The Civil War and Reconstruction
Industrialization and Immigration
Modern America
Boom and Bust
Mystery Vocab and Questions
100
Who were the group of republicans who insisted that the South had committed crimes in the civil war and pushed for establishing full, equal rights for African Americans.
What is Radical Republicans?
100
________ is complete control of a product or service
What is monopoly?
100
What was the book about the evils of the factory workers - turned meat packaging awareness book called and who wrote it?
What is 'The Jungle' and Upton Sinclair.
100
What is the name of the company that was going to build the Panama Canal and why did they not?
What is The French Company and bankruptcy?
100
List four of the five problems with urbanization.
What is overcrowding, poor sanitation, lack of water, fire, crime, and conflict?
200
What was the government bureau assigned to help freed slaves after the Civil War?
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
200
What is the word for the policies that allow businesses to operate with minimal governmental regulation.
What is Laissez Faire?
200
Who were the rival Newspaper publishers of the Gilded Age. Credited with the creation of “yellow journalism”?
What is Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst?
200
Germany, Austria-Hungary, The Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria were apart of the _______ Powers during WWI?
What is Central?
200
Pioneering female black leader and writer who set out to expose the “southern horrors” of segregation.
What is Ida Wells?
300
What act divided the Confederacy into military districts?
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
300
What were the two labor unions established during the time of industrialization?
What is 'The Knights of Labor' and the 'American Federation of Labor'?
300
Out of the two main leaders of the African American movement, ________ was more timid, believing African Americans had to earn their freedom and _______ was more extreme saying that they should create an elite group.
What is Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DeBois?
300
What New Deal program provided long term government jobs to schools and other public works project.
What is the Works Progress Administration?
300
What is the name of the movement to organize farmers in order to promote education for farmers, railroad regulation, and grain elevator rates.
What is The Granger Movement?
400
Who was the famous abolitionist dedicated to ending slavery in the United States by starting violent raids?
What is John Brown?
400
What act outlaws unfair methods of competition and unfair acts or practices that affect commerce?
What is Federal Trade Commission Act?
400
What was the program set up by Roosevelt that insured more money in banks to encourage people to begin using them again?
What is Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
400
Which famous author is the one who first coined the term 'Gilded Age'?
What is Mark Twain?
500
What battle is known as being the bloodiest single day in the Civil War?
What is The Battle of Antietam?
500
Ellis Island saw immigrants mainly from _______ countries whereas Angle Island saw immigrants mainly from _______ countries.
What is European and Asian?
500
What act was created in order to ensure fair business practices and made it a crime to monopolize any part of commerce?
What is Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
500
Which US President refused to sign a treaty of annexation with Hawai'i and which President is eventually responsible for that annexation?
What is Grover Cleveland and William McKinley?
500
What was an attempt to end the reservation system for Indians by granted them parcels of land to farm with the hopes of assimilating them into society.
What is The Dawes Act?