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Andrew Carnegie and J.P. Morgan both were ‘captains’ of which industry?
Steel Production
What was the significant source of urban population growth in the United States from 1890-1920?
Immigration
The idea that the U.S. had a God-given right to expand its border westward to the Pacific Ocean.
Manifest Destiny
An area of land where the U.S. government forced Indians to live; usually less than desirable land.
Reservation
The main idea behind the settling of western lands by Americans in the early-1800s was known as (God given land)..
Manifest Destiny
The purpose of this act was to encourage people to populate U.S. territories west of the Mississippi River.
Homestead Act 1862
This 1887 law required Native Americans to give up their "Indian" ways and adopt "American" ways.
Dawes Act
This is the site in South Dakota where, in 1890, US soldiers massacred over 150 Lakota men, women, and children.
Wounded Knee
Completed by largely Chinese and Irish labor, this railway was completed in Promontory Point, Utah, 1869, linking the western and eastern parts of the United States.
Transcontinental Railroad
This is the name given to the combat between Lakota and Cheyenne and the US Army's Seventh Cavalry in 1876. It resulted in the deaths of nearly half of the unit, including General George Armstrong Custer.
Little Big Horn
Where the final shots of the Civil War were fired?
Fort Sumter
People and cultures combine to a degree in which a homogenous culture is created from many. The United States is a _______ ________ of cultures.
"Melting Pot"
All of these were prominent names were figures in WHICH social movement?
Abolition
The first all-black regiment in the U.S. Army.
54th Massachusetts
Sectionalism was a major part of the events that led to the Civil War. What does sectionalism refer to?
Life in the North was very different than life in the South.
This organization was created to help slaves adjust to their newfound freedom..
Freedmen's Bureau
The Federal government intervention in the former Confederate states in order to monitor the treatment of former slaves refers to this era..
Reconstruction
This was Lincoln's plan for re-admitting southern states back into the union..
10% Plan
Lincoln's decree that freed the slaves in the rebelling areas..
Emancipation
The Amendment which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude was the..
13th
The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point.
Gettysburg
Henry Ford's most noteworthy contribution to industry is the..
Assembly line process of production.
The Transcontinental Railroads that opened up the West had a devastating effect on..
Native Americans
In the years following the Civil War, as many as 40,000 African-Americans moved to western states like Colorado, Oklahoma, and Kansas to escape the discrimination, racism, and violence of the "Jim Crow" South. Which term or phrase is MOST CLOSELY associated with this trend?
Exodusters
A market where one company controls the supply of a product or service.
Monopoly