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2. This was small-level mining using picks & shovels, and panning

3. Placer Mining

4. These were towns that grew very quickly around areas where gold and silver were found

5. Boom Towns

6. This type of mining was run by corporations and were dug deep underground

7. Quartz Mining

8. Using government-owned grasslands to feed cattle was a feature of this type of ranching

9. Open-Range Ranching

10. Joseph Glidden’s invention changed ranching and farming in the West forever

11. Barbed Wire

12. This replaced whale oil as the principal fuel for lighting

13. Kerosene

14. The belief that business works best when government keeps out of the way is known as this

15. Laissez-Faire

16. People that risk capital (money) in seeking profits are called this

17. Entrepreneurs

18. He invented the telephone

19. Alexander Graham Bell

20. These were the two railroads which combined to create the first transcontinental railroad in the US

21. The Union Pacific and the Central Pacific

22. Immigrants to the US in the latter half of the 1800’s mostly came from these two European regions

23. Southern and Eastern Europe

24. Immigrants to the American East Coast were processed here

25. Ellis Island, New York

26. Immigrants to the American West Coast, mainly single Asian males, were processed here

27. Angel Island, San Francisco, California

28. They were Americans who disliked immigrants and wanted immigration curtailed or prohibited

29. Nativists

30. His book, How the Other Half Lives, exposed the harsh living conditions of New York’s immigrant population

31. Jacob Riis

32. This law attempted to reform the US Civil Service

33. The Pendleton Act

34. This governmental body was established in 1887 to regulate railroad rates and other commerce issues

35. The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)

36. Although it lacked “teeth,” this law was the first to act against trusts

37. The Sherman Anti-Trust Act

38. The decision by the US government to stop minting silver coins in 1873 was decried by the Populists as this

39. The Crime of ‘73

40. First established in Lampasas, these organizations of farmers later came together as the People’s Party (Populists)

41. The Alliance Movement

42. He dominated the oil industry

43. John D. Rockefeller

44. He was the most infamous of the city bosses

45. Boss Tweed (William Marcy Tweed)

46. He dominated the steel industry

47. Andrew Carnegie

48. Her settlement house, Hull House, became the model for others

49. Jane Addams

51. His stories were based on the formula of the good man who strikes it rich due to hard work and good character

52. Horatio Alger

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54. The US government encouraged settlement in the West with this 1862 law that offered free land

55. The Homestead Act

56. These were large, corporate owned and run, Western farms

57. Bonanza Farms

58. This was the worst massacre of Indians by whites in the American West

59. The Sand Creek Massacre

60. This was vital to the Indian way of life

61. The Buffalo

62. This law broke up reservations into individual farming plots and expected Indians to become farmers What it did was destroy Indian culture

63. The 1887 Dawes Act

64. A Socialist and leader of the American Railway Union, he was imprisoned after the violent Pullman Strike He was also jailed during WWI for violation the Sedition Act He also ran for President several times as a Socialist

65. Eugene V. Debs

66. African-American woman who wrote about, and fought against, the lynching of blacks in the South

67. Ida B. Wells

68. They were wealthy businessmen who, it is believed, gained their wealth through scams, bribes, and cheating

69. The Robber Barons

70. He spread the Gospel of Wealth, the belief that the wealthy had the responsibility of philanthropy (giving their money away for good causes)

71. Andrew Carnegie

72. An architect, he was a force behind the movement to build skyscrapers

73. Louis Sullivan

74. This was the major issue in the elections of 1892 and 1896

75. Gold and silver

76. In 1896, he was the presidential nominee for both the Democratic and Populist Parties

77. William Jennings Bryan

78. He won in 1896 using his “Front Porch” campaign

79. William McKinley

80. These were the first organizations that farmers established, hoping to secure cheaper seed prices and railroad rates through cooperatives

81. Granges

82. A firm believer in the Spoils System, New York Senator Conkling led this group of Republicans

83. The Stalwarts

84. In 1852, Commodore Perry used force to open this country for trade

85. Japan

86. When she threatened the plantations of American settlers, this queen was overthrown

87. Queen Liliuokalani

88. His book, The Influence of Sea Power on History, argued that for a nation to be great it had to have a powerful navy and overseas supply bases

89. Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan

90. The 1898 Spanish-American War was sparked by this

91. The explosion and sinking of the USS Maine

92. As a result of Spain’s defeat in 1898, the US acquired these three territories

93. Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines

94. They were journalists who wrote articles exposing social and political problems

95. Muckrakers

96. This state was the model for Progressive reform

97. Wisconsin

98. Passed in 1920, this Constitutional Amendment was the last of the Progressive campaigns

99. The 19 th Amendment The right of women to vote

100. His book, The Jungle, exposing the meatpacking industry, helped spur Congress to pass the Pure Food and Drug Act

101. Upton Sinclair

102. He was the last of the “Progressive Presidents”

103. Woodrow Wilson

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105. His assassination sparked WWI

106. The Archduke Ferdinand Heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne

107. This German Plan, tweaked over several years, was put into place to prevent a two- front war

108. Schlieffen Plan

109. These were the Triple Entente During the war they were known as the Allies

110. France, Great Britain, and Russia

111. List four reasons why the United States entered the war on the side of the Allies

112. Unrestricted submarine warfare The Zimmerman telegram British propaganda Strong economic ties to the Allies

113. Very quickly the war in Western Europe became stagnant and the armies dug in and fought hard for mere yards This type of warfare was called this

