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100

Woman known for settlement houses...

Jane Addams

100

This officially allowed for a particular valuable to back the US money supply in 1900....

Gold Standard Act

100

This is where Custer and his men were "Massacred" which led to an increase in anti-Native feelings...

Battle of Little Big Horn

100

These two men were known for yellow Journalism

Hearst and Pulitzer

100

Man who was responsible for the purchase of Alaska...

William Seward

200

Woman known for her "winning plan" for women to be granted the right to vote....

Carrie Chapman Catt

200

160 acres to anyone who wanted it out west.  Was a major pull factor for immigrants coming to America...

Homestead Act

200

This is where Coxey's army marched on Washington...

Pullman Strike

200

This was written by Helen Hunt Jackson about the ill treatment of Native Americans..

"A Century of Dishonor"

200

First MAJOR battle of the Civil War...

Bull Run

300

This man was assassinated in Buffalo New York on September 6th, 1901

William McKinley 

300

The goal of this act was to assimilate Native Americans into white society...

Dawes Act (Dawes Severalty Act)

300

US Army 7th Cavalry Regiment massacred hundreds of Sioux men, women, and children, which marked the definitive end of Indian resistance to the encroachments of white settlers.

Battle of Wounded Knee

300

What was the name of George Custer's unit in the military?

7th Cavalry 

300

What man's impeachment led to establishing further requirements for impeachment?

Samuel Chase

400

Populist party candidate for president in 1896...

William Jennings Bryan

400

This allowed for public land to be used for higher education....

Morrill Act

400

Booker T. Washington founded this vocational school for African Americans...

Tuskegee Institute

400

An idea developed by William James and John Dewey that argued that the "good" and "true" could not be known in the abstract as fixed and changeless ideals. They said that people should take a practical approach to morals, ideals, and knowledge.

Pragmatism 

400

In 1850, Daniel Webster, a senator from Massachusetts, delivered his “_____________” speech in favor of the compromise.

Seventh of March

500

This man published "The significance of the Frontier in American History"

Frederick Jackson Turner

500

These laws made any decimation of obscene materials through the mail illegal.... 

Comstock laws

500

W.E.B DuBois was one of the founders of this organization for African American rights...

NAACP

500

Native American Chief who defeated Custer at Little Big Horn...

Sitting Bull

500

This "amendment" stated that no further slaves could be imported into the state and all children born after Missouri's admission to the Union shall be born free.

Tallmadge Amendment