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Geography
Settlement of the New World
Boom or Bust!
Our Two Non-Continental States
The Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
100
This ocean is located on the west coast of the United States.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
100
Homesteaders in the Great Plains built their homes out of this because there were few trees
What is sod.
100
A fast economic growth time.
What is a boom?
100
The United States purchased Alaska from this country.
What is Russia?
100
An entry place to the U.S. for most immigrants from Europe.
What is Ellis Island?
200
This lake lies in between Wisconsin and Michigan.
What is Lake Michigan.
200
This group of people signed treaties with the United States to give up their land.
What are the Plains Indians
200
A person who searches for gold, silver, or other valuable natural resources.
Who is a prospector?
200
Queen Lil made decisions that hurt American business owners.
What is why Americans wanted to take over the government in Hawaii?
200
A person who takes a chance by opening up a business.
Who is an entrepreneur?
300
This body of water runs all the way from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Mississippi River?
300
The loss of this animal greatly affected the Native Americans.
What are buffalo?
300
A time of fast economic decline.
What is a bust?
300
America took over Hawaii in this year.
What is 1893?
300
This man made the production of steel a major industry in the U.S.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
400
This river runs from Colorado to the Gulf of Mexico by running along the border of Texas and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
400
Most settlers in the West earned a living by working on these.
What are farms and ranches.
400
The discovery of these precious metals resulted in boom in Colorado and Nevada.
What are gold and silver?
400
This person helped persuade Congress to buy Alaska.
Who was Secretary of State Seward?
400
This person organized groups of skilled workers into the American Federation of Labor.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
500
This river is located in Washington and Canada.
What is the Columbia River?
500
The area of land set aside by the government for use only by the Native Americans.
What are reservations?
500
When a bust occurred, busy western towns became these.
What are ghost towns?
500
The purchase of Alaska was considered by some to be called silly. Because of that, it was referred to as this.
What is Seward's Folly?
500
Founded a settlement house that helped people living in Chicago.
Who is Jane Addams?