He is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876).
Who is Mark Twain?
100
What is the Union Pacific Railroad?
100
He perfected the light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
Late in 1861, the federal government suspended specie payments, seeking to raise revenue for the American Civil War effort without exhausting its reserves of gold and silver
What is the Resumption Act?
100
genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres
What is modernism?
200
Was an intellectual leader of the black community in America. In multiple roles as civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, historian, author, and editor.
Who is W.E.B Du Bois?
200
The former name of the railroad network built between California and Utah
What is the Central Pacific Railroad?
200
Was an American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects.
Who is Winslow Homer?
200
A 1903 United States federal law that amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887.[
What is the Elkins Act?
200
Was a United States federal law which amended the Post Office Act and made it illegal to send any "obscene, materials through the mail.
What is the Comstock Act?
300
Who is most famous for adventure books?
Who is Horatio Alger?
300
Began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, United States and ended some 45 days later after it was put down by local and state militias, and federal troops.
What is the Great RailRoad Strike?
300
Being a laborer, factory worker, oyster pirate on the San Francisco Bay, member of the California Fish Patrol, sailor
Whos is Jack London?
300
An 1878 act of Congress requiring the U.S. Treasury to buy a certain amount of silver and put it into circulation as silver dollars.
What is the Bland-Allison Act?
300
Her short stories were well received in her own time and were published by some of America's most prestigious magazines, including Vogue and the Atlantic Monthly
Who is Kate Chopin?
400
Who wrote "The Jungle"?
Who is Upton Sinclair's?
400
1862 legislation that enabled the transcontinental railroad.
What is the RailRoad Land Grants?
400
Was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
400
which placed most federal government employees on the merit system and marked the end of the so-called spoils system. ...
What is the Pendleton Act?
400
who was trained as a medical doctor. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and on the philosophy of pragmatism.
Who is William James?
500
Was an American writer who became an activist to improve United States government treatmen
Who is Helen Hunt Jackson?
500
a nationwide conflict between labor unions and railroads that occurred in the United States in 1894. .
What is the Pullman Strike?
500
a Danish American social reformer, muckraking journalist and social documentary photographer.
Who is Jacob Riis?
500
requires the United States Department of Agriculture to inspect all cattle, sheep, goats, and horses when slaughtered and processed into products for human consumption