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Americans Move West
The Growth of
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Cities and Immigration
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100
At the start of the Civil War, most of the 35,000 miles of railroad track in the U.S. was east of this river. (page 218)
What is the Mississippi River?
100
In his lifetime, this famous inventor received 1,093 patents in the United States. (page 236)
Who is Thomas Alva Edison?
100
This group made up 69% of all immigrants between 1861 and 1880. (page 255)
Who were immigrants from Northern and Western Europe?
100
This is a large area of level or slightly rolling land. (page 220)
What is a prairie?
100
This is a group of workers who get together to try to get higher pay and better working conditions. (page 247)
What is a labor union?
200
The first transcontinental railroad was joined together at this place on May 10, 1869. (page 219)
What is Promontory Point, Utah?
200
The inventor of the telephone in 1876. (page 237)
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
200
This is the place where most immigrants entered the United States during the late 1800s and early 1900s. (page 256)
What is Ellis Island in New York City?
200
Indians were forced to move onto these. (page 222)
What are reservations?
200
This is a neighborhood where people of the same race, religion, or country live. (page 257)
What is a ghetto?
300
These two Native American Chiefs defeated Colonel George Custer and 225 U.S. Army soldiers at the battle of Little Big Horn. (page 224)
Who are Chiefs Chief Sitting Bull Crazy Horse?
300
People who buy stocks or shares in a company are part owners of the company and are called this. (page 241)
What are stockholders?
300
In 1890, this "HISTORY FACT" was true about four out of five children in New York. (page 257)
What is they were born in another country or had a parent who was born in another country?
300
These were created by the discovery of gold and silver in Colorado. (page 230)
What are boom towns?
300
The growth of the steel industry and the development of electric power made it possible to build these in big cities. (page 259)
What are skyscrapers?
400
This was a part of the DANGEROUS daily life of miners in the 1870s. (page 230)
What is poison gases, cave-ins, and accidents?
400
This was paper that workers used in place of real money to buy goods in company stores. (page 246)
What is scrip?
400
This refers to an agreement made in 1908 that limited the number of Japanese immigrants entering the United States. (page 263)
What is a "Gentlemen's Agreement"?
400
The U.S. government grants these to inventors so they can sell their invention. (page 236)
What are patents?
400
This is a feeling of citizens who are against immigrants. (page 263)
What is nativism?
500
The year that the first transcontinental railroad was finished. (page 216)
What is 1869?
500
Usually they were under 13 years of age and worked all day picking rocks from coal as it flowed beneath their feet on coal chutes. (page 247)
Who were breaker boys?
500
In 1909, African Americans and white Americans formed this group to fight racism in America. (page 267)
What is the NAACP?
500
These are formed by investors and tend to control or monopolize an entire industry. (page 240).
What are corporations?
500
Between 1890 and 1900, more than 200,000 African Americans did this from the South to the North. (page 265)
What is "migrated".