Westward Expansion
African American slaves who went to Kansas to claim new land after fleeing the South
Exoduster
Trade unions used this strategy to fight businesses for fair wages and safer working conditions
Strikes
Southerners who cooperated with the North
Scalawags
Primary economic industry of the South during the Civil War?
Cotton
Secede means to
Withdrawal from someplace or someone
Bought the Louisiana Purchase
Thomas Jefferson
Barbed Wire
First time an injunction was ever used to break up a strike?
The Pullman Strike
Laws enacted by southern states to keep free blacks segregated?
The Jim Crow Laws
Infection, disease, gunshot wounds
Two causes of death during the Civil War
1st Industrial Revolution occurred here?
Great Britain
Lightbult/Phonograph
Thomas Alva Edison
Legislation passed by Abraham Lincoln that gave away free land in the West
Homestead Act of 1862
Known as the "Commodore" and his railroad expansions and being a millionaire
Cornelius Vanderbuilt
Southern states passed laws that restricted the freedoms of former slaves
Black Codes
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
With the invention of the light bulb, this happened to factories?
Could be built anywhere
Did not have to be built near sources of energy
Could work all day and all night and even during the winter months
Airplane
Wright Brothers
Believe that Americans had a natural-born right to expand and travel West - From the Atlantic to the Pacific
Manifest Destiny
These immigrants were Catholic and/or Jewish, illiterate and poor
New Immigrants
14th Amendment
Elected president in 1860
Abraham Lincoln
In the 2nd Industrial Revolution, the United States became what?
the leader in Industrial Power in the world.
Typewriter
Christopher Sholes
Reservations
Year the total immigration from Europe reached its highest?
1905
President Lincoln proposed this bill before his assassination for the Reconstruction of America
The Ten Percent Plan
2 Major Areas in which the Northern States differed from the Southern States
1. North relied on manufacturing
2. South relied on agriculture (plantations)
Alfred Nobel
Dynamite
Interpreter for the for Louis and Clark Expedition
Sacagawea
Who was the explorer who discovered the Cumberland Gap?
Daniel Boone
This was a cause for the Gilded Age
Rapid economic growth
Mass production
This is where the farmer would have to borrow money in order to start his crops but then at harvest time, give back the money to his borrower.
Sharecropping
Main reason for the Civil War
slavery
Term used during this age for oil
Black Gold
He was a botanist, chemist, inventor by using peanuts
George Washington Carver