Progressive era

What were most important for the success of the railroads? Choose TWO

• Immigrant labor

• Peace treaties with Indians

• Government land grants

• Lumber and steel supplied by Europe

​ (a)   immigrants received much less pay than Irish and Germans for construction of the railroads.

• Chinese
• Indian
• African
• South American

Railroads connecting the east to the west was viewed as the completion of​ (a)   .

• Manifest Destiny
• American Imperialism
• Mercantilism
• Triangular Trade

Which TWO would have had the greatest impact on the Plains Indians?

• Harsh desert climates

• Western population growth

• Farming and ranching

• Territorial disputes among tribes

Which was most likely a consequence of gold being found in the Black Hills Indian territory?

• Indians were forced on reservations for land

• Indians became much wealthier

• American settlers reached peace with Indians

What was a strategy of the U.S. government to defeat the Sioux Indians?

• Seek help from Mexico

• Bribe them with gold

• Eliminate the buffalo

• Destroy land with wildfires

The _______era marked a time of social and political reform in the early 20th century.

Match the following

• belief nature should be protected

• labor laws

• political/social reformers

• women's suffrage

• right to vote

• progressives

• journalists exposing corruption

• conservation movement

• protected children

• muckrakers

Match the following

• petition to add a law

• referendum

• direct election of Senators

• initiative

• petition to overturn a law

• recall

• remove public official

• 17th amendment

Match the following

• legalized segregation

• NAACP

• rode on a

  "whites only" train car

• Jim Crow

• segregation laws

• Homer Plessy

• pushed for equal rights

• Plessy v Ferguson