Industrialization
Monopolist that controlled the oil industry
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
Most European immigrants passed through this
What was Ellis Island?
The cowboys’ gun of choice
What is a colt 45?
the belief that government should not interfere much in the economy
What is Laissez-Faire?
First State to secede from the Union
Who was South Carolina?
Monopolist that controlled the banking industry
Who was JP Morgan?
law barred Chinese immigration for 10 years and prevented the Chinese already in the country from becoming citizens.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Vanderbilt net worth when he died
What is $100 million?
Legal arrangement that allows one person to manage another person’s property.
What is a Trust?
won the election of 1860
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Came up with a cheaper and faster way to produce steel
Who was Henry Bessemer?
Leader of Tammany Hall, the most infamous political machine in the late 19th century
Who was William "Boss" Tweed?
To conquer the wilderness and unite East and West, President Lincoln greenlights a
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
a group of companies under a single board of directors
What is a Trust?
law allowed a slaveholder or slave catcher to point out alleged runaways to have them taken into custody.
What was The Fugitive Slave Act?
Founder of the AFL
Who was Samuel Gompers?
A term applied to the era in American history that began about 1870 and ended around 1900.
What was The Gilded Age?
13 times more powerful than gunpowder.
What is nitroglycerin?
A tax system in which the rate of taxation increases as income increases.
What is a Graduated Income?
Supposed to Kill Andrew Johnson, became drunk and abandoned Booth’s order
Who was George Atzerodt?
Railroad built by James J. Hill without any federal land grants or subsidies.
What was the Great Northern Railroad?
published Dynamic Sociology, in which he argued that humans were different from animals because they had the ability to make plans to produce the future outcomes they desired.
Who was Lester Frank Ward?
Rockefellers first business
What is selling candy?
The use of political power for personal gain, often through bribery or corruption.
What is Graft?
Date Lincoln was assassinated
When was April 14, 1865?