Civil War & Reconstruction
Westward Expansion & Native Americans
Populism & Progressives
Immigration
Industrial Revolution
200

This U.S. president issued the Emancipation Proclamation.


Who is Abraham Lincoln?


200

This 1862 act gave settlers free land if they farmed it.


What is the Homestead Act?


200

This 1890s party represented farmers and workers.


What is the Populist Party?

200

This New York Harbor station processed millions of European immigrants.


What is Ellis Island?

200

He invented the electric light bulb.


Who is Thomas Edison?

400

The Civil War began with Confederate fire on this fort.


What is Fort Sumter?


400

This 1876 battle saw Custer defeated by Lakota and Cheyenne forces.


What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?


400

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle led to reforms in this industry.


What is the meatpacking industry?

400

This 1882 law banned immigration from a specific Asian country.


What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?

400

Henry Ford pioneered this method of mass production.


What is the assembly line?

600

This amendment abolished slavery.


What is the 13th Amendment?


600

This 1887 act broke up tribal lands to force assimilation.


What is the Dawes Act?


600

This 1896 “Cross of Gold” orator championed silver coinage.


Who is William Jennings Bryan?

600

Immigrants to the West Coast were processed at this site.


What is Angel Island?

600

Andrew Carnegie’s fortune came from this industry.


What is steel?

800

These Republicans wanted harsh punishment for the South and rights for freedmen.


Who were the Radical Republicans?


800

This railroad completed in 1869 linked the nation coast to coast.

What is the Transcontinental Railroad?

800

This woman founded Hull House in Chicago.


Who is Jane Addams?

800

This journalist exposed immigrant tenement life in How the Other Half Lives.


Who is Jacob Riis?

800

This 1890 law aimed to break up monopolies.


What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?

1000

This 1877 compromise ended Reconstruction.


What is the Compromise of 1877?


1000

This 1890 massacre marked the symbolic end of the frontier.


What is Wounded Knee?

1000

Theodore Roosevelt’s reform plan was called this.


What is the Square Deal?

1000

Nativists supported these limits on newcomers from certain nations.


What are immigration quotas?

1000

This violent 1892 steel strike was crushed by private guards.


What is the Homestead Strike?