Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Vocabulary
100
Name one weakness of the north.
What is they were unfamiliar with the land?
100
Describe the 14th Amendment.
What is: the 14th Amendment made African Americans citizens?
100
Define open range.
What is land that was not fenced in or divide into lots?
100
Name the company run by Rockefeller.
What is Standard Oil Company of Ohio?
100
Define draft.
What is a system of selecting people for required military service?
200
Name one strength of the north.
What is they had a larger population with more resources?
200
Describe the 15th Amendment.
What is: granted African Americans the right to vote?
200
Define rustlers.
What are people who stole cattle?
200
Name the company Carnegie created.
What is the Carnegie Steel Company?
200
Define shareholders.
What is people who buy stock?
300
Name one weakness of the south.
What is they lacked support of the president and had a smaller population with fewer resources?
300
Define a poll tax.
What is a fee people had to pay to vote?
300
Define a boom town.
What is a town rich in ore with many people searching for treasures?
300
This is the method used by Rockefeller to grow his business.
What is horizontal integration?
300
Define black codes.
What are laws passed to control freed men and women?
400
Name one strength of the south.
What is they had good military leaders?
400
Define a literacy test.
What is a requirement that voters must be able to read and write at a certain level?
400
Define a ghost town.
What is a town with no ore left and isolated?
400
This method was used by Carnegie to grow his business.
What is vertical integration?
400
Define scalawags.
What are former Confederates who supported Republican Reconstruction?
500
Name the four border states.
What are Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, and Delaware?
500
Describe the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
What is gave citizenship to African Americans and allowed the federal government to get involved in state affairs to protect the rights of African Americans?
500
These two railroads met at Promontory Summit, Utah.
What are Central Pacific and Union Pacific?
500
Air brakes made trains __________.
What is safer for passengers?
500
Define monopoly.
What is total control of an industry by one person/company?