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Who invented an improved light-bulb, the phonograph and video camera?
Thomas Edison
100
Who took over when Lincoln died?
Andrew Johnson
100
What was a term for Southern laws that helped to prevent the realization of equal rights for African-Americans?
Black Codes or Jim Crow Laws.
100
What was one push factor leading people to move west?
Overcrowding in the East.
100
What was the 'Spoils System'?
An understanding that politicians, when they won, would give jobs to friends and donors.
200
Who invented the telephone and the metal detector?
Alexander Graham Bell
200
What former Civil War general led a very corrupt administration?
Ulysses S. Grant
200
What is one specific way that Southern states worked to prevent African-Americans from voting?
Possible answers include poll taxes, literacy tests and The Grandfather Clause.
200
What was one pull factor leading people to move West?
Possible answers include The Homestead Act, California Gold Rush and Trans-Continental Railroad.
200
Under Chester A. Arthur's presidency, immigration from what country was halted?
China.
300

Who invented the radio and the system we use to conduct electricity to and within buildings?

Nikola Tesla

300
What did Rutherford B. Hayes do to end Reconstruction?
He removed Northern troops from the South.
300
Who founded the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)?
W.E.B. DuBois
300
What did The Interstate Commerce Act do?
It regulated the railroads, helping to make prices more predictable and fair.
300
What Act, passed under president Chester A. Arthur, helped to weaken the Spoils System?
The Pendleton Act.
400
Who invented the typewriter?
Christopher Sholes
400
What president was assassinated because he didn't give a job to someone who expected one?
James Garfield
400
What did Booker T. Washington feel to be the key to achieving equal rights for African Americans?
Stronger economic positions (including jobs and homes), education
400
What did The Homestead Act do?
It gave land in the West to people willing to work the land for five years.
400
What was 'The Grange'?
A union of farmers.
500
What did Alfred Nobel, creator of the Nobel Prize, invent?
Dynamite
500
What president was elected twice, to non-consecutive terms?
Grover Cleveland
500
What did Ida B. Wells work to do?
Stop lynchings.
500
Where did the football team The San Francisco 49ers get their name and team colors?
They're named after pioneers in the Gold Rush, who were nicknamed '49ers'. Their team color, of course, is gold.
500
What terrorist organization worked in The South to help whites remain more powerful than others politically, socially and economically?
The KKK.