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Gilded Age
100
He is known as America's most famous Inventor
Who is Thomas Alva Edison
100
The very first Labor Union in America
What is Knights of Labor
100
In the 1880s most immigrants were coming from there.
What is Eastern Europe
100
These people were given a plot of land to try to grow food on.
What are sharecroppers.
100
These were laws that separated blacks and whites.
What are the Jim Crow laws.
200
Formed US Steel Corporation
Who is Andrew Carnegie
200
How many hours a week did laborers work?
What is Sixty or more
200
Name one of the "pushes" that forced many young immigrants to leave their country.
What is religious persecution or military service
200
As Americans moved west, what happens to the local residents?
What is They are forced to reservations.
200
This court case upheld segregation as long as this phrase proved true.
What is separate but equal.
300
This man took control of the Oil Industry by buying up smaller businesses
Who is John D. Rockefeller
300
What happens if you got seriously injured on the job?
What is you lost your job
300
Where did the European Immigrants arrive?
What is Ellis Island
300
This program tried to assimilate the Native Americans to the White Man's ways.
What is the Dawes Act
400
One of the names who dominated the meat industry.
Who is Swift or Armour
400
What industry hired young boys?
What is the mining industry
400
What were newly immigrants home called?
What are tenements
400
The midwest farmers had to make their houses out of this material.
What is sod
400
After the assassination of President Garfield, by a disgruntled worker this act was passed.
What is the Pendleton Act.
500
Who was blamed for the the Haymaker Riots?
What are anarchists
500
As industry grew, more office workers were needed and this led to what new class of people?
What is the middle class
500
MidWest farmers used these to eventually stop the herds of cows who were being marched to slaughter in Wichita, Ks
What are fences
500
This metal was the favorite of the populist party.
What is Silver.