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2. Topic 1: 100
This person found sticky blue-gray mud (pure silver ore) and staked a claim on six mile canyon, Nevada. Called the Comstock Strike.

3. A: Topic 1: 100
Henry Comstock

4. Topic 1: 200
This type of mining uses simple equipment like picks, shovels, and pans

5. A: Topic 1: 200
Placer mining

6. Topic 1: 300
This type of mining required larger, heavier tools that dug beneath the surface….

7. A: Topic 1: 300
Quartz mining

8. Topic 1: 400
This term was used to describe a town that goes up quickly and turns into a ghost town after the miners leave to find silver and gold elsewhere.

9. A: : 400
Boom to bust town

10. Q: 500
Self appointed and volunteers law enforcement officers who patrolled towns in an effort to fight crime were called _________ committees

11. A: : 500
Vigilance Committees

12. Topic 2: 100
A vast area of government owned grassland that covered much of the great plains and ranchers could graze their cattle for free was called_____________.

13. A: Topic 2: 100
Open Range

14. Topic 2: 200
This act allowed a person to claim up to 160 acres of land for a $10 registration fee.

15. A: Topic 2: 200
Homestead Act

16. Topic 2: 300
A preference for native born people and to limit immigration is called__________

17. A: Topic 2: 300
nativism

18. Topic 2: 400
To be absorbed into a community or American society is called _________ (Hint: Native Americans)

19. A: Topic 2: 400
Assimilate

20. Topic 2: 500
Name the person who invented the telephone and the person who perfected the light bulb.

21. A: Topic 2: 500 Telephone = Alexander Graham Bell
Light Bulb = Thomas Alva Edison

22. Topic 3: 100
This act provided the funding for the expansion of the railroad after the civil war (Over 200,000 miles of track)

23. A: Topic 3: 100
Pacific Railway Act

24. Topic 3: 200
People who “Loot and industry and give nothing back” are called___________

25. A: Topic 3: 200
Robber Barons

26. Topic 3: 300
An organization owned by many people but treated by law as if it is owned by a single person and spreads out the responsibility is called a ____________

27. A: Topic 3: 300
corporation

28. Topic 3: 400
When a company owns ALL the different businesses it depends on for operation is called:

29. A: Topic 3: 400
Vertical Integration

30. Topic 3: 500
The idea of combining many different companies engaged in the same type of business into one large corporation is called:

31. A: Topic 3: 500
Horizontal Integration

32. Topic 4: 100
The term that companies should only hire “Union” members is called:

33. A: Topic 4: 100
Closed Shop

34. Topic 4: 200
This person founded the American Federation of Labor Union and fought for the CBA or Collective Bargaining Agreement.

35. A: Topic 4: 200
Samuel Gompers

36. Topic 4: 300 Two part questions: Sink or swim 2 people
1. Immigrants from Europe that had money and developed skills were called:
2. Where did immigrants from Europe arrive in America for Customs clearance?

37. A: Topic 4: 300
Old Immigrants – Ellis Island

38. Topic 4: 400
This act banned Chinese immigrants from entering the U.S. for 10 years.

39. A: Topic 4: 400
Chinese Exclusion Act

40. Topic 4: 500
Tall “Steel” framed building that began to pop up in cities all across the country to accommodate large numbers of people were called:

41. A: Topic 4: 500
Skyscrapers

42. Topic 5: 100
Dark, crowded, multi-family residences in N.Y. city were called:

43. A: Topic 5: 100
Tenements

44. Topic 5: 200 Twp part questions / Sink 2 or Swim 2
1. Name the person who went around N.Y. city taking pictures to expose how the “poor” were living.
2. Name the book he released with all the pictures / selling over 28 million copies

45. A: Topic 5: 200
Jacob Riis
How the Other Half Lives

46. Topic 5: 300
Considered one of the most corrupt politicians that ran the “Tammany Hall” political machine

47. A: Topic 5: 300
William “Boss” Tweed

48. Topic 5: 400
Mark Twain coined this term about something covered in gold on the outside but made of cheaper material on the inside is called:

49. A: Topic 5: 400
Gilded
Also called the Gilded Age

50. Topic 5: 500
This Supreme Court case ruled “As long as facilities are equal, they can be separate” –

51. A: Topic 5: 500
Plessey v. Ferguson