the system of labor that brought people to colonies overseas in exchange for around 6 years of servitude.
What is Indentured Servitude
100
What revitalized the importance of slavery?
What is cotton gin
100
What were the laws passed in the south that severely limited african american's economic opportunities?
What is Jim Crow Laws
100
Who invented the light bulb?
What is Thomas Edison
100
What was Theodore roosevelt's most important economic proposal?
What is the Square deal
200
What was America's first cash crop?
What is tobacco
200
What was the labor system that employed young women in mills the 1820s and 1830s?
What is The Lowell system
200
What spurred the rapid industrialization seen in the North?
What is The Civil War
200
What is the name of economic control of every aspect of production
What is vertical alignment
200
Who developed the atomic bomb?
Who is Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard
300
What was the economic policy that the British imposed on
The American Colonies?
What is mercantilism
300
Who was the Whig devoted to promoting speedy modernization in the 1850s
Who is Horus Mann
300
Was was the system that replaced slavery in the south after The Civil War?
What is Sharecropping
300
What was the name of complete economic control of an entire industry?
What is horizontal alignment
300
What was the act that was passed that allowed weapons "lending" to “the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States?”
What is the Lend-Lease Act
400
What was the main factor that led to the change from indentured servants to slavery?
What is life expectancy.
400
What was the main system of production in which merchants supplied rural producers with materials?
What is The Putting out System
400
Name two new modes of transportation?
What are canals, railroads and steamboats
400
What were the aims of most of the labor movements during this period?
What are fair working conditions, workplace regulations, child labor laws and limited working hours.
400
Who invented the factory with the first continuous conveyor belt?
Who is Henry Ford
500
What was the purpose of the tea act?
What is bailing out The East India Company
500
What country did America start trading with after the Treaty of Paris in 1783
What is China
500
What was the south's plan to win over Britain during the civil war?
What is trade with cotton.
500
Name the 3 most important work related strikes during this period.
What is the Great Railroad Strike, Pulman Strike and Homestead strike
500
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust act?
What was an act that was supposed to target companies that were trying to monopolize.