Cattle Kingdom
This 1862 law gave settlers 160 acres of land if they lived on it and farmed it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
This 1848-1849 event sparked a massive migration west as people searched for gold.
What is the California Gold Rush?
In the late 1800s, many factory workers worked this many hours per day.
What are 10–12 hours?
This inventor created the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
A workplace where people work long hours for low pay in poor conditions.
What is a sweatshop?
Farmers on the Great Plains who built homes out of sod bricks were known by this nickname.
What are sodbusters?
People who rushed to California in search of gold were often called this nickname.
What are the Forty-Niners?
This labor union led by Terence Powderly accepted women, African Americans, and unskilled workers
What is the Knights of Labor?
This inventor developed the first practical electric light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
The practice of hiring children to work instead of going to school.
What is child labor?
This famous cattle trail moved Texas Longhorns north to railroads and cow towns in Kansas.
What is the Chisholm Trail?
This 1859 discovery in Nevada became one of the richest silver deposits in the world.
What is the Comstock Lode?
This organization founded by Samuel Gompers focused mainly on skilled workers.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
Henry Ford used this manufacturing method to produce cars more quickly and cheaply
What is the assembly line?
The process where unions negotiate with employers for wages and working conditions.
What is collective bargaining?
This invention helped end the open range by allowing farmers and ranchers to fence their land.
What is barbed wire?
Mining towns that grew quickly and disappeared after resources ran out were called these.
What are boomtowns (or ghost towns)?
This 1886 labor protest in Chicago turned violent after a bomb exploded during a rally.
What is the Haymarket Affair?
This invention used electrical signals to send messages instantly across long distances. Later, Cyrus Field helped expand it with allowing communication between the United States and Europe faster than ever before.
What is the transatlantic telegraph cable?
The standard width of railroad tracks that allowed trains to travel across different rail lines.
What is standard gauge?
Ranchers drove Texas Longhorns along trails like the Chisholm Trail mainly to reach these towns, where cattle could be loaded onto railroads and shipped east.
What are cow towns?
Mining booms in the American West helped grow the economy but also caused serious problems. Identify three negative impacts of mining on the environment or society.
What are water pollution, deforestation, and the displacement of Native Americans?
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire killed 146 garment workers that were trapped in this building.
What is the Asch Building?
The Wright brothers successfully sustained heavier-than-air human flight on December 17th, 1903 in this state which proudly boasts the achievement on its state quarter.
What is North Carolina?
Colleges created by the Morrill Acts that focused on agriculture and engineering education.
What are land-grant colleges?