Reconstruction
This was the time period after the Civil War focused on rebuilding.
What is Reconstruction?
In 1860 the U.S. had about 30,000 miles of this. By 1900, the nation had nearly 193,000 miles of this
What is railroad track?
He was a Scottish immigrant who owned 1/3 of steel production in the US and was the creator of the Gospel of Wealth
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
These laws were passed by southern state governments to restrict the citizenship rights of African Americans.
What are the Black Codes/ Jim Crow LAws?
This metal allowed the building of stronger bridges, skyscrapers and railroad track
What is steel?
He is known as America's greatest banker and is the inspiration for the Monopoly man
Who is JP Morgan?
This amendment abolished slavery
What is the 13th amendment?
This is when a person has control over an entire industry. Hint: it is also a board game that people cheat in
What is a monopoly?
He is the creator of the Standard Oil company and is the richest man in American history
Who is John Rockefeller?
This amendment granted citizenship to everyone born in the US, regardless of their former condition of servitude
What is the 14th amendment?
He made his fortune in the shipping business before selling his business and investing it all in the railroad business
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
This type of business model is when a person or company owns every step in the production and sale process, like a step ladder
What is vertical integration?
This amendment granted African American men the right to vote
What is the 15th amendment?
This process allowed steel to be mass produced. Molten iron had air blown through it which burned off carbon impurities in the metal.
What is the Bessemer Process?
This guy electrocuted an elephant to demonstrate the dangers of AC current. Inventor of the lightbulb
Who is Thomas Edison?
One method that Southern states used to prevent African American men from voting.
Answers: Poll tax, literacy test, grandfather clause
Type of building typically found near factories to house immigrant workers.
Tenements
This governmental agency was created to help newly freed African Americans and poor whites recover at the end of the Civil War
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This movement saw the mass migration of people from southern states to western states, such as Kansas, seeking independence.
Exodusters
Government policy that practiced "hands-off" of regulating private businesses and companies.
Lassaiz-faire
This riot in Chicago was a result of workers' grievances and aggressive unionization.
Haymarket Riot
This Act (law) required settlers to improve their land and live on it for five years in order to own the property
Homestead Act
This supreme court decision created the principle of separate but equal when an African American man attempted to ride a whites only car in Louisiana
What is Plessy v Ferguson
This is the phenomenon of city growth at a rapid scale.
What is Urbanization?