economic environment in which transactions between private parties are free from tariffs, government subsidies, and enforced monopolies, with only enough government regulations sufficient to protect property rights against theft and aggression.
What is Laissez-Faire
100
My core purpose was to threaten the Confederate States back into the Union, through the freeing of all slaves in those states
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
The term “populist” means people, so in reality these farmers were forming a new people's party
What is the Populist Party
100
United States federal law that was designed to regulate
What is The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
100
I was called the "Steel King,"
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
200
An economic system whereas a land owner "leases" property to a farmer in return for a share of proceeds from his crops, typically 1/3
What is Sharecropping?
200
Union and Confederate armies clashed near Manassas Junction, Virginia, in the first major land battle of the American Civil War. It was also the first major confederate victory.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run?
200
Way for farmers to get credit before the planting season by borrowing against the value for anticipated harvests.
What is the Crop-lien System?
200
term tha became synonymous with an era of great wealth and prosperity but also of political and business corruption.
What is Gilded Age
200
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
300
called for farmers to be permitted to store their crops in government warehouses in exchange for loans. This proposal had the added benefit of allowing prices to go up as demand for crops increased.
What is the Ocala Demands?
300
The Confederacy lost its last chance to control the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
300
Plow. Grain drill, Bailing Press etc…
What are Technological advances
300
type of business organization in which a single company owns and controls the entire process from the unearthing of the raw materials, to the manufacturing and sale of the finished product.
What is Vertical Intergration
300
entered the oil refining business in the 1860's and soon became one of the nation's industrial giants. His Standard Oil Company bought out competitors or drove them out of business.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
400
Gave 160 acres of land free to any head of a family who promised to cultivate the land for five years
What is Homestead Act?
400
Custer and all the men with him were killed
What is the Battle of the Little Bighorn?
400
refers to large corporations that control major industries
What is Big Business
400
This was the first major victory for the confederacy
What was the First Battle of Bull Run?
500
was first created as a social organization composed of local farmers' clubs
What is The Patrons of Husbandry, or National Grange?
500
specified that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters (from the voter rolls for the election of 1860) swore an oath of allegiance to the Union
What is Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan?
500
Designed to free up western land for white settlers and railroad companies by breaking up traditional Native American tribal lands.
What is the Dawes Severalty Act?
500
This theory, based on the ideas of biologist Charles Darwin, said that "natural selection" enabled the best-suited people to survive and succeed
What is Social Darwisim?
500
The belief that wealthy people should give back and help improve society by using philanthropy (donating money) to build schools, libraries, and parks