Immigration
This immigration processing center was based in New York and primarily processed European immigrants.
What is Ellis Island?
This railroad connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and made the transportation of people and goods much easier.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
Who invented the light bulb?
Who is Thomas Edison?
This company was founded by John D. Rockefeller. It became a monopoly in the oil industry.
What is Standard Oil?
Millions of this species of animal were killed by American settlers to disturb the Plains Indians' way of life.
What are bison?
This immigration processing center was based in San Francisco, California. Most immigrants that went through this location originated from Asia.
What is Angel Island?
This point was where the final spike for the Transcontinental Railroad was placed by President Grant.
What is Promontory Summit?
This invention allowed people to communicate over long distances by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations.
What is a telegraph?
This man created a monopoly in the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This event was the final battle between the American government and the Plains Indians. During this event, the American soldiers killed 300 native men, women, and children at the camp.
What is Wounded Knee?
This act made immigrating to the United States nearly impossible for all Chinese immigrants.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This act provided citizens with a 160 acre plot out west if they agreed to cultivate and take care of the land for five years.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
This invention allows for recorded audio to be replayed.
What is the phonograph?
This business practice creates a monopoly by buying out all competitors in the same industry.
What is horizontal integration?
This Native American chief led the Sioux tribes during the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877.
Who is Sitting Bull?
This policy supports protecting native citizens and their interests to the detriment of others.
What is nativism?
These people herded cows from ranches to the "cow cities" where cows were slaughtered and sold for big profits.
What are cowboys?
This code was developed to allow people to interpret messages sent via telegraph.
What is morse code?
Unions utilize this strategy when business owners refuse to negotiate with them on better working conditions. This practice has workers refusing to work until working conditions improve.
What is a strike?
This religious movement was founded by the Native Americans, and they believed by undergoing this ritual, their ancestral lands would be reestablished and the bison population would replenish.
What are ghost dances?
Immigrants entering Angel Island were treated differently because of this.
What is racial prejustice?
Chinese immigrants worked for this railroad company during the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad. They worked for lower wages and worked under more dangerous conditions than their European counterparts.
What is the Central Pacific?
The production of long-lasting, commercially viable electric lighting led to this phenomenon.
What is an increase in factory operation hours?
This man founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL). He rejected violence, socialism, and utopian theories, preferring instead to focus on the peaceful, day-to-day struggle for practical goals, such as better wages, benefits, and working conditions.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
This American general attempted to push Native Americans out of the Black Hills area where Native Americans were settled. The Native Americans trapped this general and his men and killed all of them.
Who is George Custer?