Unit 1
president of the union
Abraham Lincoln
Buffalo
What industry did Carnegie make his money from?
Railroads
Bans alcohol
Prohibition/18th amendment
abolished slavery
13th amendment
the breaking point for southern states?
Election of Abraham Lincoln (1860)
Broke up reservations and gave land to individual natives/families for farming
Dawes Act
Connected the east and west coast, increased travel, created timezones
Railroads
Journalist who exposes corruption
Muckraker
What industry did JP Morgan get his money from?
Banking
organization that used violence and intimidation against African Americans
KKK
Gave 160 acres to western settlers to build and improve
Homestead Act
Term for company that buys out its suppliers?
Vertical Integration
Giving jobs to friends/people who are not qualified
Patronage
Purpose of labor unions
To protect workers (better conditions, wages)
Primary job for freedmen after the Civil War
Sharecropping
Barbed wire, steel plow, Irrigation
Term for a company that merges with competitors?
Horizontal Integration
Organization that uses corrupt means to control a political party
Plan to blockade ports and block the south's access to resources
Anaconda plan
African Americans mostly supported this party during Reconstruction
Republican
Granger Laws
What industry did Rockefeller obtain his money from?
Oil
Law passed to end patronage
Pendleton Civil Service Acts
Prohibitionist known for using a hatchet to destroy saloons
Carrie Nation
things done to circumvent the 15th amendment? (3)
poll tax, literacy test and grandfather clauses
this group largely supported Populism
Farmers
What industry did Flagler obtain his money from?
Florida Hotels and railroads
allows for the Direct Election of Senators
17th amendment
Knowledge of the terrain, motivated soldiers, generals are advantages of this group