Reconstruction
What was the primary purpose of the Reconstruction period following the Civil War?
To rebuild the southern economy and society
Which economic venture would lead to the explosive development of towns almost overnight and quickly see them turn into ghost towns?
Mining
What was the primary cause that helped bring about the 2nd Industrial Revolution?
Electrification
Standard Oil, having grown by purchasing its competitors is an example of what?
Monopoly
This U.S. President issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Abraham Lincoln
This Amendment ended slavery
13th Amendment
The ideas that God and history had selected America to expand its boundaries over the continent of North America was known as
Manifest Destiny
What new type of business organization permitted a small group of capitalists to control the stock of a large number of individual corporations without actually becoming one company? The term later came to refer generally to any huge economic concentration.
Trust
Sharecropping
This animal is known as the only mammal capable of true flight
Bat
If you were called a Scalawag, then what are you?
If you were a southerner that supported the Republican party during Reconstruction which nickname would your Democratic neighbors refer to you as?
The decline of "open range" ranching in the West resulted primarily from
Intense competition for use of the land and the creation of barbed wire.
As a result of the American population tripling between 1860 - 1910, which of following happened?
America industrialized quickly because of the large workforce
Who owned and created Standard Oil?
John D. Rockefeller
This U.S. state is the only one that grows coffee commercially.
Hawaii
What was set up to provide former slaves with food, clothing, and education
Freedmen’s Bureau?
What did the Homestead Act provide?
A head of household to live on 160 acres of western land. If they farmed it and improved it over time they can own it.
What impact did the transcontinental railroad and its various spurs have on industrialization in America?
Increased markets for goods and shipping prices dropped
Laissez-faire
This scientist is known for developing the first practical telephone.
Alexander Graham Bel
How might an advocate for women's rights react to the 15th amendment as described below?
They wouldn't like it
The Amendment fails to ban gender discrimination
Never saw them as a sovereign unit, broke treaties whenever they wanted too, and force Natives onto reservations
Describes the effectiveness of labor unions in the 1880s and 1890s.
They were able to recruit large numbers of people
What did Alfred Mahan believe
That America’s greatness was based on its ability to control the seas.
This author wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy
J.R.R. Tolkien