Most popular form of business organization. Simplest to own, all profits and losses are yours.
What is sole propriotorship
100
This man was a white Abolitionist who raided an arsenal at Harper's Ferry in order to start a slave revolt
Who is John Brown?
100
Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee in April of 1861
What is South?
100
Northerners (white and black) who arrived n the South after the end of the Civil War in order to seek fame, fortune, and political gain.
What were carpeybaggers?
100
This Proclamation in 1862, declared that slaves in the states at war against the Union, not the border states were free...
What is the Emancipation Proclamation???
200
An increase in the value of goods and a decrease in the value of money
What is inflation?
200
This war, in 1846-48, enabled the U.S. to acquire the current states of California, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona, PLus parts of Kansas, and Utah
What is the Mexican-American War?
200
This section of the U.S. had a bigger population, was heavily industrialized, better educated, with a railway system, a banking system and had a large immigrant group
What is the North??
200
Scot-Irish term for weak, underfed animal, worthless animal.
Nickname given to Southerners who sympathized with the North
What are scalawags?
200
The law in 1865 outlaws slavery
What is The 13th Amendment??
300
Gross Salary (Wages) minus Fed. Tax-Social Security-Medicare=?????
What is is Net Income or Disposable Income???
300
This Supreme Court ruling in 1857 established the legal premise that slaves were never intended to be citizens. Therefore, slaves could not sue anyone
What is Dred Scott versus Sanford??
300
This section of the U.S was less educated, had less population, less educated people, almost no banking, and its economy was based in agriculture
What is the South??
300
This Act, passed in 1867, divided the South into five military districts in order to ensure the efficient process of rebuilding the South
What is the Reconstruction Act?
300
This law (1868) provides citizenship to former slaves
What is the 14th Amendment??
400
A business organization that is authorized by law to carry on an activity but treated as though it were a single person
What is a corporation??
400
This author, a white Abolitionist, brought humanity to the plight of slaves with her famous novel. She lived in Ohio and met many runaway slaves, also Southern slave holders.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe??
400
The battle is a Union victory (1862). It has the distinction of being the bloodiest one-day battle in U.S. History. Gen. Lee is forced to retreat to Virginia
What is the battle of Antietam?
400
This group of former Confederate officers outlaws from Pulaski, Tenneessee, were known to terrorize former slaves and carpetbaggers in order to drive them out of the South
What is the Ku Klux Klan???
400
This law prohibits the establishment of an official government religion; and the right to assemble
What is the First Amendment?
500
If the supply of a good is low and the demand is high, then prices go _____
If the supply of a good is high and the demand is low, then the prices go___
What is up? what is down??
500
Former slave who escaped in 1849. She went back to the South 19 times to guide enslaved people to freedom along the Underground railroad. She had a bounty of $40K for her capture
What was Harriet Tubman???
500
This important battle by chance, grew into the most important battle of the war lasting several days. Included Gen. Pickett's Charge (8,000 Confederate casualties). A Southern disaster.
What is the battle of Gettysburg???
500
The first two words for this illegal organization during Reconstruction derives from the Greek word for circle and the Scottish-Gaelic word for family
What is the Ku Klux Klan???
500
This law protects the right to vote by former slaves but not women