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What business leader was a powerful steel manufacturer?

Andrew Carnegie

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What is a monopoly?

A company that controls all of an industry

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Where did the Central Pacific Railroad start and end?

Started in Sacramento, CA and Ended in Promentary Point, UT (connected to Union Pacific RR)

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What is the difference between a "Captain of Industry" and a "Robber Baron?"

Captain of Industry contributed to the country while getting rich. Robber Baron took advantage of people.

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Time period after the Civil War when southern states were readmitted into the Union and ex-slaves were given civil rights

Reconstruction

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What was the name of Lincoln's reconstruction plan to bring the country together after the Civil War?

Ten Percent Plan

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What did the 15th Amendment do?

said states cannot deny a person the right to vote because of race

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What was the purpose of the Sherman Antitrust Act?

To stop the formation of trusts and monopolies

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Which region of the US was most affected by the Homestead Act?

Great Plains

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What was the agency set up to help former slaves adjust themselves to freedom?

Freedmen's Bureau

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What was the GRANDFATHER CLAUSE?

allowed people to vote if their father or grandfather had voted before Reconstruction

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How did the 'Robber Barons' get their bad name?

Gained huge profits by driving the competition out of business using unfair tactics.

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The system where landowners leased a few acres of land to farm workers in return for a portion of their crops

Sharecropping

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