Congress established this agency of the Army to distribute food to millions of former slaves.
What is the Freedman's Bureau
100
This act banned Chinese immigration into the United States for 10 years and barred those already in the country from becoming naturalized citizens.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
100
He laid the first transatlantic telegraph cable to Europe in 1866.
Who is Cyrus W. Field
100
Large New York open space designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux.
What is Central Park
100
This required some federal jobs be filled by virtue of an examination rather than patronage.
What is the Pendleton Act
200
Throughout the South in 1865 and early 1866 state legislatures were enacting these sets of laws which authorized local officials to apprehend unemployed blacks and hire them out to private employers to satisfy the fines.
What are Black Codes
200
It permitted settlers to buy plots of 160 acres for a small fee if they occupied the land they purchased for five years and improved it.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862
200
The process of blowing air through molten iron to burn out impurities and create a much stronger metal.
What is the Bessemer Process
200
Architect of the "Great White City" also known as Chicago.
Who is Daniel Burnham
200
Effective railroad legislation passed in 1887 created a five member panel to enforce consistent long haul and short haul rates. The agency was given this title.
What is the Interstate Commerce Commission
300
This amendment to the constitution offered the first constitutional definition of American citizenship.
What is the 14th
300
"Nesters" from the East threw up fences around their land claims blocking trails and breaking up the pasture land. This was the resulting conflict.
What were "range wars."
300
Another name for the basic principles of "scientific management"
What is "Taylorism"
300
In 1884 construction began on the first modern skyscraper in this city.
What is Chicago
300
This Ohio business man and Populist began, in 1894, advocating an inflation of the currency and a massive public works program designed to create job for the unemployed.
Who is Jacob Coxey
400
This forbade the president from removing civil officials, including members of his own cabinet, without consent of the Senate.
What is the Tenure of Office Act
400
This historian stated, "the frontier has gone and with its going has closed the first period of American history.
Who is Frederick Jackson Turner
400
Andrew Carnegie, a Scottish immigrant built the foundation of this truly American mega industry.
What was U.S. Steel
400
"Sister Carrie" was a novel written by this man exposing the troubling aspect of urban life: the plight of single women.
Who was Theodore Dreiser
400
During most of its existence as a nation, the United States recognized both gold and silver as a basis for the dollar. This formula was know as this.
What is "bimetallism"
500
The two derogatory terms used to label southern white Republicans.
What are scalawags and carpetbaggers
500
The idea of establishing one great enclave in which many tribes could live gave way to these new reservation policies.
What is the "Concentration Policy"
500
This militant labor organization sometimes used violence and even murder in its battle with coal operators.
Who were "Molly Maguires"
500
Boss Tweed was the famous city leader of this New York City political organization.
What is Tammany Hall
500
Many Americans concluded that a conspiracy of big bankers had been responsible for the "demonetization" of silver, and they referred to the law as this