Civil War
The battle at this fort in South Carolina begins the Civil War in 1861.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
This bureau provided educational, housing, and medical aid to newly freed slaves.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
The invention of this made the Pony Express obsolete.
What was the telegraph?
He started a monopoly over the American petroleum industry with the formation of the Standard Oil Company.
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
Giving Americans a greater say in government was a pillar of which movement?
What was the Progressive Movement?
This "proclaimed" that all slaves in areas of rebellion were now free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The change in leadership to this President, after the assassination of Lincoln, led to a leniency towards the south and the creation of the Black Codes.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
The collaboration of these two railroad companies led to the creation of the first transcontinental railroad.
Who were the Union Pacific and Central Pacific?
Andrew Carnegie utilized this tactic with the Carnegie Steel Company, in which he controlled every step of the manufacturing process.
What was vertical integration?
This was the term given to journalists that exposed the government and industry misdoings.
What is muckrakers?
This battle was the turning point of the Civil War. Over 50,000 soldiers died in 3 days. 28,000 of them being Confederate Soldiers, 1/3 of their army.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg/
This Act overturns the Dred Scott decision.
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
Trains traveled over large portions of the US and necessitated the invention of these to coordinate schedules.
What were time zones?
This Act stated that competition is necessary in free markets.
What was the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This amendment created the collection of income tax.
What was the 16th Amendment?
This amendment put a ban on slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
The Reconstruction Act of 1867 divided the southern states into 5 military districts so that the north could "police " the states as they ratified these.
What were new state constitutions?
This standard practice determined the amount of paper money available.
What was the gold standard?
This method is where workers act together to compromise with management.
What is collective bargaining?
This amendment granted women's suffrage?
What was the 19th Amendment?
The "Anaconda Plan" was used by the North during the Civil War and would "squeeze the Confederacy into submission by doing these two things, along with fighting.
What were creating a blockade with the Navy and limiting their finances by controling the banks?
This compromise in 1877 saw Rutherford B. Hays become the 19th President of the United States; in exchange for this.
What would be the north leaving the south and ending the Reconstruction Era?
This "Indian Territory" was opened to settlers in 1889.
What was Oklahoma?
The use of machinery within farm labor and the growth of factory work led to this idea of growth within cities.
What was urbanization?
They founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909
Who was W.E.B. Du Bois?