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The years immediately before and after the Civil War were the era of the ___________, marked by cattle drives for hundreds of miles. | cowboy |
This legislation gave free public land in the western territories to settlers who would live on and farm the land. | Homestead Act of 1862 |
During the early 20th century immigrants from Europe entered America through here. | Ellis Island |
He developed the light bulb and electricity as a source of power and light. | Thomas Edison |
He developed the telephone | Alexander Graham Bell |
He developed the Airplane | Wright Brothers |
He developed assembly line manufacturing | Henry Ford |
He was the industry leader in steel. | Andrew Carnegie |
He was the industry leader in finance. | JP Morgan |
He was the industry leader in oil. | John D. Rockefeller |
He was the industry leader in railroads. | Cornelius Vanderbilt |
This supreme court case ruled that "separate but equal" did not violate the 14th amendment. | Plessy v Ferguson |
During the late 19th and early 20th century, African Americans began this, a movement to Northern cities in search of jobs and to escape poverty and discrimination | Great Migration |
She led an anti-lynching crusade and called on the federal government to take action. | Ida B. Wells |
He believed that the way to equality was through vocational education and economic success; he accepted social separation. | Booker T. Washington |
He believed that education was meaningless without equality and formed the NAACP. | WEB Dubois |
This movement used the government to reform problems created by industrialization. | Progressive Movement |
These were progressive accomplishments in state governments. | Referendum, initiative, and recall |
Which amendment provided for direct election of US senators? | 17th Amendment |
Which amendment guaranteed women's suffrage? | 19th Amendment |
These journalists used literature to expose problems in American society. | Muckrakers |
These labor strikes occurred during the Progressive Era. | Haymarket, Homestead, and Pullman |
This legislation prevents any business structure that "restrains trade" (like monopolies) | Sherman Anti-Trust Act |
This legislation expanded the Sherman Act and outlaws price-fixing; exempts unions from the Sherman Act | Clayton Anti-Trust Act |
She was a leader of the women's suffrage movement | Susan B. Anthony |
He developed a process for making iron into steel | Henry Bessemer |
She wrote a book that targeted the oil industry and its corrup practices | Ida Tarbell |
This movement aimed to outlaw alcohol (enforce Prohibition) | Temperance |
This amendment outlawed the manufacture and sale of alcohol in the United States | 18th Amendment |
This amendment repealed the 18th Amendment | 21st Amendment |
This was President Theodore Roosevelt's reform program | Square Deal |
Jane Addams started this famous settlement house to aid immigrants | Hull House |
A business that is formed using money gathered from many investors | Corporation |
Multiple corporations all run by one board of directors | Trust |
When one person or group controls an entire industry | Monopoly |