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Go Westward, young man
Law/S.C. decisions
Welcome to America or not
Women
100
founded US Steel Corporation
Who is Carnegie?
100
Author the SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FRONTIER
Who is Frederick Jackson Turner?
100
first law establishing quotas
What is the Immigration Act of 1921?
100
Between 1880-1920, the New Immigrants camae from this part of Europe
What is South and East?
100
associated with prison reform
Who is Dorothea Dix?
200
head of the Standard Oil Company
Who is John Rockefeller?
200
huge un-fenced territory in the West used by ranchers to graze cattle
What is the open range?
200
law regulating railroads
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
200
term: to become part of the predominant culture
What is assimilation?
200
"Remember the Ladies"
Who is Abigail Adams?
300
Head of the American Federation of Labor
Who is Samuel Gompers?
300
staple of the American Indian
What is the buffalo?
300
160 acres to settle the West 1862
What is the Homestead Act?
300
first law prohibited immigrants in 1882
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
300
Name one woman associated with the Seneca Falls Convention
Who are Stanton, Mott
400
leader of the Grange
Who is Oliver Kelley?
400
leader of the Americas at Little Bighorn-lost his life 1876
Who is Custer?
400
SC case favoring the Grange 1877
What is MUNN VS. ILLINOIS?
400
In 1965, encouraged immigration on a first come first serve basis
What is the Immigration Act of 1865?
400
Invention that stereotyped women professionally
What is the typewriter?
500
Second President assassinated AP
Who is James Garfield?
500
1887 law dividing tribal lands
What is the Dawes Act?
500
1924 law-gave Indians citizenship
What is the Snyder Citizenship Act?
500
1952 law maintaining the quota against immigrants but allowed 100 immigrants from each Asian country into the USA
What is the McCarran Walter Act?
500
Women could work but were supervised in a boarding house situation
What is the Waltham System/Lowell