what year?

1984

300

Immigration to the US in the early 1800's was mostly from which continent?

Europe

300

The theory that successful businesses will thrive, and poorer, less successful businesses will fail. "only the strong survive"

Social Darwinism

300

The law created the reservation system, relocating tribes to plots of land in the West. 

Indian Appropriation Act of 1851

300

This Amendment guaranteed the right to vote for all male citizens regardless of race.

15th Amendment

300

Where were the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights stored during WWII?

Fort Knox

400

Name 5 of the most heavily populated US cities in 1890...

Pittsburgh, philadelphia, St. Louis, Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Buffalo, 

400

This law was passed as the first American law regulating against the formation of monopolies

Sherman Anti-Trust Act
400

This law moved Native Americans from Florida and the Southeast west into Oklahoma

Indian Removal Act of 1830

400

This landmark court case made the concept of "separate but equal" Constitutional.

Plessy v. Ferguson

400

Where is the Sea of Tranquility located?

The moon

500

Why did immigration from Europe continue to decrease in 1917 after it was limited from WWI?

Literacy tests were required

500
The french phrase "laissez-faire" means what?

let it be    or   leave alone

500

This man started in the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and coined the phrase "Kill the Indian, Save the Man" 

Captain Richard H. Pratt
500

The "Jim Crow" Era got its name from what song? 

Jump Jim Crow

500

This country has the most vending machines per capita in the world.

Japan