Vocabulary
Pandemic
what is a worldwide epidemic?
Theodore Roosevelt
who was a progressive republican and active president?
Avery Island, Weeks Island, Cote Blanche, Belle Isle, and Jefferson Island
what are the 5 salt domes?
Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
what act was to promote economic fairness and competitiveness and to regulate interstate commerce?
Sand Creek Battle
what battle was part of a series of conflicts between Plains Indian tribes with newly arrived settlers from the East and federal troops?
Streetcars
what is a type of passenger vehicle that ran on rails and were pulled by mules?
Booker T. Washington
who was the founder of the Tuskegee institute?
The Mississippi Floodplain, the Red River Valley, the Terraces, the Marshes, The Hills
What are the 5 natural regions of Louisiana?
Homestead Act
what is to acquire land?
Battle of Little Bighorn
what battle encroachments by White settlers into the Black Hills as well as efforts by the United States government to force the Sioux to live on reservations and abandon their traditional ways of life?
Jazz
what is a form of music played mostly in disreputable New Orleans bars and honky-tonks?
Ida B. Wells
who was the co-founder of the NAACP?
oak trees, cypress trees, pine trees
what are examples of trees in Louisiana?
Chinese Exclusion Act
what prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers for ten years?
The Wounded Knee Battle
what battle was a reaction to a religious movement that gave fleeting hope to Plains Indians whose lives had been upended by white settlement?
Scrip
what is a type of currency used by lumber companies?
who invented the model T?
Telephone, typewriter, cash register, light bulb, adding machine
what are five examples of inventions made during the Industrial Revolution?
Dawes Act
what authorized the breakup of reservation land held in common by the tribe and divided it among individual members?
Battle of Manila Bay
what battle had the Tensions between Spain and the United States worsened over the Spanish conduct during their efforts to quell the Cuban War of Independence?
Muckrakers
Who are newspaper reporters on authors who write exaggerated stories?
John D. Rockefeller
who is the owner of the standard oil company?
Atlantic Time Zone, Eastern Time Zone, Central Time Zone, Mountain Time Zone, Pacific Time Zone, Alaska Time Zone
what are examples of time zones?
Pure Food and Drug Act
what act for progressives action was necessary to preserve free enterprise and to protect the American people?
Federman fight
what battle did the Fetterman's disobedience and arrogance?