The West
Native Americans
New South
2nd Industrial Revolution
Immigration
Gilded Age Politics
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Name that President:
-Democrat
-Texas becomes a state
-Oregon boundary settled
-Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
James Polk
100
The first transcontinental railroad was completed in this state?
Utah
100
What was the main food and life source for the Plain Indians that was hunted to near extinction by white settlers?
Bison/Buffalo
100
What took the place of slavery and the plantation system in the South following the Civil War?
Sharecropping/Tenant Farming
100
The term “Gilded Age” was coined by this famous American writer.
Mark Twain
100
This is the name of the small, dark, unsafe living space in which many immigrant industrial workers lived.
Tenement
100
The French term to describe the “hands-off” approach that the government took toward regulating business during the Gilded Age.
Laissez-Faire
200
Along with railroads and the discovery of precious metals, this law granting loyal citizens 160 acres of free land drew many Americans to the West.
Homestead Act
200
This law forced American Indians to stop living communally by dissolving tribal land and awarding 160 acres of land to heads of household under the stipulation that they improve the land and live like whites for 25 years.
Dawes Act
200
What Alabama city saw some industrialization in iron and steel production?
Birmingham
200
The Bessemer process was a cheaper and more efficient way to produce this essential material.
Steel
200
What idea of immigration dominated the 19th and 20th centuries and claimed that immigrants could quickly assimilate and succeed in America.
Melting Pot
200
What was the most famous New York City political machine of the era?
Tammany Hall
300
Demands made by a national organization of farmers that called for direct elections of senators, changes to federal taxes, and a new federal banking system
Ocala Platform
300
This was the Native American ritual which they hoped would help them to return to the way life was before contact with white Americans.
Ghost Dance
300
The 14th Amendment was interpreted to include “separate but equal” facilities in this Supreme Court decision.
Plessy v. Ferguson
300
This industrialist controlled 95% of the nation’s oil supply.
Rockefeller
300
What two regions of Europe were included in the “new” immigrants?
Southern and Eastern
300
In 1890, what law sought to regulate businesses to prevent trusts?
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
400
Organization that started as a social and educational institution for farmers, soon led the charge in activism against middlemen, trusts, and railroads.
National Grange Movement
400
This was the site of the massacre where an Army regiment killed 200-300 Lakota Sioux men, women and children.
Wounded Knee, SD
400
This image portrays the practice of what set of legislation?
Jim Crow Laws
400
What was the name of the first major labor organization which included both skilled and unskilled labor?
National Labor Union
400
This political cartoon was published in response to what piece of legislation.
Chinese Exclusion Act
400
In response to the assassination of James Garfield, this law was passed to remove classified gov't jobs from party control and set up a Civil Service Commission to select applicants for specific gov't employees.
Pendleton Act
500
This landmark case of 1877 upheld the right of a state to regulate businesses of a public nature.
Munn v. Illinois
500
This Sioux/Cheyenne victory intensified anti-Native sentiment and accelerated the grabbing of Native land.
Battle of Little Bighorn/Custer’s Last Stand
500
Fifty-Eight years of segregation will begin to end with this Supreme Court decision in 1954.
Brown v. Board of Education
500
Which industrialist penned the Gospel of Wealth suggesting the rich have a responsibility to engage in philanthropy?
Carnegie
500
This Nobel Peace Prize winner established the Hull House to support poor and immigrant communities in Chicago.
Jane Addams
500
What was the very successful third party whose platform included government ownership of the RR and free coinage of silver?
Populist Party