The West
Populists and Progressives
Big Industry
Immigration & Urbanization
Court Cases
Amendments
100
The Homestead Act offered 160 acres of land to any citizen willing to settle in which of these areas?
If you see this, you are correct!!
100
The Populist movement was started by people in this occupation.
Farmers
100
What was Henry Ford's "Claim to fame" invention?
The assembly line
100
New or Old Immigrant? Jewish man from Slovakia settling in the city
New!
100
2000 - The court case that ended the presidental election in this year and stopped counting Florida's ballots
Bush V Gore
100
What is the 13th Amendment?
Slaves are free
200
With the massacre of buffalo populations, what did the Native Americans lose an important source of?
Food, Clothing, and an icon in their culture.
200
What was William Jennings Bryan's main point with the Speech "Cross of Gold"
Support for the free coinage of silver.
200
What does this photo depict? (One object = 1 factory)
Horizontal Integration
200
What did Jacob Riis uncover with his photographs in his book "How the Other Side Lives"
The unsanitary and overcrowded conditions of tenements
200
1944- The case that said Japanese Americans could be interned (locked up) due to "safety concerns" in WW2
Korematsu vs US
200
What is the 10th Amendment?
Anything not written in the constitution is left to the states
300
What occurred at the Battle of Wounded Knee?
A group of Native Americans was massacred by the US Army.
300
What is the lady who wrote the critique of Rockefeller named?
Ida Tarbell
300
The idea that rich American are "strong" and should succeed and get wealthy and poor Americans and people of other areas are "weak" and should be allowed to fail is called
Social Darwinism
300
How did Boss Tweed from the Tammany Hall Political Machine get the votes of poor people?
By offering them services!
300
1954- The case that ended de jure segregation in America
Brown vs Board of Ed
300
What is the 1st Amendment?
Freedom of speech, assembly, press, etc
400
Who were the Buffalo Soldiers?
Black people who fought in the US Army on the Western Frontier against natives.
400
What is a muckraker?
a reform-minded investigative journalist, writer, or photographer who exposes corruption, scandal, and injustice in established institutions.
400
How would a Big industry owner refute the claim that he is a robber baron?
He could explain the jobs he created or say that he is a philanthropist
400
Why did Americans feel the need to implement the Chinese Exclusion Act?
They believed the Chinese were taking their jobs.
400
1973 - The case that said women can legally get an abortion
Roe v Wade
400
What was the 19th Amendment?
Women's right to vote
500
What is the word for forcing Natives to be more like the whites?
Assimilation
500
What was Sinclair's "The Jungle" written about
Unsanitary meat packing plants
500
Rockefeller was the big boss of what company?
Standard Oil
500
What is Nativism?
The belief that people born in your own country are better than people born in different countries
500
1803 - The court case that established Judicial Review
Marbury v Madison
500
What is the 2nd Amendment?
Right to bear arms
600
What was the Act called that forced Native Americans in the Great Plains onto their own parcel of land?
The Dawes Act
600
What is the movement called that wanted to limit or end the sale of alcohol?
Temperance
600
If a company own all steps of the manufacturing and selling of a product, it is called: ______________
Vertical integration
600
What is the name of the landing point for immigrants in New York Harbor?
Ellis Island
600
1857- The case that says slaves were not and could not be citizens
Dred Scott v Sanford
600
What is the 21st Amendment?
Repeal of Prohibition