Whats the Plan Stan?
Which two plans were the easiest on the South?
Abe Lincoln and Andrew Johnson
What was the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War called?
Reconstruction
Who were the African Americans who joined the military out west and helped put Native Americans on Reservations?
Buffalo Soldiers
What was the name given to the industrialists that brought harm to the country?
Robber Barons
What amendment ended slavery?
13th amendment
Which plan wanted to pass the 14th and 15th amendments?
Radical Republican plan
What organization was created to help feed, cloth and provide education to the poor whites and recently freed slaves in the South?
Freedmens Bureau
Who drove Cattle from Texas to states like Kansas and Missouri where they could earn ten times the amount they could in Texas?
Cowboys
When an company owns all manufacturing of an entire industry what have they created?
Monopoly
When people made money illegally through their political positions, what was that called?
Graft
Which plan wanted to place the military in the South under the Military Reconstruction Act?
Radical Republicans
What legislation was intended to keep African Americans in the south in a situation close to slavery?
Black Codes
What were the 3 main minerals found in the Mountain States of the Mid West?
Gold, Silver and Copper
What is the name of a company who does not create anything, but controls the stock in other companies.
Holding Company
What ended Reconstruction with the Compromise of 1877?
Federal troops removed from the South
Which plan sought to punish the wealthy planter elite for starting the war, even though he pardoned most?
Andrew Johnson
What political Party was the KKK trying to bring back to power in the South?
What crop was as important to the Great Plains as Cotton was to the South?
Wheat
When a company can own a part or parts of a process in making a good to lower their costs to get rid of competition only to raise their prices after, how are they creating a monopoly?
Vertical Integration
What amendment granted citizenship to all of those born in America? It was meant to get rid of the Dred Scott Decision that said African Americans could not be citizens.
14th amendment
Whose plan is characterized by the quote "With Malice Towards none, with Charity for all"
Abe Lincoln
What did the Democrats get from the compromise of 1877?
The military removed from the South
What were the 2 largest groups of immigrants that worked the Transcontinental Railroad
Irish and Chinese
Name the Industries that the following 4 dominated
1. John D Rockefeller
2. Andrew Carnegie
3. Cornelius Vanderbilt
4. J.P. Morgan
1. Oil
2. Steel
3. Steamships and Railroads
4. Investment Banking/Finance
Who won the Presidency in the election of 1876 and ended Reconstruction shortly after?
Rutherford B Hayes - Republican
Whose plan was also called the Wade-Davis Bill?
Radical Republicans
Why was it important for the Republicans to have a 2/3 majority in Congress in the 1866 elections?
They would be able to override all the vetoes Andrew Johnson was passing over Republican legislation.
Where did the Transcontinental Railroad connect in Utah?
Promontory Point
What were the 4 causes of Industrialization?
1. Natural Resources
2. Large Workforce
3. Free Enterprise/Laissez Faire Government policies
4. New Inventions
Name 3 groups of people who voted Republican in the South during Reconstruction
1. Carpetbaggers - Northerners who went south to take advantage of area
2. Scalawags - poor southerners
3. African Americans
Which plan tried to stop funding of the Freedmens Bureau?
What was the type of farming in the South typically done by poor whites and recently freed slaves in which they had to pay a portion of their crops to pay off their loans owed to the owner of the land?
Sharecropping
List 5 problems with the Great Plains?
1. Lack of Rain and water
2. Strong Winds
3. Grasshoppers/Lotus
4. Prarie Grass Fires
5. Blizzards in Winter
6. High Heat during Summer
7. Lack of trees other than by rivers and streams
What was the name of the incident in which Carnegie hired Pinkerton agents to fire at his striking workers?
Homestead Strike
What were the two companies that built the Transcontinental Railroad?
Union Pacific and Central Pacific