The forced separation of whites and African Americans in public places.
What is Segregation
100
The exclusive rights to make or sell inventions.
What is a patent
100
Suffrage
What is the right to vote
100
Transcontinental Railroad
Was the railroad that crossed the continent East to the West making trade and communication easier and more efficient.
100
Why was the first civil rights act so significant?
1. First definition of citizenship
2.All Americans get full citizenship without regard to race, religion or color.
200
Briefly, after the Civil War which political party dominated politics?
What is the Republican Party
200
What new energy source did Americans begin to use in this era?
oil
200
A decrease in the money supply and overall prices
What is deflation
200
What newer piece of technology allowed Americans to civilize the West?
What is the railroad
200
What did the 13th and 15th Amendments do?
13-Banned Slavery
15-Gave African American Men Suffrage/Voting rights
300
What was one method to keep African Americans from voting in the South?
Poll Tax
300
What did Andrew Carnegie do that allowed cities to grow?
Made cheap steel
300
The process used by a legislative body to bring charges of wrong doing against a public official.
What is Impeachment
300
Why were people willing to drive cattle all the way to Kansas?
Big MONEY
300
What two things let to the end of Reconstruction?
1. Economic Crash of 1873
2. Close election of 1876 where a deal was made to end Reconstruction in favor of a Republican candidate for president.
400
Who took over as president when Lincoln died?
Johnson
400
What were factory conditions like around this time?
Dangerous
400
Total ownership of a product or service.
What is a Monopoly
400
What did the West sell to the East
and
What did the East sell to the West
West-Raw Material
East-Manufactured Goods.
400
What were the three negative long term effects of Reconstruction?
1. The South is segregated
2. Racial Discrimination is legal in the South.
3. The problems won’t start to get resolved until the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
500
After Plessey v. Ferguson what did the government allow?
the legal segregation of the races. (Separate but equal)
500
Which industry drew people out west?
Mining
500
A grouping together of companies under a single board of directors.
What is a Trust
500
What did Ford do to change transportation in America?
Used the assembly line to make cars that most Americans could afford.
500
Which president was captured by the British as a boy?