2. Question?? I was the former slave who founded Tuskegee Institute?

3. Answer!! Booker T. washington

4. Question?? I founded one of the first department stores, put some items on sale in the basement and catered to female customers?

5. Answer!! Marshall Field

6. Question?? I revolutionized southern agriculture by finding ways to end its dependence on cotton, I developed new uses for the peanut and sweet potatoes?

7. Answer!! George Washington Carver

8. Question?? We are two newspaper owners who used yellow journalism to increase our newspapers’ circulation?

9. Answer!! William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer

10. Question?? I was the first African American to earn a PhD from Harvard and was also one of the founders of the NAACP. I encouraged my people to fight for equality?

11. Answer!! W.E.B. DuBois

12. Question?? I was the inventor of the Kodak camera which only cost one dollar. As a result, Americans could take photos of themselves?

13. Answer!! George Eastman

14. Question?? I coined the term “The Gilded Age.” I was one of America’s popular authors ?

15. Answer!! Mark Twain

16. Question?? What was the Supreme Court ruling in the Plessy v. Ferguson case (1896)?

17. Answer!! The Supreme Court established the “separate but equal” doctrine, upholding segregation

18. Question?? In 1886, I formed the American federation of Labor (AFL), a loose organization of skilled workers from local unions devoted to specific crafts or trades. We were often called a bread and butter” union. Who am I?

19. Answer!! Samuel Gompers

20. Question?? What was the primary purpose of the Interstate Commerce Act?

21. Answer!! To regulate railroad rates

22. Question?? The idea that business should be allowed to compete and function without interference is known as ?

23. Answer!! Social Darwinism

24. Question?? What land was considered to be the “American Frontier” of the last half of the 1800s?

25. Answer!! The area between the Mississippi River and the Rockies

26. Question?? Why did the U.S. government ban the Ghost Dance?

27. Answer!! U.S. officials feared the ritual dance would lead to uprisings

28. Question?? What effect did the Dawes Act have on the lives of native Americans?

29. Answer!! It forced them to abandon their own culture and adopt white culture

30. Question?? Who was Helen Hunt Jackson?

31. Answer!! Helen Hunt Jackson was the author of A Century of Dishonor, in which she sharply criticized the U.S. government’s treatment of Native Americans

32. Question?? What U.S. colonel fought the Sioux Indians at the Battle of the Little Bighorn? He disobeyed orders and he and all of his men were killed?

33. Answer!! Colonel George Custer

34. Question?? Can you name at least three Robber Barons described in the unit?

35. Answer!! Cornelius Vanderbilt, John Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie

36. Question?? Who was the boss of New York’s corrupt political machine of the 1870s?

37. Answer!! William “Boss” Tweed

38. Question?? Why did the ‘New Immigrants” coming to the U.S. after 1890 settle mainly in the cities?

39. Answer!! Most were too poor to establish themselves as farmers once the frontier was closed

40. Question?? What was a provision of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act ?

41. Answer!! It prohibited practices which restricted trade

42. Question?? In what period did the largest number of immigrants enter the U.S.?

43. Answer!! During Industrial building and development: 1890-1910

44. Question?? Why did President Cleveland veto a literacy-test bill ?

45. Answer!! He believed it discriminated against those who had never had educational opportunities

46. Question?? What LAW directly affected immigrants who had ALREADY arrived in the U.S.?

47. Answer!! The California Alien Land Law

48. Question?? What was an effect of the Gentleman’s Agreement of 1907-1908 on Japanese immigration?

49. Answer!! The Agreement decreased Japanese immigration

50. Question?? What was the purpose of the Homestead Act of 1862?

51. Answer!! To encourage settlement of public lands for farming

52. Question?? Where did most Asian immigrants enter America?

53. Answer!! Through Angel Island (California)

54. Question?? Where did most European immigrants enter America?

55. Answer!! Through Ellis Island (NY)

56. Question?? What famous cartoonist helped bring down Boss Tweed and his political machine Tammany Hall. Even people who couldn’t read understood his cartoons?

57. Answer!! Thomas Nast

58. Question?? Term describing a form of corruption in government?

59. Answer!! Graft

60. Question?? What is the theory that immigrants who come to America, still retain important aspects of their ethnic identities?

61. Answer!! Mixed Salad

62. Question?? What is the term for the theory that immigrants came to America and gave up their past cultural identities?

63. Answer!! Melting Pot

64. Question?? Can you provide descriptions of the American Cowboy?

65. Answer!! 1 in 7 seven were black Many were unskilled and learned to be a cowboy The Long Drive would often last 3 to 4 months They wore hats, bandannas, spurs, jeans