This innovation created a faster & more practical way to transport goods, created a national market, lowered costs of production and intersected in Promontory Point, Utah.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
100
This was the route taken by many cowboys and their herds that ran from Texas to the northern cow towns.
What is the Chisholm Trail?
100
This system allowed civil service jobs to be given to people who weren't even qualified for the position!
What is the spoils system?
100
I want equality now, and blacks shouldn't settle for vocational education, but aim for a more liberal arts based one instead...who am I?
Who was W. E. B. DuBois?
100
Ship sank in Havana, Cuba and one of the immediate causes for us to enter the Spanish American War.
What is the U.S.S. Maine?
200
This piece of legislation was designed to break up (dissolve) monopolies & trusts.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
200
Another name for Patrons of Husbandry - organization that helped farmers from cooperatives.
What is Grange or Grangers?
200
Over 250,000 of these immigrants were recruited by railroad companies in the mid-1800s.
Who were Chinese immigrants?
200
Supreme Court case forever linked to the allowance of "separate but equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
200
This was designed to ensure that we had access to the millions of Chinese consumers.
What is the Open Door Policy?
300
Two nicknames that industrialists like John D. Rockefeller & Andrew Carnegie had since they were both philanthropists but also men who gained their wealth using questionable methods.
What are Captains of Industry & Robber Barons?
300
This technological innovation helped put an end the the long drive.
What is barbed wire?
300
This piece of legislation was designed to end the spoils system by forcing applicants to pass a series of tests and qualification requirements.
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
300
These were innovations that contributed to the changing role of women by allowing them to focus less on their "domestic duties".
What were canned goods, washing machines, other electric appliances?
300
Another form of persuasion for the U.S. to enter the Spanish American war due to it's sensationalizing news from Cuba.
What is Yellow Journalism?
400
Labor organization characterized by the following: female & blacks members allowed to join, supported 8-hour work days, and worked to aboloish child labor.
Who was the Knights of Labor?
400
This regulated the prices that railroads charged to move freight between states.
What is Interstate Commerce Act?
400
Boss Tweed headed one of these types of systems in Tammany Hall, N.Y. where they ensure that a particular party or group maintains power.
What is a political machine?
400
These allowed for the segregation of races.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
400
Big Stick Diplomacy may be needed in order to maintain order and stability in Latin America...this is what we would use to enforce these measures.
What is our Navy (military) ?
500
Method used by Carnegie Steel where they would purchase and control all phases of a products production.
What is vertical consolidation?
500
In hopes of settling the West, the U.S. passed the Homestead Act (160 acres of land for a small fee under certain conditions) and what other Act that gave states millions of acres of land for them to form "land grant" colleges on.
What is Morrill Land - Grant Act?
500
Thomas Nast was a reformer who often used political cartoons to fight corruption, but others like this man wrote books like "How the Other Half Lives" in which he reported on how terrible tenement life for immigrants.
Who was Jacob Riis?
500
This is a type of segregation in which it's practiced by custom and not through actual laws.
What is de facto segregation?
500
To ensure the world we were not trying to imperialize areas of the Western Hemisphere, the Roosevelt Corollary served as an extension to this declaration by President Monroe signed back in 1823.