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Hammond Category and History
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The Homestead Act offered 160 acres of land to any citizen willing to settle in which of these areas?
The West (Big Square).
100
The Populist movement was started by people in this occupation.
Farmers
100
What is one thing the Interstate Commerce Act and the Sherman Antitrust Act have in common?
They both attempted to regulate the power of monopolies
100
New or Old Immigrant? South European man settling on a farm.
Old
100
What is Social Darwinism
Survival of the Fittest
100
What was the 16th Amendment?
Income tax
100
What is Mr.Hammonds go to lunch (There are 3 parts)
Chicken,cheese,rice
200
What is the vocab term used to describe policy that made Native Americans more "American"?
Assimilation Policy
200
What was William Jennings Bryan's most famous speech and what was it about
Cross of gold :Support for the free coinage of silver.
200
What does this photo depict? (One object = 1 factory)
Horizontal Integration
200
Where were new immigrants most likely from?
South or East Europe
200
Striking, Picketing, Boycotts, and collective bargaining are all forms of __________ _______ tactics
Labor Union
200
The 16th & 17th Amendments were a lasting reforms for which political party?
Populist Party
300
How did inventions like barbed wire, the prairie fan, and the mechanical reaper impact farming?
They made it easier for farmers to grow more crops.
300
True or False: The populist party wanted less involvement of the government in the economy.
False.
300
Who benefited most from the idea of laissez-faire economics?
Big Industries Owners
300
How did Boss Tweed from the Tammany Hall Political Machine get the votes of poor people?
By offering them services!
300
Who created the U.S. Forest Service?
President Theodore Roosevelt
300
What was the 18th amendment?
Prohibition of the sale of liquor
300
Towns that were made next to mines are better known as
Boomtowns
400
What Animal was a threat to the railroads
Buffalo
400
What movie was a reference for the Populist party
Wizard of OZ
400
Who held a monopoly in the Railroad Industry
Cornelius Vanderbuilt
400
Why did Americans feel the need to implement the Chinese Exclusion Act?
They believed the Chinese were taking their jobs.
400
Who wrote The Jungle and what was it about?
Upton Sinclair and Sanitation concerns in the meat packing industry
400
What was the 19th Amendment?
Women's right to vote
400
In Hammondopolis there were 4 things that were changed about you. What were they
Name,Speaking and rolling up sleeves and A at the end of sentences
500
What occurred at the Battle of Wounded Knee?
A group of Native Americans was massacred by the US Army.
500
Why do farmers want Bimetallism?
They believed the expansion of currency would increase crop prices and solve the money shortage.
500
If a company own all steps of the manufacturing and selling of a product, it is called: ______________
Vertical integration
500
What is Nativism?
The belief that people born in your own country are better than people born in different countries
500
Why did workers at the Pullman House go on strike?
Employees received wage cuts and were already in cycles of debt with their employers.
500
What does suffrage mean?
Voting rights?
500
What is the Northwest Ordinance
How states become states
600
We have heard the word Prohibition but what is the world to limit the amount of alcohol sold?
temperance
600
What was the Interstate Commerce Act? (What precedent did it set?)
This sets a precedent for the regulation of business by the federal government
600
How would a Big industry owner refute the claim that he is a robber baron?
He/she could count the number of jobs he/she created, or explicate their philanthropy
600
What did Jacob Rii's uncover with his photographs in his book "How the Other Side Lives"
The unsanitary and overcrowded conditions of tenements
600
During the Industrial Age, what caused a growth in labor union membership in the United States?
Terrible conditions of the factories
600
What is the 21st Amendment?
Repeal of Prohibition
600
Name three methods blacks faced when trying to vote in the south?
Literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clause
700
What key vocab term embodies the policy type of the Dawes Severalty Act?
What main thing did the Dawes Severalty Act do?
-Assimilation Policy
-Divided up Tribal Lands for individual ownership
700
The Election 1890: William ___________, a republican VS William _______ _____________, a democrat (populist)
William McKinley vs William Jennings Bryan
700
What was the Sherman Antitrust Act?
The Sherman Antitrust Act (1890) was the first major U.S. federal law that prohibited monopolies and anti-competitive business practices to protect free market competition
700
Who wrote the Gospel of Wealth and what is it about?
Carnegie, Rich people should donate wealth to the poor
700
Who passed the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Theodore Roosevelt
700
What was the 17th Amendment?
Direct Election of Senators
700
My middle name or hometown of Mr.Hammond
Jeffrey, Geneseo