Slavery
What is the Underground Railroad?
What is the Confederacy/Confederate States of America
This man perfected and made the Light Bulb Commercially Viable to sell.
Who is Thomas Edison?
Chinese Immigrants passed through this Check in Station in San Francisco
These politicians ran the Political Machines in Cities
What is a City Boss?
The Missouri Compromise did what to Slavery north of the 36°30'boundary line.
What is Prohibit/Forbid/Ban?
While the North had a variety of Industries, the South was this kind of Economy,
What is a Plantation Economy
The Government's Response to growing Corporate power was the passing of this act?
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This was a preference towards Native-born Americans over Immigrants
What is Nativism?
The illegal use of political influence for political gain
What is Graft?
This state fell in the middle of the Missouri Compromise boundary line and outlawed slavery, upsetting many Southerners
What is California?
This was the primary reason for the Civil War
What is the Preservation of the Union
This process removed carbon and other trace elements from Iron to create Steel.
What is the Bessemer Process?
These communities, helped immigrants maintain their cultural identity and allowed them to speak their home language while pooling resources to build religious institutions.
What is an Ethnic Community?
This group of people supported the use of the Patronage (Spoils) system and didn't want to see any changes to it.
What are the Stalwarts?
This book written in 1852, by Harriet Beecher Stowe highlighted the atrocities of Slavery and helped stir Northern outrage towards Slavery
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This event led to the South seceding and forming the Confederacy.
The Election of Abraham Lincoln
A water bottling company purchasing land that contains a lake, as well as a plastic bottle recycling plant is an example of what?
What is Vertical Integration?
Mexican fled their Homeland at the beginning of the 20th century for what reason?
What is escaping Political Violence?
This man led a corrupt ring and defrauded the city of New York with various schemes in the mid 19th century.
Who is William Tweed?
This radical abolitionist led an unsuccessful violent revolt to free the slaves in Harper's Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
This Formal Amendment freed the Slaves.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This man was a self-made billionaire who worked his way up a Railroad Company eventually accumulated enough stock and wealth to purchase a Steel Company.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
The Chinese came to the Western U.S. to pursue what?
What is the California Gold Rush?
Hiring a buddy for a federal job who canvassed for you in an election is known as what?
What is Patronage/Spoils System