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Immigration
Western Expansion
You-Never-Know
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Inventors
100
"They" were treated much better than immigrants from Eastern Europe
"Old Immigrants" (before the turn of the century 1900 from Western Europe)
100
What painting represents the period of western expansion
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
Separation of people based on race...
What is segregation?
100
Steel Plow Inventor
Who is John Deere?
100
Established the first "inventions shop" called Menlo Park NY
What is Thomas Edison
200
Of the two immigration stations, which would have been the entry location coming from China?
Angel
200
Which Act (law) offered 100 acres of land in the west to anyone who would farm/improve it for 5 years?
What is the Homestead Act
200
Favoring the interests of of native-born people over those of immigrants.
What is nativism?
200
The original "robber baron"..
Who is John Rockefeller?
200
Assembly line cars & a town built to house his workers..
Who are Henry Ford and George Pullman
300
Name two of the three general reasons for immigration to the United States during this era?
What are crop failures (Irish Potato Famine), religious freedom, political unrest/pressure.
300
This battle effectively ended the Indian Wars for the entire era?
What is Wounded Knee?
300
Application of Darwin's natural philosophy of survival of the fittest to support unlimited business competition.
What is social Darwinism?
300
Both were notable for their use of the refrigerated rail car and meat-packing
Who are Armour & Swift?
300
Developed a cheaper way to create steel from iron..
Who is Bessemer?
400
Which nationality of immigrants were employed in building the transcontinental railroad from California to Utah?
Who are Chinese Immigrants
400
African-Americans that moved from post-reconstruction south to Kansas.
Who are Exodusters
400
Nickname for the prairie homes that were constructed from blocks of prairie grass and turf..
What is a Soddie?
400
Gospel of Wealth
Who is Andrew Carnagie?
400
Hull House & Founder of the NAACP
Who were Jane Addams & W.E.B. DuBois
500
Name for the overcrowded buildings for which immigrants in the Northeast were forced to live?
What is a tenement house
500
Name of the law with the intention of breaking up native-American tribal lands and giving some it to heads of households and unmarried adults.
What is the Dawes Act
500
Organization of farmers to combat the power of the railroad
What is a Grange?
500
How The Other Half Lives & The Jungle (2)
Who are Jacob Riis and Upton Sinclair?
500
First Flight Pioneers & Scientific Management
Who are the Wright Bros & Frederick Taylor