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IndRevolution/TN During Reconstruction
End of Reconstruction
Gilded Age
Populist/Definitions
100
railroads unified the nation's clocks. This is also known as.....
Time Zones
100
Which amendment abolished slavery during the End of Reconstruction
What is the 13th amendment?
100
Rights to regulate the railroad industry to transport goods across state lines
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
100
administered to poor blacks in an attempt to keep them from voting
What is the Literacy Test?
200
Yellow fever began in which city
Where is New Orleans?
200
Which amendment stated that no citizen should be deprived of life, liberty or property?
What is the 14th amendment?
200
the stealing of liquor tax by government officials
What is the Whiskey Ring?
200
restricting African Americans' freedom, and of compelling them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt.
What are Black Codes?
300
Identify the insect that brought the yellow fever up the Mississippi River
What is the mosquito?
300
Responsible for leading a group of Southerners to Kansas for better job opportunities.
Who is Pap Singleton?
300
Those appointed to certain offices meet requirements for the position applied for
What is the Pendleton Act?
300
a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction
What is a Carpetbagger?
400
First African American member of the TN General Assembly is.....
Who is Sampson Keeble?
400
This person is responsible for leading a raid to free slaves during the Civil War
Who is Harriet Tubman?
400
Explain Political Machines.
What is a system set up to receive favors through members of the government (favors for jobs in return for voting)?
400
4.5 million silver bullion was purchased by the government, Why?
To bail out farmers who were struggling and in debt from high railroad prices
500
Two corporations were given permission to build a transcontinental railroad. This act is known as....
What is the Pacific Railway Act?
500
20 electoral votes were given to which person during the 1876 Presidential Election
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes
500
Legally profiting from the railroad industry is known as
What is Credit Mobilier?
500
Who delivered the Cross Gold Speech during the Democratic Convention and which year was it delivered?
Who is William Bryan Jennings and it was delivered in 1896?