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100
Native Americans depended upon this animal for food and other resources.
What is buffalo (or bison)?
100
This is another name for the Populist Party.
What is The People's Party?
100
This law gave out free land--160 acres of it!
What is the Homestead Act?
100
He was the boss of the NY Democratic political machine.
who was Boss Tweed?
100
This "lady' welcomed immigrants to NY harbor.
What is the statue of Liberty?
200
Custer lost big in this battle; one of the only Indian victories.
What is The Battle of Little Bighorn?
200
Populists advocated the coinage of silver and gold, or "This".
What is bimetallism?
200
The Pacific Railway Act authorized the construction of this..
What is the transcontinental railroad?
200
Political machines targeted immigrants and offered them help in exchange for what
What are votes?
200
This island was the first place European immigrants landed, and where they were processed.
What is Ellis Island?
300
This battle was one of the worst massacres in history and marked the last major Indian uprising.
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?
300
Populists demanded government intervention in which abusive industry?
What is the railroad industry?
300
This law was the first that explicitly limited people by their ethnicity.
What is the Chinese Exclusion act?
300
This was a demand of the Populist party, and a way to protect the people's right to elect who they want.
What is the secret ballot?
300
This island is where Asian immigrants were processed (west coast).
What is Angel Island
400
This book by Helen Hunt Jackson details the abuse faced by the Cheyenne at the hands of the US Government.
What is "A Century of Dishonor"?
400
Later this became the seventeenth Amendment; originally it was a Populist demand that would make our country more democratic.
What is direct election of senators?
400
The goal of this law was to force the assimilation of the Native Americans.
What is the Dawes Act?
400
This is the name for the NYC political machine.
What is Tammany Hall?
400
Where were "new" immigrants from, in general?
South and EAstern Europe
500
After being told that there would be negotiations, a group of Native Americans were murdered here as they waited under the white flag.
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
500
Who gave the Cross of gold speech?
Who was William Jennings Bryan?
500
This law was passed to regulate the railroads.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
500
This Act was passed after Garfield's assassination to require civil service employees to pass exams to get hired.
What is the Pendleton Act?
500
what does gilded mean?
What is gold-plated?