Geography/Religion
Achievements
Politics
Economics
Society
100
The Homestead Act granted official title to160 acre plots of land after this many years of settlement.
What is five?
100
This inventor helped light up the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with alternating current (AC) electricity.
Who is Nicola Tesla?
100
Wealthy financier who consolidated large corporations like U.S. Steel.
Who is J.P. Morgan?
100
Most common labor pattern in postbellum cotton agriculture exploiting the formerly enslaved.
What is sharecropping?
100
White terrorist group that formed following the Civil War to impede Black male suffrage.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
200
The Central Pacific built eastward from California, while the Union Pacific built westward from Nebraska. They connected at this spot in Utah.
What is Promontory Point?
200
Type of temporary houses built on the plains by homesteaders due to a lack of timber.
What are sod houses?
200
Number for the constitutional amendment that guarantees the right to vote to all male citizens, regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
200
Wealthy man from the Gilded Age who believed that it was a disgrace to die as a wealthy man so he donated the majority of his fortune to churches, libraries, and other organizations.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
200
This journalist vigorously fought to bring attention to the extra-legal practice of lynching, mostly practiced by white-supremacists.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
300
This state was the location of the Battle of Wounded Knee, that saw nearly three hundred Lakota people killed by soldiers of the United States Army.
What is South Dakota?
300
The first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard University.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
300
President William McKinley stated that this island nation came into America's possession as "a gift from the gods."
What are the Philippine Islands?
300
To use used ruthless business practices such as undercutting prices and eliminating competition creates a __________.
What is a monopoly?
300
Another name for the People's Party, organized by small farmers in the South, Midwest, and Great Plains.
What are the Populists?
400
Tens of thousands of Jews came to America after they were severely persecuted in what country?
What is Russia?
400
This woman made a name for herself as legendary American sharpshooter and star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.
Who is Annie Oakley?
400
Number for the constitutional amendment that guarantees equal protection under the law and citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment?
400
A wave of mergers peaked between 1897 and 1904. The largest of these mergers created the first billion dollar American corporation. What was that corporation?
What is Standard Oil?
400
The Populists proposed promoting an inflationary monetary policy by monetizing this precious metal.
What is silver?
500
This American evangelist and professional baseball outfielder became the nation's most famous evangelist because of his energetic sermons.
Who is Billy Sunday?
500
The Home Insurance Building in Chicago was completed in 1885, was the first tall building to use a fireproof structural steel frame and paved the way for these city structures.
What are skyscrapers?
500
Name for laws passed in the Southern United States after the Civil War that restricted the rights of Black people.
What are Black Codes?
500
This farmers' association was organized in the late 19th century to fight against monopolistic grain transport practices.
Who are the Grangers?
500
Williams Jennings Bryan quote: "You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of _____."
What is gold?