Unit 1: Civil War
He was the president during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This type of test was given to African Americans before they could vote:
What is a Literacy Test?
This group moved west with the promise of land to grow crops using new mechanized plows and living in sod homes:
Who are the farmers?
This inventor and his team of researchers in New Jersey created the first practical light build:
Who is Thomas Edison?
How are labor unions described as being successful
What is uniting laborers, farmers, everyone to become powerful and successful?
This document freed the slaves.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This was a term given to a person from a northern state who traveled to the South after the Civil War to profit from Reconstruction:
What is Carpetbagger?
Settlements that sprang up or grew rapidly often because of mining discoveries:
What are boomtowns?
In this structure, a company has complete control over the production of a good or service and dominates the industry:
What is a monopoly?
Why did strikes break out in Pullman, Illinois:
What is wages lowered and rent plus food stayed the same; after rent was taken from their checks, men were being paid a few cents?
“How to readmit the South”,
“How to help freedmen”, and
“Who should have the power to rebuild the Union” reflects this idea:
What are issues of Reconstruction?
This compromise ended the Reconstruction Era
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This act opened settlement in the western united States, allowing any American, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 acres of federal land:
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
This industrialist founded the Standard Oil Company and turned to philanthropy in his old age:
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Explain the Gilded Age:
What is the idea that the U.S. was the land of opportunity but underneath it was full of corruption and poor conditions?
What was the strategy used in the Anaconda plan?
What was surrounding the South and strangling it?
This a government decision to allow a person to be absolved of guilt for an alleged crime which President Johnson used on many Southern leaders after the Civil War:
What is a Pardon (Amnesty)?
Carlisle Boarding schools, The Dawes Act and the near eradication of buffalo from the American west all contributed to an effort of this on Native Americans:
What is cultural genocide or assimilation?
For these four men, are they Robber Barons or Captains of Industry:
1. John D. Rockefeller
2. Cornelius Vanderbilt
3. Andrew Carnegie
4. J Pierpont Morgan
1. Robber Baron
2. Robber Baron
3. Captain of Industry
4. Captain of Industry
Please see below, how is this a problem or solution for farmers and explain why:
Production Produce Price
Corn: High Corn: Low
Wheat: High Wheat: Low
Cotton: High Cotton: Low
What is a problem because as more is produced the price sold is decreasing (overproduction)?
This major issue increased tension between the Union and Confederacy before the Civil War started after 1803:
What was the expansion of slavery into new territories?
This government agency helped build schools and churches for African Americans after the Civil War:
What is the Freedman’s Bureau?
This Lakota Chief led the forces against General Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn, five years later he would surrender asking it to be remembered that “I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.” He was later killed by a Lakota Sheriff when performing a Ghost Dance:
Who was Sitting Bull?
This is what influenced the growth of the Second Industrial Revolution:
What are the railroads which caused growth in cities, production, and the first true national market?
Why was having a bimetallic standard helpful to farmers:
What is- putting more money in circulation by adding silver along with the gold backing money