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  • Which business leader contributed most to the early development of transportation in the US?
    Cornelius Vanderbilt
  • What were former slaves called?
    Freedmen
  • What did the 14th Amendment do?
    Guaranteed equal protection under the law & said all persons born in the U.S. are citizens
  • Bringing together people of different races/ethnic groups
    Integration
  • What was the name of Lincoln's reconstruction plan to bring the country together after the Civil War?
    Ten Percent Plan
  • Give an example of a Pull Factor. Explain.
    Examples will vary. Draws or attracts people to another location.
  • A share of ownership in a corporation is called ...
    Stock
  • A group of corporations run by a single board of directors is called a ...
    Trust
  • 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.
  • The system where landowners leased a few acres of land to farm workers in return for a portion of their crops
    Sharecropping
  • The process of developing machine production of goods is called...
    Industrialization
  • What do we call the railway extending from coast to coast?
    Transcontinental Railroad
  • What did the 13th Amendment do?
    Abolish slavery
  • What is an assembly line?
    In a factory, a product is moved along from worker to worker, each person performing a single specialized task.
  • What was the agency set up to help former slaves adjust themselves to freedom?
    Freedmen's Bureau
  • Profits paid to stockholders in a corporation are called ....
    Dividends
  • How did the 'Robber Barons' get their bad name?
    Gained huge profits by driving the competition out of business using unfair tactics.
  • What does SEGREGATION mean?
    Separating people based on race.
  • Time period after the Civil War when southern states were readmitted into the Union and ex-slaves were given civil rights
    Reconstruction
  • Laws in the south that legalized segregation
    Jim Crow Laws
  • Name one monopoly and the industry leader who controlled it.
    Answers will vary.
  • What was the GRANDFATHER CLAUSE?
    allowed people to vote if their father or grandfather had voted before Reconstruction
  • What did the 15th Amendment do?
    said states cannot deny a person the right to vote because of race
  • Which region of the US was most affected by the Homestead Act?
    Great Plains
  • This man created a monopoly in oil refineries
    John D. Rockefeller
  • Southern laws designed to limit the rights of blacks
    Black Codes
  • Where did the Central Pacific Railroad start and end?
    Started in Sacramento, CA and Ended in Promentary Point, UT (connected to Union Pacific RR)
  • What was the purpose of the Sherman Antitrust Act?
    To stop the formation of trusts and monopolies
  • Explain how an Assembly Line works.
    In a factory, a product is moved from worker to worker. Each worker performs a single specific task.
  • What was the Supreme Court case that made it legal to have "separate but equal" facilities?
    Plessy vs. Ferguson
  • What is a monopoly?
    A company that controls all of an industry
  • What business leader was a powerful steel manufacturer?
    Andrew Carnegie
  • Give an example of a Push Factor. Explain.
    Examples will vary. Causes people to leave their homeland and migrate to another region.
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