Chapter 1
Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
Who is Abraham Lincoln
Name 4 natural resources found out west
What are Gold, Silver, Oil, Iron, Timber, Coal, Copper and Water
Who invented the carbon filaments in the light bulb
Who is Lewis Latimer
Single bloodiest battle of the Civil War
What is the Battle of Antietam
Law that gave 160 acres of land out west to anyone who made improvements for 5 years
What is the Homestead Act
The process of buying out your competition to form a monopoly is called?
What is Horizontal Integration
Supreme court case that determined slaves cannot sue for freedom
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford
Ritual performed by the Lakotas to repel whites out of the west
What is Ghost Dance
Costs a company has to pay whether or not is it operating
What is Fixed costs
Allowing people in a territory to decide if territory should have slavery or not
What is Popular Sovereignty
Government grant allowed for creation of Historically Black Colleges and Universities
What is the Morill Land Grant Act
Economic policy of letting the economy run itself ad the government has no involvement
What is Lassiez- Faire
Name the Reconstruction amendments (Hint: ended slavery, citizenship, vote)
What are 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments
Massacre of George Custers men- all 250 men died at the hands of Native Americans
What is the Battle of Little Big Horn
Labor Union strike led by Eugene V. Debs, where over 300,000 workers walked off the job
What is the Pullman strike