Civil War
The amendment that ended slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
Laws created to segregate the south.
A business practice of controlling an entire industry.
What is a monopoly?
The system suggested by Populists to switch the US from the Gold Standard to a currency backed by gold and silver.
What is bimetallism?
The North's Plan to surrond the South, cut them off from trade, and slowly win the war.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Who is Andrew Johnson?
The economic policy of the US government to have little involvement in the US economy.
What is laissez-faire policy?
Known for giving the famous "Cross of Gold" speech at the Democratic National Convention.
Who is Williams Jennings Bryan?
The amendment that guratneed all men regardless of race the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Northerners who came to the South to try and take advantage of the economic opportunity of the struggling region
Who are Carpetbaggers?
Favored by Captains of Industry like Andrew Carnegie, this business model involved buying companies at all levels of production to monopolize an industry.
What is vertical integration?
The name of the movement designed to help farmers fight for fair business practices.
What is the Granger Movement?
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The plan to reshape the image of the South from an agrarian to industrial society.
What is The New South?
What is the telephone?
Allowed for quick transportation of goods, and people to settle the west.
What are the Transcontinental Railways?
These two territories were given the option to vote on whether to be free or slave states, resulting in violent mobs.
What are Kansas and Nebraska?
The system of "legal" slavery created after the Civil War, that had former slaves working on farms with little pay or opportunity to leave.
What is Sharecropping/Debt Peonage?
This labor movement event led to US President Grover Cleveland to send in federal troops to end a strike.
What is the Pullman Strike?
This act of Congress forced Native Americans to assimilate to US culture and strip Natives of the communal lifetstyle.
What is the Dawes Act?