Going West
Inventors
Monopolists
Progressive Era
Democracy Expands
Democracy Expands
Progressive Muckrakers?
The Gilded Age
100
The Homestead Act gave this many acres for anyone willing to work the land for 5 years.
What is 160 acres?
100
Power plants, light bulb, phonograph (record player) and over 1000 patents altogether.
Who was Edison?
100
Steel
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
100
Suffragists like Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt finally got their right to vote thanks to this Amendment
What was the19th?
100
He wrote The Jungle, which showed the disgusting and disturbing things that were going into people's canned meat.
Who was Upton Sinclair?
100
These immigrants arrived after the Civil War from eastern and southern Europe.
Who were the New Immigrants?
200
These men were looking for freedom out west (and 25% of them were African Americans)
Who were cowboys?
200
The telephone
Who as Alexander Graham Bell?
200
Oil
Who was John D Rockefeller?
200
Democracy increased when Americans got to elect their two senators with this Amendment.
What was the 17th?
200
She brought down Standard Oil Trust?
Who was Ida Tarbell?
200
This is where most New Immigrants arriving on the East Coast were processed?
What was Ellis Island? 
300
These people came west looking for gold or silver.
Who were prospectors?
300
Affordable cars thanks to using the assembly line
Who was Henry Ford?
300
Railroads
Who was Cornelius Vanderbilt?
300
This allows citizens to nominate party candidates, not the political party bosses
What are primaries or direct primaries?
300
This president was known as the trust buster as he broke up over 40 monopolies or trusts.
Who was Teddy Roosevelt?
300
Many New Immigrants ended up living in these dilapidated and unsanitary apartments.
What were tenements?
400
Native Americans had their land taken away from and were forced to live on these?
What are reservations?
400
The airplane
Who were the Wright Brothers?
400
Finance or Banking?
Who was JP Morgan?
400
A sitting official can be removed with this type of election
What is a recall election?
400
Lincoln Steffens book, The Shame of the Cities, talked about the political corruption of these organizations.
What were political machines?
400
Almost 150 young girls died in this NYC fire, causing so much outrage that new safety laws were passed.
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
(it was a sweatshop where clothes were made)
500
Native Americans (and Immigrants) were assimilated (or Americanized) in these.
What are public schools?
500
African American who created the longer lasting light bulb
Who was Lewis Latimer?
500
Hair care products for African American women
Who was Madam CJ Walker?
500
Citizens vote yes or no to proposed local or state legislation on election day (casinos anyone?)
What is a referendum
500
The Temperance Movement saw their anti-alcohol belief become reality with this amendment.
What was the 18th?
500
Social Darwinism caused many to believe in this concept. (If you were poor it was your own fault, and no one should help you)
What was "Survival of the Fittest"?