Many people died from disease, others from starvation and still others from the climate or Indian attacks at these two early attempts at British colonization of the New World.
What are Roanoke and Jamestown.
100
This was the first large scale convention in the Western World on Women's Rights.
What was the Seneca Falls convention?
100
These shrewd individuals flocked to the war torn south selling "snake oil" remedies and other misleading products to the desperate citizens of the southern states following the Civil War.
What were carpetbaggers?
100
This man used vertical integration, gaining all factors of production so the end product is all profit, and the Bessemer process to create cheap steel and become one of the wealthiest men in history.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
100
In these immigrant workers, sometimes children, worked in cramped conditions for long hours receiving low wages.
What are sweatshops?
200
This global war between France and England and their new colonies was very costly to the British Crown and eventually led to unpopular taxes and restrictions in the American colonies.
What is the Seven Years War?
200
This contributed to the rise of slavery in the early 1800's more than any other single event.
What was the invention of the cotton gin?
200
This gave the Black Hills to the Lakota Sioux Indians as well as seasonal hunting grounds from the Missouri River, North Platte River and Big Horn mountains.
What was the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868?
200
A grant of land, or typically money, from the government for (typically) producing a certain commodity.
What is a subsidy?
200
With this, voters can vote a bill into law during the next election.
What is referendum?
300
This was added to the Constitution to appease the anti-federalists by providing various personal rights to all citizens (who were white, typically educated, owned land and male)
What is the Bill of Rights
300
This President served during the Era of Good Feelings and is most well known for an address written to the powers of Europe by his Secretary of State, John Quincy Adams.
Who is James Monroe?
300
This redistributed reservation land to individual Native Americans, which ultimately equaled much of native land parcels being sold to White settlers.
What was the Dawes Act?
300
This is a group of corporations with the board of directors.
What is a trust?
300
These were created by progressives such as Jane Addams to help poor immigrants assimilate into American Society.
What are Settlement Houses?
400
This cash crop eventually made the Jamestown colony profitable, saving it from ruin.
What is tobacco?
400
This event was the final spark to the Civil War.
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?
400
This was the court case that established that slaves were not citizens and could therefore not sue in court. It also deemed the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.
What was the Dred Scott Case?
400
This includes money, machinery, labor, and other investments that have wealth.
What is capital?
400
This attempted to put an end to the spoils system by making appointed positions take a test proving their ability to perform a given job.
What is the Pendleton Act?
500
This battle happened on Christmas Day, consisting of George Washington crossing the Delaware and routing the hired Hessian mercenaries.
What was the Battle of Trenton?
500
This Battle is considered Robert E. Lee's greatest military victory, and consisted of Lee splitting his inferior force and flanking the larger Union Army ending in an all out retreat of the Army of the Potomac.
What is Chancellorsville?
500
These factors lead to the development of the West more than any other. (Must list all 3 - 5 possible guesses)
What are railroads, the cattle industry and mining?
500
This banned the formation of trusts and monopolies.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
500
These are the basics of the 16th and 17th amendments.
What is the right to levy an income tax (16) and changed the election of senators to popular vote instead of being elected by state congressman (17)?