Reconstruction
System of farming that forced many into a virtual new type of slavery
Sharecropping
Founded Standard Oil
John D Rockefeller
What state was opened up to a land rush for Americans willing to farm the land ?
Oklahoma
What was Seward's Folly?
The purchase of Alaska
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J P Morgan
ended slavery in the US
13 th Ammendment
Where was the first public electric lighting display held?
Chicago Exposition
Where the two railroads finally met .
Promontory Point ,Utah
Type of journalism only concerned with sensational news and creating sales for papers
Yellow journalism
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Wounded Knee
This election was decided by a combination of the House, Senate and Supreme Court .
What was it and who became president?
Compromise of 1877
Rutherfurd B Hayes
Which President served two non- consecutive terms ?
Grover Cleveland
Which company was in charge of building the railroad from the east?
Union Pacific
Second president to be assassinated
James Garfield
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Ellis Island
Scandal during Grant's campaign that involved the transcontinental railway
Credit Mobilier
This act made monopolization of companies illegal
Sherman antitrust act of 1890
Name of the battle where the 7th calvary and Custer were killed and defeated
Battle of Little Bighorn
Scottish immigrant who made his fortune in steel
Andrew Carnegie
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carpet bagger
The name of the corrupt group that ran New York City
Tammany Hall
Strike in Pittsburgh that lasted 5 months . It was a strike against lower wages and ultimately failed.
Homestead Strike
Name the treaty with Japan that opened up trade with that country and the US
Treaty of Kanagawa
Date of the explosion of the Maine
February 15, 1898
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Thomas Edison