Under this Act, any individual settler paying a small filing fee could stake a claim to 160-acres of free land in the west, as long as his family "improved" the land by farming it and living on it
What is The Homestead Act?
100
social activist; founded the hull house in 1889 to assist Chicago immigrants
Who is Jane Adams?
100
opened the Henry street settlement house in New York in 1893
Who is Lillian Ward?
100
a way for farmers to get credit before the planting season by borrowing against the value for anticipated harvests
What is the crop lien system?
200
founder and prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, fled to the west to avoid religious persecution
What is Joseph Smith?
200
foremost promoter of black migration to the west
Who is Benjamin "Pap" Singleton?
200
chief in the Pacific Northwest; opposed white expansion westward and relocation reservations; captured by U.S. forces in 1877
Who is Chief Joseph?
200
19th president
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
200
21st president
Who is Chester Alan Arthur?
300
mostly civil war vets; nicknamed by the Indians; paid $13 a month
What is Buffalo Soldiers?
300
Scottish American business tycoon and owner of the Carnegie steel company in Pittsburg; used vertical integration to maintain market dominance
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
300
Chief who led a rebellion against white American settlement of the southwest in the 1870's and 1880's
Who is Geronimo?
300
developed the first safety elevator in 1852
Who is Elisha Graves Otis?
300
a federal law established in 1883 that stipulated that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit
What is Pendleton civil service reform act?
400
more than 200,000 Chinese arrived here between 1876 and 1890
What is California?
400
Founder of the standard oil company; used horizontal integration to buy out his competition
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
400
Sioux Chief who help defeat General George Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876
Who is Sitting Bull?
400
this act outlawed the tribal ownership of land and forced 160 acre homesteads in the hands of individual Indians and their families with the promise of future citizenship
What is The Dawes Act?
400
20th president; assassinated by Charles J Guiteau
Who is James A Garfield?
500
made a successful chilled-ironed plow was a sodbuster
Who is James Oliver?
500
Steamboat and Railroad tycoon; owner of the Biltmore House
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
500
Historian whose 1893 essay The Significance of the Frontier in American History argued that western development had an impact on U.S. social, political and economic development
Who is Frederick Jackson Turner?
500
opened it doors to mass immigration (island)
What is Ellis Island?
500
invented in 1874 that revolutionized the cattle business