APUSH Period 6: Gilded Age

Sand Creek, in present-day Colorado, United States, sits on the dry shortgrass plains that stretch east from the Rocky Mountains — exactly the interior grassland corridor the title clue pointed…

Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States, sits on the Potomac River along the mid-Atlantic seaboard — exactly the eastern lowland corridor between the Appalachian Mountains and the…

The Battle of Little Bighorn took place in 1876 along the Little Bighorn River in present-day Montana, in the northern Great Plains where the Rocky Mountains give way to vast grassland draining…

This event took place in Boston, Massachusetts, on the northeastern Atlantic seaboard of the United States — a city built on a peninsula jutting into a wide natural harbor where the Appalachian…

This event unfolded in Martinsburg, West Virginia — a town tucked into the Appalachian Mountains where the Potomac River valley channels movement between the interior and the Atlantic seaboard. In…

Washington, D.C. — the U.S. capital built along the Potomac River at the point where the Appalachian foothills flatten into the broad Atlantic coastal plain — was where the Supreme Court handed down…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the Potomac River along the Atlantic coastal plain, east of the Appalachian Mountains — exactly the eastern-seaboard setting the title clue…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the eastern seaboard of North America — on the Potomac River where the Appalachian foothills give way to the Atlantic coastal plain…

New York City sits at the mouth of the Hudson River where it empties into the Atlantic Ocean — the premier port of northeastern North America and the financial capital of the United States. On…

This event took place in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, situated on the Potomac River at the boundary between the mid-Atlantic states — exactly the coastal plain setting hinted…

This is New York City, where the Brooklyn Bridge crosses the East River to connect the island of Manhattan with the borough of Brooklyn — exactly where a sheltered harbor opens onto the northeastern…

This is Chicago, Illinois, in the United States — a city sitting on the southwestern edge of Lake Michigan, one of the five Great Lakes that stretch across the interior of North America. In 1886, a…

Columbus, Ohio sits in the heart of the American Midwest — a wide, flat plain west of the Appalachian Mountains and east of the Mississippi River, far from any coast. It was here, in 1886, that craft…

Skeleton Canyon sits in the rugged Peloncillo Mountains of southeastern Arizona — deep in the arid basin-and-range desert belt that runs south of the Rocky Mountains toward the Mexican border. In…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the eastern seaboard of North America, wedged between the Appalachian Mountains to the west and the Chesapeake Bay to the east — exactly…

This law was passed in Washington, D.C., the capital city sitting on the Potomac River between the Appalachian Mountains and the Chesapeake Bay on North America's Atlantic seaboard. In 1887, the U.S…

New York City, on the northeastern Atlantic seaboard of the United States, was where the North American Review published Andrew Carnegie's landmark essay 'Wealth' in 1889 — the piece later known as…

Hull House was founded in Chicago, Illinois — a city sitting on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan, one of the five Great Lakes that stretch across the interior of North America. In 1889, Jane…

Washington, D.C., the U.S. capital on the Potomac River — set between the Appalachian Mountains to the west and the Atlantic coast to the east — is where Congress signed the Sherman Antitrust Act…

This event took place in Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States, situated on the Potomac River between the Appalachian highlands to the west and the Chesapeake Bay to the east. In…

Standing Rock Indian Reservation sits on the wind-swept prairie of North and South Dakota, where the Missouri River cuts through the northern Great Plains east of the Rockies. In 1890, Hunkpapa…

The massacre took place at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota, a state sitting in the heart of the Great Plains east of the Rocky Mountains in the interior of North America — exactly the frozen, open…

New Orleans, Louisiana, sits where the Mississippi River fans out into its delta and drains into the Gulf of Mexico — a warm, low-lying port city barely above sea level and shaped entirely by that…

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States, sits at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers — exactly where those Appalachian-fed waterways meet to form the Ohio River, deep in the…

This violent confrontation took place in Homestead, Pennsylvania, USA — a steel-mill town sitting on the Monongahela River in the Appalachian foothills, roughly halfway up North America's eastern…

Memphis, Tennessee sits on the limestone bluffs above the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, roughly halfway between the Gulf of Mexico to the south and the confluence of the Ohio River to the…

Omaha, Nebraska sits on the western bank of the Missouri River, where the flat expanse of the Great Plains meets the first hints of America's interior highlands — well over a thousand miles from…

New York City, the financial capital of the United States on the northeastern Atlantic seaboard, was the epicenter of the Panic of 1893, one of the worst economic depressions in American history up…

This event unfolded in Chicago, Illinois, United States — a city sitting at the southern tip of Lake Michigan, the heart of North America's Great Lakes system and the continent's great interior rail…

This ruling was handed down in Washington, D.C., the capital city built on the Potomac River's tidal estuary along the eastern seaboard of the United States, wedged between the states of Maryland and…

In 1896, William McKinley ran his celebrated “front-porch campaign” from his home in Canton, Ohio — in the industrial Midwest south of the Great Lakes — receiving delegations of supporters at his…