| A | B |
|---|
| Pacific Railway Act | Government money for transcontinental RR |
| Inventions | made work easier and faster |
| vaqueros | brought longhorns to Texas |
| monopolies | reduced competition |
| Transcontinental Railroad | helped sell goods in eastern markets |
| Asian immigrants | faced more prejudice than European immigrants |
| Homestead Act | 160 acres yours after 5 years |
| Great Plains | treeless, flat, grassy, dry center of USA |
| Sod house | warm in winter, cool in summer |
| Ended cattle drives | barbed wire, more railroads, too many cattle & sheep |
| Lakota & Cheyenne | fought against life on reservations |
| caused near extinction of buffalo | loss of habitat, hunting, disease |
| forced assimilation of Indians | schools, clothes, haircuts, change religion |
| Dawes Act | broke up reservations into individual farms |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | kept out Chinese immigrants |
| poem engraved on base of Statue of Liberty | "Give me your tired, your poor... |
| Progressives | wanted laws to protect workers |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | no chemicals, clean factories |
| Meat Inspection Act | no chemicals, clean factories |
| The Great Migration | African Americans moving north for jobs |
| Progressive Amendments | 16, 17, 18, 19 |
| 16th Amendment | national income tax |
| 17th Amendment | citizens elect senators |
| 18th Amendment | no sale of alcoholic beverages |
| 19th Amendment | women's right to vote |
