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This famous Act of 1862 gave states large amounts of money for education, which in turn led to starting dozens of schools called land-grant colleges.
What is the Morrill Act?
This was a nickname given to a dugout in the side of the hills on the Great Plains.
What is a "soddie" ?
He was remembered as the first inventor of the horseless carriage.
Who is Henry Ford?
A personal pronoun that stands for the state of Maine.
What is ME ?
This was a less expensive way to produce mass quantities of goods.
What is the assembly line?
This famous Act of 1887 proposed to break up the Indian reservations and end identification with a tribal group.
What is the Dawes Act?
In 1890, John O. Sullivan put this idea of a national mission in his N.Y. newspaper that America should "possess the whole of the Continent, which Providence has given us."
What is a Manifest Destiny ?
This young tycoon made his fortune in the oil business.
Who is John D. Rockefeller ?
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This magnificient sight serves as a greeting to all immigrants who sail into its harbor.
The initials for its state home are "nigh" you.
What is the Statue of Liberty ?
What is NY ?
Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and other inductrial millionaires grew interested in this use of their money to benefit communities.
What is philanthropy?
This famous Act of 1862 granted 160 acre plots of land free to those who simply paid a filing fee and agreed to continuous settlement on the land for 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
Thousands of these African Americans migrated from the Southern states into KS in the late 1870s.
What is an Exoduster?
In an effort to provide higher education for African Americans and Native Americans, he founded the Tuskegee Institute in 1881.
Who is Booker T. Washington ?
This state is home to the Boston Red Sox.
What is MA ?
This was a means of attracting readers by exaggerating the dramatic or gruesome aspects of stories - especially during times of war or crisis.
What is yellow journalism?
This famous Act of 1890 sought to control the power of big businesses involved in trusts and monopolies.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This was the nickname Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner gave to a period of time where a terrible layer of poverty existed under a deceiving layer of extravagant wealth.
What is "The Gilded Age" ?
This religious group was established in 1879 to aid the poor through soup kitchens and shelters.
What is the Salvation Army ?
This capital was named for the famous frontiersman and scout Christopher "Kit" Carson and found in this mid-western state.
What is NV ?
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This era of American literature focused on the real lives of people.
This famous realist writer wrote about his boyhood world growing up on the Mississippi River.
What is realism?
Who is Samuel Langhorne Clemens? OR
Who is Mark Twain? [Mark = measure Twain = two ; This was a riverboat term.]
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There have been thousands of amendments proposed to the Constitution of the United States, however, only 27 have actually been ratified as Amendments. What are the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution called?
What is their purpose?
What is the Bill of Rights?
And what is "The purpose of defending our civil liberties"?
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This occurrence was known as one of the greatest dangers on the cattle trail.
This Indians used this dried manure from the buffalo for fuel...better known as...
What is a stampede?
What are buffalo chips?
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This 36-year-old was known as the Great Commoner because of his appeal to the average American. He was chosen as the Democrat candidate for President in 1896.
This candidate won the Presidential Election of 1896.
Who is William Jennings Bryan ?
Who is William McKinley ?
The famous North Carolina State University is located in this city.
What is Raleigh, NC ?
In 1883, the Railroad divided our country into four of these.
What are Time Zones?