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Immigrants from what area worked to build the transcontinental railroad?
Chinese
100
Which numbered area on the map saw the biggest economic increase due to industrialization?
#3
100
The primary role of the cowboy
herding cattle to market
100
What offered free land in the West to anyone who was willing to farm?
Homestead Act
100
What year did the Wright brothers successfully test/fly the airplane?
1903
200
Which island welcomed immigrants to America?
Ellis Island
200
This invention changed working hours in factories
the lightbulb
200
native american culture was already affected by westerners before 1877 due to the introduction of the gun and what animal?
the horse
200
The invention of the ___________ by McCormick helped farmers new to the west.
mechanical reaper
200
How many times did Ross Geller get divorced on the show Friends?
three times
300
what institution was the primary way that immigrant children learned to assimilate?
public schools
300
Andrew Carnegie's wealth came from developing monopolies in which industry?
steel
300
buffalo were killed at high rates due to the wealth found in creating what manufactured good from their bones?
fine (bone) china
300
The one exemption to the Homestead Act - this one group of people were not allowed to partake of the act
southerners who had given aid to the Confederacy
300
The hardest substance in the human body
tooth enamel
400
Immigrants typically lived in cramped housing or apartments called __________.
tenements
400
Economic term meaning "hands off" (referring to the government and business)
Laissez-faire capitalism
400
Name ONE of the massacres regarding native americans during the gilded age
Sand Creek Massacre OR Custer Massacre
400
This robber baron of the Gilded Age created his vast fortune and empire around the railroad business, connecting the west to the east
Vanderbilt
400
Which of Angela's cats did Dwight Schrute (accidentally) kill on The Office?
Sprinkles
500
Name ONE of the immigrant reform acts that cut off immigration to the US for several decades
Chinese Exclusion Act OR Immigration Restriction Act of 1921
500
This labor riot that occurred in Chicago - a dynamite bomb went off, killing 11 people
Haymarket Riot
500
186 children died at this boarding school, the purpose of which was to assimilate native children to US culture
Carlisle School
500
This invention by a farmer helped officially settle the land in the American West by keeping cattle out of food plots
barbed wire
500
What does the Scoville Unit Scale measure?
the spicy heat of chili peppers