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He made his fortune in the oil business during the Gilded Age

John D Rockefeller

100

This was a negative term used to describe big business owners during the Gilded Age

Robber Barons

100

The idea that the US should expand from Sea to Sea 

Manifest Destiny 

100

inventor of the telephone 

Alexander Graham Bell 

100

What groups of people were primarily impacted by the invention of barb wire? 

Farmers, Ranchers, Cowboys 

200

He made a fortune in the railroad business during the Gilded Age

Cornealius Vanderbilt

200

What does Gilded mean?

Shiny, expensive outer layer withg a cheap and rough material underneath

200

Where were Natives forced to live after the signing of the Indian Removal Act?

West of the Mississippi 

200

Who was seen as the most anti-Native American President in US History and why?

Andrew Jackson 
200

An action that the U.S. government took to help Americans fulfill the goal of western expansion?

The Homestead Act

300

He made a fortune as a banker and financier during the Gilded Age

JP Morgan

300

What is the Dawes Severalty Act 

Regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States. It authorized the President of the United States to subdivide Native American tribal communal landholdings into allotments for Native American heads of families and individuals.

300

What was one major cause of the huge increase in Westward expansion by the Europeans into Indian Territory?

Gold Rush

300

Inventor of the Lightbulb 

Thomas Edison 
300

What Battle was General Custard and the 7th Calvary defeated?  

Battle of Little Big Horn 

400

He made his fortune in the steel business during the Gilded Age

Andrew Carnegie 

400

when one business controls an entire industry

Monopoly 

400

What happened at Wounded Knee Creek?

A gun was fired by mistake during the native ritual dance, which caused the soldiers to open fire on the natives  

400

Explain Event: Homestead Strike 

violent labour dispute between the Carnegie Steel Company and many of its workers that occurred on July 6, 1892, in Homestead, Pennsylvania. The strike pitted the company’s management (which included owner American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and American industrialist Henry Clay Frick), the strikebreakers (replacement workers) who had been hired, and the Pinkerton National Detective Agency against members of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, who worked for the company. A gun battle resulted in which a number of Pinkerton agents and strikers were killed and many were injured.

400

What were the primary methods by which the American government dealt with American Indians during the period of western settlement?

Extermination, relocations, assimilation

500

Who is the most recognized Sioux for his involvement in the Wounded Knee massacre incident?

Sitting Bull 

500

buying up of competitors 

horizontal integration 

500

What constituted a significant change in the treatment of American Indians during the last half of the nineteenth century?

Divided tribes onto reservations 
500

What was the Haymarket Affair

he Haymarket Affair, also known as the Haymarket Riot, was a violent confrontation between police and labour protesters in Chicago on May 4, 1886, that became a symbol of the international struggle for workers’ rights.