What animal was the major source of food and other provisions for Native Americans?
Buffalo
100
What is the term that described in America in the following way: Beneath a layer of prosperity were poverty and corruption?
Gilded Age
100
What group of Americans became a major consuming power in the late 1800s due to new advances like rural free delivery and mail order catalogs?
Women
100
What major event began in 1898?
Spanish-American War
200
What was the name of the act that allowed Americans to move west and settle on 160 acres of land for a small fee?
Homestead Act of 1862
200
Many people living in urban areas in the United States were forced to live in shoddy, dirty and unsafe apartment-like buildings called what?
Tenements
200
What is the name of the group that was founded to abolish segregation and discrimination, oppose racism and gain civil rights for African-Americans?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
200
What was the term for journalism that is based on sensationalism and exaggeration?
Yellow Journalism
300
What land, originally set aside for Native Americans, became a state in 1907?
Oklahoma
300
What feeling, which means favoring native-born Americans over immigrants, helped lead to policies that were unfriendly to immigrants?
Nativism
300
Who was the African-American leader who believed that African-Americans should get a well-rounded education and become leaders in society?
W.E.B. DuBois
300
What foreign policy did the United States hope to put in place that would provide for equal access to China's millions of consumers?
Open Door Policy
400
What is the name given to African-Americans who migrated west following the Civil War?
Exodusters
400
Who was the journalist took photographs that exposed the living conditions for tenement residents in his book How the Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis
400
What controversial U.S. Supreme Court case established the doctrine that whites and African-Americans could be segregated if their facilities were "separate-but-equal"?
Plessy vs. Ferguson
400
What U.S. president's policy was to "walk softly and carry a big stick"?
Theodore Roosevelt
500
What invention helped farmers take over the plains and served as the beginning of the end of the cowboy way of life?
Barbed Wire
500
Who was the most infamous "Boss" who controlled the political machine known as Tammany Hall?
William "Boss" Tweed
500
Who founded Hull House, one of the most popular settlement houses in U.S. history?
Jane Addams
500
What major engineering project did the United States undertake in order to create a shortcut in travel from the Atlantic World to the Pacific World?