Reconstruction Era
What group of people did the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments aid?
African American Males
Who was elected president in 1868?
Ulysses S. Grant
What company built the transcontinental railroad?
The Union Pacific Railroad Company
What immigrants came during the industrial revolution?
The old immigrants
What is the name of the group that was formed by disgruntled white Southerners who were angered by the success of black legislators.
The Ku Klux Klan
Who was President after Abraham Lincoln?
Andrew Johnson
What party is known as the People's Party?
The Populist Party
What was the term "Iron Horse," used to refer to?
The steam locomotive
Did the black workers form a labor union?
Yes, it was called the Colored National Labor Union
What was the name of President Abraham Lincoln's plan for reconstruction in the South.
The 10% reconstruction plan
Who were the Carpetbaggers?
They were Northerners who went South during the reconstruction era to attain a profit.
What kind of people were part of the Populist Party?
Farmers in the agricultural belts of the West and South
What famous american business man made a fortune from improving Eastern railroad conditions, and was a major part of the railroad industry?
Cornelius Vanderbilt
What did the inventions such as the typewriter and telephone switchboard do for women in Industrial America?
What term is used to describe the process of plantation owners renting out pieces of their land to blacks and made the cost of rent higher than the return the land produced.
Sharecropping
What did the Freedman's Bureau do?
The Freedman's Bureau (created by Congress in 1865) provided food, clothing, medical care, and education to freed slaves and white refugees after the Civil War.
What was the scandal that took place in 1872 when Union Pacific Railroad workers from a construction company and then hired themselves at inflated prices to build the railroad line, earnings a lot of money.
The Credit Mobilier Scandal
What did the Sherman Anti-trust of 1890 do?
It forbade business activities that the government deemed as anti-competitive and it required the government to investigate trusts.
What labor union was led by Samuel Gompers?
The American Federation of Labor
What state was purchased in 1867 through a treaty singed by William Seward?
Alaska
What marked the end of the reconstruction era?
The Compromise of 1877
What act put an end to the dreaded Spoils System?
The Pendleton Act
What literary work Andrew Carnegie, the "sultan of steel," refer to justify his extensive wealth?
The Gospel of Wealth
What was the protest where someone threw a dynamite bomb, killing several people, and the Chicago police got involved in called?
The Haymarket Square riot
Who created the Standard Oil Company of Ohio in 1870, attempting to eliminate the middleman and challenge his competitors?
John D. Rockefeller