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The Civil War
The Gilded Age
Industrial Leaders
Immigration
Westward Expansion
100
What president became the first modern-day Republican elected in 1860?

Abraham Lincoln

100
A very corrupt individual who controlled the Democratic Party in New York.

Boss Tweed

100

Created Standard Oil

John D. Rockefeller

100
Island in New York that vetted immigrants.

Ellis Island

100
The railroad that was built to connect the eastern and western parts of the United States.
The Transcontinental Railroad
200

The Civil War officially began when the Confederacy attacked Fort _______________.

Sumter

200

__________ Hall was where the head of the New York Democratic Party was located.

Tammany

200
Made his fortune in the U.S. due to his steel business.

Andrew Carnegie

200
Island in California that vetted immigrants.

Angel Island

200

Many people moved west due to the discovery of this valuable substance.

Gold

300

The Confederacy was considered to have the strongest military leaders.  The general that led the Confederacy was ____________.

Robert E. Lee

300

He was a political cartoonist who wrote for Harper's Weekly.  He exposed political corruption in New York.

Thomas Nast
300

Supported DC electricity because he thought AC was too dangerous.

Thomas Edison

300

Created Hull Houses in Chicago to provide social services, education, etc. to immigrants.

Jane Addams

300

The idea that it was our destiny to move west.

Manifest Destiny

400

The period after the Civil War which was an attempt to bring the country back together was called __________.  It lasted from 1865 to 1877.

Reconstruction

400
Charles Guiteau assassinated President ____________ because Guiteau believed he deserved a position in his administration.

James Garfield

400

Made most of his money in banking and financing.

JP Morgan
400

A muckraking journalist who exposed the living conditions in New York where immigrants lived.

Jacob Riis
400

This was passed to give people who moved west a certain amount of land.  You had to pay a fee, farm it, and improve the land over the course of 5 years to keep it.

The Homestead Act

500

There were 3 U.S. Amendments added to the U.S. Constitution.  One ended slavery, the second gave former slaves citizenship, and the third did what?

Gave former slaves the right to vote.

500
The ____________ Act ended the Spoils System, a system in which people are awarded jobs based on favoritism instead of merit.

Pendleton

500

Supported the AC model of electricity.

Nikola Tesla
500

Prevented any more Chinese Laborers from entering the United States.

The Chinese Exclusion Act

500

Custers' Last Stand was located in ____________.

The Black Hills