Great Plains
What legislation offered settlers 160 acres of free land to anyone who would occupy and improve it?
The Homestead Act of 1862.
Who was the first president to be elected for two nonconsecutive terms?
Grover Cleveland
This individual was the founder of the first industrial laboratory acted as catalyst for being awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor for their innovative technology. Who was it?
Thomas Alva Edison ( Tip: Nicknamed The Wizard of Menlo Park due to location of the laboratory)
Between the two national labor unions in the late 19th-century, which one had the following requisite: regardless of occupation members within the Union were obligated to strike.
The Knight of Labor
After Sitting Bull death, What crucial event transpired after?
Battle of Wounded Knee
Who had the shortest presidency?
James Garfield
What is the name of first billion dollar worth the U.S. enterprise?
U.S. Steel
What renewed inventor is attributed for establishing the first mobile classroom?
George Washington Carver
During the Economic Depression of 1873, Cattle meat became an American staple. What were the three influencing factors?
Graded meat in demand, Scientific feeding and Breeding, Barbed wire
President McKinley is attributed for what affair?
Congress declared the commencement of the Spanish-American War while President McKinley was in office.
Scenario: As an employee of Tasty Tomato Co., Agatha is tasked to withdraw any perished tomato for about +5 years. The above analogy is part of _____ assembly -line production method.
Taylorism
Author of over 100 children books, all in which the central premises was the adverse endeavors of the protagonist laborers against the antagonist entrepreneurial.
Horatio Alger
Scenario: Theodore major adversity in terms of profitability in early 20th-century was the overproduction of squash. Like many others that endured several grievances within this timeframe, he'll opt towards doing what? (hint: distance/location)
Relocated to an Urban sector
President ____ was assassinated by an individual who held anarchist values.
President William McKinley
Scenario: Brooklyn operates an ore mine within the state of Minnesota. She desired to enhanced profitability through an ownership expansion of transit-system to decrease this overhead expense to their nearest steel manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania. The analogy is an example of ____ mass-production method.
Integrated Company
According to the lecture, who was the individual that advocated for women's suffrage?
Susan B. Anthony
List the four Cattle Trail?
Chisholm Trail, Sedalia Trail, Goodnight-Loving Trail, and The Western Trail.
During 1896 presidential race, William Jennings Bryan lost the election due three reason. What were they?
Gold Found in Alaska, Crop value up (prices), Urban feared Bryan
In the late 19th-century the U.S. experienced two major migration waves, The New migrants derived from where?
Southeastern Europe
List the four reasons for which Laborers and Unions failed to achieve collective bargaining against Corporations.
Blacklistment, Yellow-Dog Contract, Lockout, & Strike Breakers