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What became a popular catchphrase with the Colonists as they became frustrated with Britain passing new Acts?
No Taxation without Representation
What were Farmers who attempted to farm in the Plains by plowing the land called?
Sodbuster
The farming area that stretched throughout the Great Plains and encompassed much of the Dakotas and Kansas was known as what?
The Wheat Belt
What inventor created the phonograph, the light bulb, and motion pictures?
Thomas Edison
What is it called when a single company maintains control of an entire market?
Monopoly
What document did the Colonists issue that argued that only representatives elected by the colonists, not Parliament, had the right to tax them?
Declaration of Rights and Grievances
Following the American Revolution the United States was first central government was regulated by what?
The Articles of Confederation
What is the idea that God had bestowed the entire continent to the Americans?
Manifest Destiny
Where did General Lee surrender to General Grant, officially ending the Civil War?
Appomattox Courthouse
Which abolitionist seized an arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in an attempt to begin an insurrection against slaveholders?
John Brown
What gave the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific permission to build a transcontinental railroad?
Pacific Railway Act
Who was the most successful investment banker?
J.P. Morgan
Most immigrants coming to America from Europe between 1892 and 1954 passed through where in the New York Harbor?
Ellis Island
What movement worked to better conditions in cities according to the biblical ideals of charity and justice?
Social Gospel
What act prohibited large business from combining into trusts that restrained trade among the States?
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
On December 10, 1898, the U.S. and Spain signed what, that ending the Spanish American War?
Treaty of Paris
The two major compromises that led to the formation of Constitution were?
Connecticut / Great Compromise
3/5 Compromise
The 3 branches of the federal government are what?
Executive
Legislative
Judicial
The years immediately following the Civil War was an era know as what?
Reconstruction
On April 22, 1889, the government opened one of the last large territories for settlement. Within hours, thousands of people raced to stake claims in an event known as the what?
Oklahoma Land Rush
What were the 5 major reform movements during the mid-1800s?
Temperance
Better facilities for prisoners and insane
Public School system
more education opportunities for women
Abolition
What were 4 environmental challenges the settlers of the Great Plains had to face?
Temperatures above 100 degrees in the summer
Prairie Fires
Swarms of grasshoppers
Extreme Cold/Blizzards
The 3 main chiefs of the Lakota were:
Red Cloud
Sitting Bull
Crazy Horse
The 4 factors that created a favorable environment in the U.S. for the Second Industrial Revolution to take place were what?
Abundance of Natural Resources and Raw Materials
Population Growth
New Inventions and Technologies
Laissez-faire economics
Southern States tried to keep African Americans from being able to vote by following what two restrictions?
Poll Taxes
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