Definition
In May 1856, as part of a protest of Kansas allowing slavery, he led an attack that killed 5 supporters of slavery, this attack was part of the massacre named “Bleeding Kansas.”
John Brown
Transcontinental
Going across a continent
President of the Confederate States, indicted for treason and lost his citizenship
Fort Sumter
On April 12, 1861, the South attacked a Union fort in South Carolina named Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, the fort ended up being surrendered by the Union forces. Was the first battle in the Civil War.
Tent-like homes that could be moved easily that were used by nomadic people. Made of tanned buffalo skin and coils be put up in less than an hour
Tepees
A stockholders share of a company's profits, usually given in cash payment.
Dividend
Secede
to officially leave an organization
a shop or factory where workers work long hours at low wages under unhealthy conditions
Sweat Shop
National Grange
a network of local farmers groups
Car created & designed by Henry Ford. It was affordable, durable, and easy to repair
Model-T
Where the civil war ended in Virginia is
Appomattox Court House
John D Rockefeller
helped build an oil refinery and organized the standard Oil Company of Ohio. Merged competing oil companies into 1 to form a monopoly
A trip of several hundred miles on which ranchers led their cattle to railroads and distant markets
Long Drives
Greenbacks
Paper money issued by the US government
Putting to death by the illegal action of a mob
Lynching
A system of farming in which a farmer works land for an owner who provides equipment and seeds and receives a share of the crop
Sharecropping
Grandfather Clause
allows people to vote if their fathers or grandfathers had voted before reconstruction began
Northern whites who supported the republicans plan to rebuild the south
Carpetbaggers
Strikebreaker
A person hired to replace a striking worker in order to break up a strike
A discount or return of part of a payment. Discounts cause more people to pay for you product or services
Rebate
invented the phonograph, the motion picture projector, the storage battery, and the light bulb
Thomas Edison
Boomtown
Lawless mining towns that were quickly built along mining sites. Once ore was gone, everyone left and it became a ghost town
The process of buying the entire supply chain that a company uses in order to have full control over the products manufacturing.
Vertical Integration
Andrew Carnigie
He dominated the steel industry and lowered the price of producing and buying steel
A business strategy where a company acquires/merges with another company to allow the company to dominate the market and all the goods.
Horizontal Integration