This was a paralyzing economic crash caused my promoters doing more than markets could handle and banks loaning too much and not being repaid.
What is the Panic of 1873?
100
This group savagely kept blacks as second class citizens and terrorized them.
Who are the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
100
Congress commissioned this company to build a railroad heading west from Omaha, NE.
What is Union Pacific?
100
This shot the consumption of tobacco skyward in the 1880s, providing the South with a welcome boost in agriculture.
What is the machine-rolled cigarette?
100
The Home Insurance Building, 10 stories tall and built in Chicago in 1884, was the first one of these.
What is a skyscraper?
200
This man used fraudulent elections, graft, and bribery to get $200 million from New York City before being arrested and dying in prison.
Who is "Boss" Tweed?
200
This system, also called crop lien, extended credit for food and supplies to tenant farmers (mainly blacks) and took that out of their harvest. It was manipulated to keep them in debt that they would have to work off so they had to stay and work.
What is sharecropping?
200
This act was a major step toward ending greed and corruption of railroad owners.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
200
This is what people who moved to the new southern mill towns were called.
What are "hillbillies" or "lintheads"?
200
With disposable things and no barn to throw things into to feed the pigs, this problem loomed.
What is waste disposal?
300
These people robbed the U.S. Treasury of millions in excise taxes.
What is the Whiskey Ring?
300
This is what happened to blacks who dared to violate the South's racial codes and/or assert equality.
What is lynching?
300
The unification of these two railroads near Salt Lake was the first successful transcontinental railroad.
What are Union Pacific and Central Pacific.
300
This was the main attraction of the South for potential investors.
What is cheap labor?
300
Many of the refugees from Europe settled here.
What is New York?
400
Insiders of the Union Pacific Railroad company formed this company and cleverly hired themselves at higher prices to build railroad lines.
These were state level legal codes of segregation against the blacks, including voting restrictions such as a literacy requirement and a poll tax.
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
400
Steel lords in Pittsburgh put pressure on compliant railroads, charging a fictional fee on steel from Birmingham, as if it had been shipped from Pittsburgh, in a pricing system that was called this.
What is "Pittsburgh plus"?
400
Urbanization attracted many people from these parts of Europe.
What is eastern and southern Europe?
500
These two cornered the gold market and made the price of gold skyrocket.
Who are Jim Fisk and Jay Gould?
500
This case allowed "separate but equal" facilities for blacks and whites in the South. (The reality, of course, was separate and VERY unequal.)
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
500
This group worked through two railroad companies and gained millions in profits, keeping their hands clean by not bribing government officials.
What are the Big Four?
500
Trinity college in Durham, NC, was renamed this by trustees who were grateful after this person, who took advantage of the production of the machine-made cigarette, donated generously.
What is Duke University?
500
As immigrants clustered together in areas of cities, Americans wondered if they were even capable of doing this.