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This is the grassland region that extends through the west-central portion of the United States, in which Native American tribes such as the Sioux and Cheyenne lived
Great Plains Region
This legislation, passed in 1862, offered 160 acres to any American citizen who settled out west, resulting in the migration of 600,000 families and several thousand “exodusters” from 1862 to 1900
Homestead Act
What was the name of the political machine that Boss Tweed led?
Tammany Hall
He invented the typewriter in 1867
Christopher Sholes
By 1899, he had invented one of the most successful steel manufacturing businesses in the world
Andrew Carnegie
He believed that unions should include both skilled and unskilled laborers alike and headed the American Railway Union (ARU). He would go on to run for president 5 times, including once from jail
Eugene Debs
What did the Pendleton Service Act of 1883 do?
It established a merit based system for civil service jobs based on passing an exam
His Standard Oil Company would process 90 percent of the oil refining business by the 1880
Rockefeller
This prominent African American educator believed that racism would end once blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society by doing agricultural, domestic, or mechanical work.
Booker T. Washington
This man was the first African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard, and he believed that blacks should seek a liberal arts education so that the African-American community could have well-educated leaders.
W.E.B. Du Bois
Passed in 1887, this legislation was intended to “Americanize” the Native Americans. This act broke up the reservations and gave some of the land to individual Native Americans, while the rest of the land would be sold to White settlers
Dawes Act
Which business tactic would include buying a competing company that produces products similar to the ones your company makes?
Horizontal Integration
He was defeated at the Battle of Little Bighorn by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. His loss marked the largest victory for Native Americans against the US Army
George Custer
Jacob Riis was a muckraker who portrayed through his photography the unsanitary and overcrowded conditions in multifamily urban housing buildings known as what?
Tenements
This was a newly-developed technique to produce steel
Bessemer Process
In which system did leaders give important jobs to people who had helped them get elected?
Patronage System
He invented the telephone in 1876.
Alexander Graham Bell
This act, which was passed in 1882, banned entry to the United States to all Chinese except students, teachers, merchants, tourists, family members, and government officials. It was repealed in 1943
Chinese Exclusion Act
The “Social Gospel Movement” preached what?
Salvation through service to the poor
She was one of the most influential members of the Progressive Movement and, among other achievements, founded Chicago’s Hull House, which helped cultivate social responsibility toward the urban poor.
Jane Addams
This event, in which the Seventh Cavalry slaughtered 300 unarmed Native Americans, brought the Indian Wars to an end
Battle of Wounded Knee
From 1892 to 1924, roughly 17 million immigrants, many European, passed through this immigration station in New York Harbor
Ellis Island
The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 established that the federal government had the right to supervise railroad activities based on what idea?
States did not have the right to set the prices for business activities that started in one state and ended up in another state
He is said to have perfected the incandescent light bulb in 1876
Thomas Edison
This legislation was passed in 1890 and made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states or with other countries
Sherman Antitrust Act