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100
This oil was very expensive and a lot of people needed it
What is whale oil?
100
A "Mad Man" who was willing to cross the Sierra Nevada Mountains
Who is Crazy Judah?
100
This animal was very valuable in the West
What is the beaver?
100
This turned the North into an economic powerhouse
What is the Erie Canal?
100
New York had a big problem with this in 1885
What is the Statue of Liberty?
200
This created a nation of criminals
What is prohibition?
200
Earned less and did more dangerous jobworking on the railroad in the west
What are Chinese workers?
200
The average number of calories a trapper in the West needed each day
What is 6,000?
200
The Northern and Southern economies were tied together by this crop
What is cotton?
200
This product was mass produced by Andrew Carnegie
What is steel?
300
This man was behind the St. Valentines Day Massacre
Who is Al Capone?
300
This is 13 times more physical than gunpowder
What is nitroglycerin?
300
This took the greatest toll off all on the tails West
What is human lives?
300
The price of slaves after the invention of cotton gin
What is 2,000 dollars?
300
This allowed people to go above 5 floors
What is the elavator?
400
1 out of 7 African Americans moved to the north to work at the Ford Plant, paid equally, but not treated equally
What is the Great Migration?
400
This act gave away 10% of US land
What is the Homestead Act?
400
This man led the Donner party
Who is George Donner?
400
This kept the American industrial machine going
What is technology?
400
This man wrote "How the Other Half Lives"
Who is Jacob Riis?
500
July 1919, Eugene Williams got a rock thrown at him by a white man causing many fights
What is the Chicago Race Riots?
500
This kept cowboys out and protected crops
What is Barb Wire?
500
This invention transformed the Mississippi River, the Midwest, & America
What is the steamboat?
500
This man had a 40,000 dollar bounty
Who is Harriet Tubman?
500
146 people died in a fire at this store
What is the Triangle Shirt Waist Factory?