Civil War
Reconstruction
Go West
The Gilded Age
Industrial Revolution
100
The 3 causes of the Civil War
What were Slavery, States Rights, and Sectionalism?
100
This amendment abolished slavery.
What was the 13th Amendment?
100
The Plains Indians survived on this
What were Buffalo?
100
He was known as a robber baron for the Railroads
Who was Cornelius Vanderbilt?
100
This man invented the filament for the light bulb, the phonograph record player, and the film projector. He owned thousands of patents for his inventions
Who was Thomas Edison?
200
This Northern bloody Battle was considered the turning point of the war
What was the battle at Gettysburg?
200
His plan was to go lenient on the South in order to keep the Union together.
What was Abraham Lincoln's 10% plan?
200
This was completed in 1869 and shortened the trip across the states from months to days, created a national market, and developed the cattle industry
What was the Transcontinental Railroad?
200
The Gilded Age was a term coined by this famous Author to describe how America appeared "shiny on the outside" but had many problems and poverty underneath
Who was Mark Twain?
200
This man owned standard oil
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
300
This proclamation in 1863 freed the slaves in the rebelling states, but not in the border states that joined the Union Efforts
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
They controlled Congress, wanted to abolish slavery, and started the Freedmen's Bureau.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
300
This started out as a social group for Farmers but turned into a powerful political lobbying group to protect farmers from railroad monopolies and aggressive banks
What was The Grangers?
300
Lassez-Faire is a French term used to describe Capitalist business practices in the 19th Century
What is "hands off"?
300
US Steel was started by this man
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
400
He was the President of the Confederacy.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
400
These laws were made from the slave codes that barred African Americans from voting, drinking alcohol, owning a gun, and loitering.
What were the black codes?
400
This was one of the first laws where the government stepped in to regulate the monopoly that railroads had on charging high prices or shipping goods and storing grain
What was the Interstate Commerce act?
400
This is when one company has sole ownership over a particular good, or service
What is a Monopoly?
400
The first industrial age started here with its textile mills and the invention of the steam engine
What is England? (Great Britain or the U.K. is also acceptable)
500
This battle gave control of the Mississippi River to the Union Army.
What was the Battle at Vicksburg?
500
This Supreme Court Case upheld the Doctrine of Separate but Equal and maintained Jim Crow Segregation Laws
What was Plessy vs. Ferguson?
500
This law took land from Indians and placed them on Reservations to assimilate them to the life of the American farmer
What was the Dawes Act?
500
This is when a company owns all parts of a business from creation to marketing and sales
Example: Standard oil owned the drills to get the oil, the storage and refineries, the trains to take it to market, and the gas stations
What is Vertical Integration?
500
He wrote the book "The Jungle" about the horrors of the meat packing industry
Who was Upton Sinclair?