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7th Grade Review
100
This industry grew because it provided the best material for building.
What is steel?
100
Boss Tweed was famous for his role in leading this specific organization.
What is Tammany Hall?
100
This Mnemonic tool helps to remember the 16th through 19th amendments.
What is "Tax Senators Drunken Wives?"
100
This Constitutional change gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
100
This was the main reason the north fought the south during the Civil War.
What is "preserve the Union?"
200
These areas grew because they offered the most job opportunities.
What are cities?
200
European immigrants mostly arrived at Ellis Island. Asian immigrants arrived here.
What is Angel Island?
200
This word specifically describes these three people: Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, Jacob Riis.
What are muckrakers?
200
This is an example of what some historians call a "robber baron."
Who are Andrew Carnegie, John Rockefeller, or Cornelius Vanderbilt?
200
This group sought to keep African Americans out of office.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
300
This new way to sell various products all in one place developed in the late 1800s, along with mail order catalogs and rural deliveries.
What are department stores?
300
These helped those people living in poverty in the cities.
What is a settlement house?
300
This is the nickname for leaders who break up trusts or monopolies.
What is a trustbuster?
300
This made the process of getting a government job more fair, allowing the most qualified person to get the job.
What is Pendleton Civil Service Act? (or civil service exams)
300
This is the desire of many Americans to expand westward.
What is manifest destiny?
400
This was the new technique developed to make steel from iron.
What is the Bessemer Process?
400
Hull House was founded in this city.
What is Chicago?
400
This law was passed to stop the growth of monopolies.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act? (or Clayton Anti-Trust Act)
400
Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst were successful making these because more Americans had learned to read.
What are newspapers?
400
This is the name of the last major Native American victory against the U.S. Army.
What is the Battle of Little Big Horn?
500
This nickname for the American Industrial Age reflected the success of only a small minority of Americans.
What is the Gilded Age?
500
He was a famous ragtime musician.
Who is Scott Joplin?
500
Theodore Roosevelt used the Sherman Antitrust Act to break up this huge company.
What is Standard Oil?
500
This was a prominent labor union during the late 19th century.
What are the Knights of Labor, Railroad Union, or American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
500
Along with the Transcontinental Railroad and steamboat, the construction of this helped to get more people and goods to the west.
What is the Erie Canal?