The 3 causes of the Civil War
What were Slavery, States Rights, and Sectionalism?
This amendment abolished slavery.
What was the 13th Amendment?
The Plains Indians survived on this
What were Buffalo?
He was known as a robber baron for the Railroads
Who was Cornelius Vanderbilt?
This man invented the filament for the light bulb, the phonograph record player, and the film projector. He owned thousands of patents for his inventions
Who was Thomas Edison?
This Northern bloody Battle was considered the turning point of the war
What was the battle at Gettysburg?
His plan was to go lenient on the South in order to keep the Union together.
What was Abraham Lincoln's 10% plan?
This was completed in 1869 and shortened the trip across the states from months to days, created a national market, and developed the cattle industry
What was the Transcontinental Railroad?
The Gilded Age was a term coined by this famous Author to describe how America appeared "shiny on the outside" but had many problems and poverty underneath
Who was Mark Twain?
This man owned standard oil
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
This proclamation in 1863 freed the slaves in the rebelling states, but not in the border states that joined the Union Efforts
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
They controlled Congress, wanted to abolish slavery, and started the Freedmen's Bureau.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
This started out as a social group for Farmers but turned into a powerful political lobbying group to protect farmers from railroad monopolies and aggressive banks
What was The Grangers?
Lassez-Faire is a French term used to describe Capitalist business practices in the 19th Century
What is "hands off"?
US Steel was started by this man
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
He was the President of the Confederacy.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
These laws were made from the slave codes that barred African Americans from voting, drinking alcohol, owning a gun, and loitering.
What were the black codes?
This was one of the first laws where the government stepped in to regulate the monopoly that railroads had on charging high prices or shipping goods and storing grain
What was the Interstate Commerce act?
This is when one company has sole ownership over a particular good, or service
What is a Monopoly?
The first industrial age started here with its textile mills and the invention of the steam engine
What is England? (Great Britain or the U.K. is also acceptable)
This battle gave control of the Mississippi River to the Union Army.
What was the Battle at Vicksburg?
This Supreme Court Case upheld the Doctrine of Separate but Equal and maintained Jim Crow Segregation Laws
What was Plessy vs. Ferguson?
This law took land from Indians and placed them on Reservations to assimilate them to the life of the American farmer
What was the Dawes Act?
This is when a company owns all parts of a business from creation to marketing and sales
Example: Standard oil owned the drills to get the oil, the storage and refineries, the trains to take it to market, and the gas stations
What is Vertical Integration?
He wrote the book "The Jungle" about the horrors of the meat packing industry
Who was Upton Sinclair?