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This U.S. legislation aimed at Native Americans wiped out tribal ownership of property and granted 160 acres to heads of families.

What is DAWES SEVERALTY ACT?

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a sensational, often lurid style of reporting of the news.
What is yellow journalism?
100
This was one of the few third parties that gained national attention. It was formed by farmers upset about high interest rates and unfair shipping practices.
What is POPULISM/POPULIST PARTY?
100
The idea put forth by Andrew Carnegie that the wealthy should use their resources to help society.
What is Gospel of Wealth
100

He argued for the "Frontier Thesis" postulating that through settling new territories, Americans had benefited through stimulating individualism, nationalism, and democracy. 

What is FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER?

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The United States government's outlawing of the Indian Sun (Ghost) Dance in 1890 resulted in this battle.
What is BATTLE OF WOUNDED KNEE?
200
This gave the United States' right to intervene in Cuba to maintain peace and law and order.
What is the Platt Amendment?
200
Because existing city government structures were so disorganized and chaotic, and services to help immigrants assimilate into American society, these organizations provided help to immigrants in return for political support.
What is POLITICAL MACHINE?
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This business practiced promoted the success of Standard Oil, whereby they bought out all their competition.

What is Horizontal Integration?

200
The two factors that did most to stimulate rapid western settlement were....
What is Removal of Native Americans from the western plains and the arrival of the railroad.
300
In the West, the immigrants who bore the brunt of labor hostility in the 1870s and 1880s were from this country.
What is CHINA?
300

His alleged famous quote to his reporter was, "You furnish the pictures. I'll furnish the war."

William Randolph Hearst

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This Supreme Court decision upheld the principle of "separate but equal..."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
300
This philosophy allowed men of wealth, like Carnegie and Rockefeller,to justify the economic inequality that favored them over the nation's poor.
What is SOCIAL DARWINISM?
300
Jane Addams is most closely associated with this movement that provided education, child care, and job services to immigrants and women.
What is Settlement House Movement?
400
Europeans who came to the United States after 1880 have been described as "new" immigrants mainly because they:
What is came from different countries than those in earlier decades.
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McKinley officially urged the Senate to accept acquisition of these Pacific islands in order to keep them out of "enemy" hands.
What is the Philippines?
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He gave the "Cross of Gold" speech, and was the Democratic nominee for President in 1896, 1900, and 1908

Who is William Jennings Bryan?

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Carnegie's system of business organized that involved combining all phases of the steel industry, from mining to manufacturing, into a single corporation
What is vertical integration
400
The major point of difference between the two black leaders Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois was over their view of?:
What is the need for immediate equality for blacks.
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Name two countries from which many "new" immigrants arrived in America during the second half of the 19th century

Ireland, Italy, Poland, Russia, Czechoslovakia, Greece

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This colorful volunteer regiment won the Battle of San Juan Hill.

Who are the Rough Riders?

500

The purpose of the Pendleton Act.

What is ending the spoils system (corruption)?

500

The name given to the influential tycoons Leland Stanford, Collis Potter Huntington, Mark Hopkins Jr., and Charles Crocker who owned the Central Pacific Railroad, and dominated western politics and business.  

Who are "The Big Four"?

500
In his book (1890), Alfred T. Mahan argued the importance of THIS in world affairs.
What is that great empires are based on naval supremacy.