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Question: This was completed at Promontory Point, Utah in 1869.

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Answer: 1st Transcontinental RR

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Question: This was passed by the United States in order to settle the Great Plains and offered settlers land.

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Answer: Homestead Act

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Question: This was the year the frontier officially “closed.”

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Answer: 1890

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Question: This was the last of the “Indian Wars” (armed resistance between US Troops and Native Americans).

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Answer: Wounded Knee

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Question: Name the two groups of immigrants who worked to complete the first Transcontinental RR and the direction from which they worked.

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Answer: Irish from the East and Chinese from the West

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Question: Immigrants to the United States entered at this point on the East Coast.

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Answer: Ellis Island

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Question: The cramped apartment buildings in the slums which housed many new immigrants during the Gilded Age

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Answer: tenements

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Question: This was the negative sentiment based on fear, suspicion, and hostility that “native-born Americans” felt toward the “new immigrants”

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Answer: nativism

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Question: This was the first piece of legislation passed by our country to limit or regulate immigration.

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Answer: Chinese Exclusion Act

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Question: This labor union was the one that was “open” to skilled and unskilled workers of all races.

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Answer: The Knights of Labor

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Question: The negative term or nickname applied to those millionaires created during the Gilded Age

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Answer: Robber Barons

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Question: The Standard Oil Guy

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Answer: John Rockefeller

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Question: The Steel Guy

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Answer: Carnegie

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Question: This process allowed for the process of steel to become more profitable and for the creation of stronger steel.

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Answer: Bessemer Process

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Question: This method of business organization emphasized the merging of companies that produce similar products (think oil spill)

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Answer: horizontal integration (organization)

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Question: 1896 Supreme Court Case that legalized the “separate but equal” doctrine

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Answer: Plessy vs. Ferguson

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Question: He was the early civil rights leader known to support a gradual approach to the fight for equal rights and gave the speech known as the Atlanta Compromise.

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Answer: Booker T. Washington

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Question: He was the early civil rights leader who wanted immediate action and social, political, and economic equality for African Americans.

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Answer: WEB Dubois

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Question: Laws enacted by Southern state and local governments to separate white and black people in public and private facilities

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Answer: Jim Crow laws

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Question: Name the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.

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Answer: 13th-outlawed slavery, 14th-citizenship, 15th-voting rights

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Question: He was the leader of the most powerful political machine in New York.

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Answer: Boss Tweed

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Question: This economic term refers to little or no government regulation of the economy.

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Answer: laissez faire

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Question: This man became President as a result of the “Compromise of 1877” which also brought an end to Reconstruction

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Answer: Rutherford B. Hayes

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Question: This labor union was only open to skilled, male, white workers.

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Answer: AFL (American Federation of Labor)

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Question: This was passed to end problems associated with patronage.

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Answer: Pendleton (Civil Service) Act

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