114. Trench Warfare

115. Many thought that these two Italian immigrant anarchists were “railroaded” for the crime of murder

116. Sacco & Vanzetti

117. Increased religious fundamentalism and Nativism caused the rise of this organization mainly in the Mid-West

118. The KKK

119. These young women dressed provocatively and rebelled against accepted behavior

120. The Flapper

121. In this famous trial, the issue was whether the subject of evolution should be taught in schools

122. The Scopes “Monkey” Trial

123. Progressives achieved a victory through this Constitutional Amendment and the accompanying Volstead Act

124. The 18 th Amendment Prohibition of Alcohol

125. Tired of Progressivism and war, people voted for Warren G. Harding for President based on his campaign slogan

126. Normalcy

127. Though Harding had died before it became public, this is considered on of the worst US Presidential scandals

128. The Teapot Dome Scandal

129. This group of Americans did not find prosperity during the 1920s

130. Farmers

131. Hoping to help Germany who was unfairly treated in the Versailles Treaty, the US adopted this plan which reduced and restructured Germany’s reparations payments

132. The Dawes Plan

133. The Washington Conference was the only serious inter-war attempt at arms limitations. This was the treaty produced by the conference that set quotas and ratios on battleship production in the Pacific

134. The Five-Power Treaty

135. October 29, 1929 “Black Tuesday”

136. Stock Market Crash

137. This high tariff hurt European economies and is considered a contributing factor to the Great Depression

138. Hawley-Smoot Tariff

139. Drought and high winds combined to create a disaster in states like Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas

140. The Dust Bowl

141. Wanting money promised to them in 1945, they marched on Washington DC where they were attacked by government troops

142. The Bonus Army

143. He was president as the Great Depression began

144. Herbert Hoover

145. He wrote Grapes of Wrath which told the story of a family migrating from the Depression-era Dust Bowl

146. John Steinbeck

147. An innovator in airplane design, he is considered the father of American naval aviation

148. Glenn Curtiss

149. He was the Democratic nominee for president twice and led the prosecution in the Scopes Trial

150. William Jennings Bryan

151. She was the first female pilot to attempt to fly around the world

152. Amelia Earhart

153. He made history when he flew solo non-stop from St. Louis to Paris, France in 1927 in his plane, The Spirit of St. Louis

154. Charles Lindbergh

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156. During the Great Depression this program hired young males to work in National Parks

157. CCC Civilian Conservation Corps

158. This program paid farmers NOT to grow food and killed livestock so that prices would rise

159. AAA Agricultural Adjustment Administration

160. This program constructed several dams along the Tennessee River to provide electricity to rural Americans

161. TVA Tennessee Valley Authority

162. This guaranteed that bank depositors’ money was safe even if the bank failed

163. FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

164. This union was established by John L. Lewis after the AFL ousted several groups

165. CIO Congress of Industrial Organizations

166. The sinking of this passenger liner in 1915 by the Germans shocked America

167. The Lusitania

168. This governmental body was established to coordinate the production of war materiel

169. The War Industries Board (WIB)

170. Blacks migrated from the South to Northern cities to work in war industries

171. The Great Migration

172. He headed the American propaganda effort in the Committee on Public Information

173. George Creel

174. This was WWI’s greatest battle for the US

175. Battle of the Argonne Forest

176. The fight for victory over our enemies but also over racism was embodied by this program

177. The Double V Program

178. FDR signed Executive Order 8802 which stated there would be no discrimination in hiring in war industries after he threatened to organize a march on Washington DC by the black Sleeping Car Porters Union

179. A. Philip Randolph

180. Mexicans were encouraged to migrate to the US in this program established to provide adequate labor on American farms

181. The Bracero Program

182. Ethnic tensions turned to violence in Los Angeles between white servicemen and young Latino men

183. Zoot Suit Riots

184. He led the US Navy and he led the US Army in the two- pronged Island-Hopping campaign against Japan

185. US Navy – Admiral Chester Nimitz US Army – General Douglas MacArthur

186. Bay of Pigs Cuban Missile Crisis

187. President John F. Kennedy

188. A one-time Collector of the Port of New York, he signed into law the Pendleton Act which ended the spoils system and established the US Civil Service

189. President Chester A. Arthur

190. His assassination thrust Theodore Roosevelt into the presidency which alarmed many Republicans at the time

191. President William McKinley

192. His second term was marred by the economic depression which followed the Panic of 1893 During that depression he stated that it was the peoples’ responsibility to support the government but that it was not the government’s responsibility to support the people

193. President Grover Cleveland

194. Presided over the US war against Spain in 1898

195. President William McKinley

196. This technological innovation allowed the middle class to escape the inner cities and move to suburbs

197. Electric trolleys

198. He led efforts to get rid of socialist and anarchist immigrant radicals during the Red Scare following WWI

199. US Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer

200. A type of journalism that is biased, and often based on false information and sensationalism for the sake of attracting readers

201. Yellow Journalism

202. This program allowed the US to supply Great Britain and later the USSR and China during WWII

203. Lend-Lease

204. The guilt of the Rosenbergs for passing nuclear secrets and other Americans spying for the Communists were confirmed by this

205. Project Venona