Key Terms
Famous People
Important Acts
Railroads
Disassembly line
100
The Friday following Thanksgiving Day.
What is black friday
100
United States writer of novels based on experiences in the Klondike gold rush.
What is jack London
100
Strengthened the Interstate Commerce Commission of 1887
What is elkins act
100
Political opponents and commentators have vilified land grants made to railroads.
What is railroad land grants
100
An outlying farm
What is grange
200
Was an American politician most famous for his leadership of Tammany Hall
What is tweed ring
200
28th President of the United States
What is woodrow wilson
200
Gave the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) the power to set maximum railroad rates
What is hepburn act
200
The largest and oldest operating railroad network in the United States.
What is Union pacific railroad
200
Was the first United States Supreme Court interpretation of the relatively new Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
What is Slaughterhouse cases
300
A scandal, exposed in 1875,
What is whiskey ring
300
A writer who described Creole life in Louisiana
What is kate chopin
300
Requires USDA to inspect all cattle, sheep, goats, and horses when slaughtered and processed into products for human consumption.
What is Meat inspection act
300
The former name of the railroad network built between California and Utah.
What is central pacific railroad
300
The United States Supreme Court case dealing with corporate rates and agriculture
What is munn v. illinois ?
400
Republican political activists who supported Democratic candidate.
What is mugwumps
400
A painter best known for his seascapes
What is winslow homer
400
An act of Congress requiring the U.S. Treasury to buy a certain amount of silver and put it into circulation as silver dollars.
What is Bland -allison act
400
Began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, United States and ended some 45 days later after it was put down by local and state militias.
What is Great railroad strike
400
A Supreme Court decision that severely limited the rights of states to control interstate commerce.
What is wabash case
500
Beginning again
What is resumption
500
A economist who wrote about conspicuous consumption. 
What is thorstein veblen
500
Known colloquially as greenbacks in gold beginning in 1899. 
What is resumption act
500
Proprietorships holding companies trusts and pools
What is trust pools and rebates
500
An industrial process for making steel
What is bessemer process