Reconstruction
White Supremacist terrorist organization that tried to intimidate African Americans in the 19th and 20th century
What is the ku Klux Klan
This railroad connected the east to the west
The Union Pacific Transcontinental railroad
Oil tycoon from Ohio, now has a plaza named after him in NYC
John D Rockefeller
Common entry point for immigrants arriving on the east coast
What is Ellis Island
This animal was nearly hunted to extinction during Westward expansion
WHat is the Buffalo
The two factions of the Republican party who were split over how to approach reconstruction
Radicals and Moderates
Process for creating steel popularized in the industrial revolution
Bessemer process
The process of buying out your competition to own every company in your industry
Horizontal integration
Regions of the world the "new immigrants" came from
East Asia, and Southern and Eastern Europe
Conflict with these people often came up during westward expansion
Who are the Native Americans
First president to be the subject of an impeachment
Who is Andrew Johnson
Inventor of the Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
The process of buying out every company in the supply chain for the production of your product
What is vertical integration
Point of entry for many on the West Coast
What is angel island
Someone you would hire to move cattle to the railyards
What is a cowboy
The Nickname given to Lincoln's relatively unpopular reconstruction plan
What is the 10% plan
First Major sewing machine company in the USA
Singer
Wealthy New York Banker who created one of the largest Banks in US history
JP Morgan
Law passed by congress that banned Chinese immigrants from becoming US citizens
Chinese Exclusion act
Movement of small farmers to try and pass legislation that resisted large farm monopolies
Grange Movement
Election that ultimately resulted in the end of Reconstruction
What is the election of 1876
The two types of current that were proposed for conducting electricity in houses and cities
AC/DC
Government policy of staying "Hands off" in economic affairs
what is laissez faire
Areas where members of a common ethnic group settle down together and celebrate their old culture in America
Ethnic Enclaves
Act of Congress that gave out plots of land in the west to those willing to work the land
What is the Homestead act of 1862