New opportunities and technological advances led to this
What is westward migration?
100
These instruments were not worth the paper they were written on.
What are Indian treaties?
100
12 million of these “huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” arrived between 1870 and 1900.
Who are immigrants?
100
These acts institutionalized a system of legal segregation in the South.
What are the “Jim Crow” laws?
100
An American railroad and shipping tycoon who amassed 19th-century America's largest fortune.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
200
It linked the Central Pacific and Union Pacific.
What is Transcontinental Railroad?
200
Custer’s last stand was made here.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
200
Sought refuge from religious oppression by their home governments in Eastern Europe.
Who are Russian and Ukrainian Jews?
200
State laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities.
What is “separate but equal?”
200
His standard was to monopolize the oil industry.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
300
For most, their search was in vein.
What are the gold and silver rushes?
300
The process whereby a minority group is forced to adapt to the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture.
What is assimilation?
300
Rising from poverty to wealth almost overnight.
What is “rags to riches?”
300
This landmark US Supreme Court decision upheld the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
300
This Scottish American industrialist knew how to steel his way to the top.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
400
Former enslaved African Americans went westward for this.
What is a new beginning?
400
A tragic and avoidable massacre on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota in 1890.
What was the Battle of Wounded Knee?
400
President Chester A. Arthur signed into law the most significant restriction on free immigration in US history, on May 6, 1882.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882?
400
This African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to US Presidents accepted social segregation, believing equality could be achieved through vocational education.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
400
This 19th-century American industrialist's is best known for his banking and financial wizardry, but his metal made US Steel.
Who is J.P. Morgan?
500
The first in this series of acts was signed into law by President Lincoln, on May 20, 1862.
What are the Homestead Acts?
500
This Teton Dakota Indian chief said “The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.”
Who is Sitting Bull?
500
The Boss of Tammany Hall in New York City.
Who is Boss Tweed?
500
This African-American scholar, activist and NAACP co-founder pushed for full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
500
This American business man not only controlled the price of the stocks he bought, but the stock market itself.