American Cultures So Far...

Act that gave settlers 160 acres of land to farm for five years

• Dawes Act
• Homestead Act
• Sherman Act
• Sedition Act

Land set aside for just Native Americans

• Reservation
• Commune
• Nomadic
• Preservation

Defeated at the Battle of Little Bighorn

• Sitting Bull
• Crazy Horse
• George Custer
• William Sherman

The Gilded Age saw the greatest shift in population from which area to which area?

• Rural areas to Urban areas

• Urban areas to Rural areas

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What Supreme Court case set the precedent for "Separate but Equal", which would last until the Civil Rights Movement of the mid 1900s?

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Brown v Board of Education

• Marbury v Madison

• Roe v Wade

During the late 19th century, most immigrants to the US found work as-

• Educated professionals
• skilled workers
• Factory/sweatshop workers
• Scientists

________________ is the term used to describe the wealthy that used ruthless business practices. 

• Industrial Giants
• Captains of Industry
• Robber Barons
• Union Leaders

Cornelius Vanderbilt made his fortune in...

• flight
• oil
• railroads
• automobiles

He invented the light bulb and helped "electrify America."

• Alexander Graham Bell

• George Westinghouse

• Cyrus McCormick

• Thomas Edison

Andrew Carnegie's idea that the wealthy had a moral obligation to improve society for everyone.

• Gospel of Wealth

• Social Darwinism

• American Dream

• Principles of Scientific Management