These were tiny towns that were transformed into small cities.
What are Boomtowns?
100
This is a belief in individual initiative—entrepreneurship—and minimal government regulation. Economic success is based on private enterprise, not government regulatio
What is Laissez-faire?
100
This role in the government was typically filled by the mayor who controlled jobs, business licenses, and influenced the court system. However there was a different term that these leaders went by during the gilded age.
What is a Boss?
100
In 1867, Secretary of State William Steward arranged for the United States to buy this state from the Russians for $7.2 million
What is Alaska?
100
This man organized the American Socialist Party in 1901
Who is Eugene Debs?
200
Tens of thousands of cattle came from Texas through Oklahoma to Abilene via this famous trail.
What is Chisholm trail?
200
In 1859, this man used a steam engine to drill for oil.
Who is Edwin Drake?
200
This man, known as Boss Tweed, became head of Tammany Hall, NYC’s powerful Democratic political machines.
Who is William M. Tweed?
200
Led by Sanford Dole, American annexed this state in 1898 and it formally became a state in 1959.
What is Hawaii?
200
Journalists were often called this when they exposed corruption in business.
What is a Muckraker?
300
These hispanic cattle herders affected the cattle boom of the 1870s and 1880s by developing tools and techniques for managing cattle.
Who are Vaqueros?
300
1876- This man established the world’s first research lab in New Jersey.
Who is Thomas Edison?
300
On July 2, 1881, this president was shot by Charles J. Guiteau, while waiting for a train.
Who is President Garfield?
300
Under the progressive Republican leadership of Robert La Follette, this state led the way in regulating big business.
What is Wisconsin?
400
African Americans who moved from the post-Reconstruction South to Kansas were called this.
What are Exodusters?
400
In 1869, Professor C.F. Dowd proposed dividing the earth into 24 of these.
What are Time Zones?
400
This Act made in 1883 authorized a bipartisan commission to make appointments for federal jobs based on performance
What is The Pendleton Civil Service Act ?
400
The U.S. and this country signed an armistice on August 12, 1898, ending what Secretary of State John
Hay called “a splendid little war”
What is Spain?
400
In 1896, black women formed this association.
What is The National Association of Colored Women?
500
Steel plows, perfected by this man, could break through the hard sod cover of the Great Plains to turn up the fertile soil beneath.
Who is John Deere
500
By 1899, this steel company manufactured more steel than all the factories in Great Britain combined.
What is the Carnegie Steel Company?
500
This was the movement of the people – was born in 1892 with the founding of the People’s Party.
What is Populism?
500
Key features of this amendment included the right of the U.S. to maintain naval stations on the island and the right to intervene in Cuban affairs.
What is the Platt Amendment?
500
When this man was thrust into the presidency in 1901, he became the youngest president ever at age 42.