You will be traded to Lakewood Ranch if you do not know the answer to these quesitons correctly.
This person wrote, "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Abolitionist who was hanged for his part in a raid on Harpers Ferry.
John Brown
He invented the air brake making travel on trains much safer.
George Westinghouse
What Supreme Court ruling was overturned the 14th Amendment?
The Dred Scott Decision
What ended the long drive?
Barbed Wire
Andrew Carnegie used this new invention to mass produce steel.
The Bessemer Process
General Winfield Scott submitted a plan to Abraham Lincoln for the North to defeat the South by surrounding the South and cutting of all supplies, imports and exports. This plan was called
The Anaconda Plan
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
What are the two main problems with a monopoly?
1. Control prices of a product.
2. Lower quality of a product.
How did the Southern elite keep the newly freed African Americans in a state slavery, even after the 13th Amendment was passed.
Sharecropping and Debt Peonage
America's first monopoly was _________________.
The Standard Oil Company.
The 13th Amendment was passed during the Reconstruction Era. African Americans were given suffrage with the
15th Amendment
Who was the founder of the American Socialist Party?
Eugene Debs
He founded the American Federation of Labor.
Samuel Gompers
WHAT DID THE FOLLOWING HAVE IN COMMON?
William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech.
The Populists Party. (People's Party)
The Sherman Silver Purchase Act
BIMETALLISM
Settlers given 160 acres in the Western territories if they would live on it for five years and farm it.
The Homestead Act
As a result of the decision, "Wabash v. Illinois" by the Supreme Court, Congress passed the
Interstate Commerce Act
Wrote, "A century of Dishonor"
Helen Hunt Jackson
What is the differences between a, "Closed Shop" and a "Lockout"?
A closed shop can only hire union workers. In a lockout, management closes the factory so that the workers cannot work
What gave federal loans and land grants to railroad companies to complete the Transcontinental Railroad?
The Pacific Railway Act
The government was was suppose to interfere in the free market as little as possible. This is known as
Laissez-faire
A court order to end a strike.
What event caused the collapse of the Knights of Labor?
The Haymarket Riot
What ended the Reconstruction Era?
The Compromise of 1877
What was one demand made in the Populist Party platform of 1892?
Free unlimited coinage of silver
Direct election of Senators
Secret Ballot
Graduated Income Tax