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Tennessee after Reconstruction
Industrial Revolution
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This was doctors' initial response when Yellow Fever hit Memphis
What is quarantine
100
This man invented the lightbulb
What is Thomas Edison
100
Critics of powerful business owners would refer to them as
What is robber barons
100
This man's novel, "The Jungle", led to the passage of the Food and Drug Act
Who is Upton Sinclair
100
This man was the dictator of Germany during WWII
What is Hitler
200
This was the main way yellow fever was spread
What is mosquitoes
200
These provided a faster, more practical mean of transporting goods
What are trains/railroads
200
The purpose of this was to promote fair trade by ending monopolies
What is Sherman Anti-Trust Act
200
This amendment created an income tax
What is the 16th
200
This event brought the US into WWII
What is Pearl Harbor
300
This man was the first African American state legislator from Tennessee
Who is Sampson Keeble
300
Without this, Americans wouldn't have been able to create skyscrapers or the Brooklyn bridge
What is Bessemer Process
300
This meant that the government would not interfere in businesses
What is laissez-faire
300
This man used political cartoons to bring down political machines
Who is Thomas Nast
300
This is the only US president to ever resign from office
What is Nixon
400
Due to Yellow Fever, this Tennessee city had 25,000 people leave and 7,000 die
What is Memphis
400
This invention in the 1800s would forever change how people communicated across long distances
What is telephone
400
This was how Andrew Carnegie gained a monopoly on the steel industry
What is he bought out all his competitors (horizontal consolidation)
400
This amendment granted women's suffrage
What is the 19th
400
This man drew political cartoons in the early 1900s (father of the American comic)
What is Thomas Nast
500
The outlaw of slavery in Tennessee was an outcome of this
What is Constitutional Convention of 1870
500
Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse experimented with this
What is electricity
500
A positive term for big business owners at this time
What is captains of industry
500
This amendment allowed for direct election of senators
What is 17th
500
These are the only 2 US presidents who were ever impeached
What is Johnson and Clinton