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100
Inventor of the light bulb
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
Broke up tribal lands
What is the Dawes Act?
100
Covered thousands of acres and was more common in California than on the prairie
What is a bonanza farm?
100
Most laborers who immigrated to the US during this era were from these regions in Europe (3):
What are Russia, Eastern Europe, and a newly unified Italy?
100
The Wicked Witch of the West
What is the railroad?
200
Steel industrial giant
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
200
Merit system for federal employees
What is the Civil Service Act?
200
They divided the U.S. into 4 time zones
What are the major railroad companies?
200
This labor union was international and attracted violent radicals
What is the IWW (International Workers of the World)
200
Oz (2)
What is a measurement for gold and Washington DC?
300
Oil industrial giant
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
300
Established to ensure that railroads charged farmers reasonable and fair rates
What is the Interstate Commerce Commission?
300
Became an example, after the Civil War, of the open range
What are cowboys?
300
The original US labor day of celebration
What is May 1st?
300
The opium epidemic in the US is portrayed in which scene from the Wizard of Oz?
What is the poppy field scene?
400
Social Darwinist
Who is Charles Sumner?
400
Banned practices that restricted trade
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
400
Lead to the enclosure movement
What is barbed-wire?
400
President Hayes sent in the US army to put this strike down in 1877
What is the Great Railroad Strike?
400
Why was the Chinese Exclusion Act passed in 1882? (2)
What is the fear of job loss by other immigrants and a sense of ethnic superiority because of cultural differences?
500
Created the photo expose "How the Other Half Lives"
Who is Jacob Riis?
500
Outlawed by the US government and lead to a religious revitalization campaign among Indians
What is the Ghost Dance?
500
The economic developement of the American west was based on (3):
What are lumber, farming, and mining?
500
Iron workers lead a strike against the conditions in Andrew Carnegie's iron works at this location outside Pittsburg
What is Homestead?
500
Why did the Secretary of War order Custer to clear the Indians from the Black Hills?
What is the discovery of gold?