(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
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Boarding schools → Schools that took Native children from their families to teach them white culture
Rural-to-urban migration → Movement of people from farms to cities for industrial jobs
James A. Garfield’s assassination → led to civil service reform after a president was shot
Push and pull factors → Reasons that drove people from their homelands and attracted them to America
Assimilation process Ways “new” immigrants adapted (or were pressured to adapt) to American culture
•Madam C.J. Walker → African American entrepreneur who built a successful hair-care business
Pendleton Act → Law that created a merit-based system for federal jobs
Settlement of the West → Mass movement of people into western lands after the Civil War
Nikola Tesla → Inventor known for work with alternating current electricity
Interstate Commerce Act → First federal law to regulate railroad rates and practices
Jim Crow laws → State laws that enforced racial segregation in the South
Assimilation → Effort to make American Indians adopt white American culture and ways
Homestead Act → Law that gave 160 acres of free land to settlers who improved it
Ellis Island → East Coast immigration station that processed European immigrants
Disenfranchisement methods → Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses that blocked Black voting
Thomas Nast → Cartoonist whose drawings helped expose Boss Tweed’s corruption
Plessy v. Ferguson → Supreme Court decision that upheld “separate but equal” segregation
•Exodusters → African Americans who migrated from the South to Kansas after Reconstruction
Boss Tweed → Corrupt leader of New York City’s Tammany Hall political machine
•Andrew Carnegie → Steel industry leader who practiced vertical integration
•Ethnic clusters → Neighborhoods where immigrants from the same country lived together
John D. Rockefeller → Oil industry tycoon who built Standard Oil
Chinese Exclusion Act → Law that banned most Chinese immigration
Farmers vs. industrial capitalists' conflict between rural producers and big-business owners