Westward Expansion
What 1862 law granted 160 acres of land to settlers willing to farm it for five years?
The Homestead Act
What system confined Native Americans to designated lands to control their movements?
The Reservation System
What term did Henry Grady use to describe the South’s attempt at industrialization?
The New South
What major transportation innovation allowed for faster nationwide shipping of goods?
The Railroad
What famous Wild West showman toured the country with reenactments of frontier battles?
Buffalo Bill Cody
What federal law provided land grants to railroad companies to build the Transcontinental Railroad?
The Pacific Railroad Act
What 1887 law aimed to assimilate Native Americans by dividing reservations into individual plots?
The Dawes Act
What agricultural system kept many freed African Americans and poor whites in cycles of debt?
Sharecropping
When one company owns an entire field of business
Monopoly
What new spectator sport became wildly popular in the late 1800s, with teams like the Cincinnati Red Stockings?
Baseball
What was the name of the movement that emerged due to farmers facing high railroad shipping prices?
The National Grange Movement
What movement involved a ritual dance that Native Americans believed would bring back their ancestors and drive away white settlers?
The Ghost Dance Movement
What 1896 Supreme Court case upheld racial segregation under “separate but equal”?
Plessy v. Ferguson
What industry benefited greatly from the invention of the Bessemer Process?
Steel Industry
What famous inventor wowed crowds with his electric light displays at world fairs?
Thomas Edison
What 1870s Colorado gold rush led to the rapid growth of cities?
Answer: Pike’s Peak Gold Rush (accept Denver and Boulder)
In what 1890 event were approximately 150 Lakota Sioux killed by U.S. soldiers?
Answer: The Wounded Knee Massacre
What female journalist and activist exposed the horrors of lynching in the South?
Ida B. Wells
Law that restricted Chinese immigration
Chinese Exclusion Act
What type of live entertainment featuring comedy, music, and variety acts was the Netflix of its day?
Vaudeville
What act was passed in 1886 to regulate railroad rates and establish the Interstate Commerce Commission?
The Interstate Commerce Act (Accept Commerce Act)
What act in 1871 officially ended the recognition of Native American tribes as sovereign nations?
The Indian Appropriation Act
What African American leader promoted economic self-sufficiency rather than immediate political rights?
Booker T. Washington
What business practice involved secret agreements between companies to fix prices?
What best-selling novel of the 19th century was about a dog’s adventures in the Klondike Gold Rush?
Call of the Wild by Jack London