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  • Who created the American Federation of Labor to get better wages and working conditions?
    Samuel Gompers
  • Why is Andrew Jackson's presidency often referred to as the "Era of the Common Man?"
    Promoted/expanded suffrage to all white men
  • Where and how did John D. Rockefeller make his riches?
    He created a monopoly in the oil industry.
  • Who built the Transcontinental Railroad?
    Immigrants from China and Ireland
  • What provided a moral reason for fighting the Civil War?
    Emancipation Proclamation
  • What was the name of our first Constitution and why did it fail?
    Articles of Confederation / It was too weak
  • What specific form of transportation made it easier to travel and trade to the west, changed businesses, and took land from Native Americans?
    Transcontinental Railroad
  • What term describes that the Supreme Court decides what is constitutional or not?
    judicial review
  • The Supreme Court case that determined judicial review belongs to the judicial branch
    Marbury v. Madison
  • What Scottish immigrant made his money from steel?
    Andrew Carnegie
  • Why did Thomas Jefferson hesitate to buy the Louisiana Purchase from Napoleon?
    He wasn't sure if making the purchase was constitutional.
  • There were 11 free and 11 slave states. This Compromise added one free and one slave state. The 36'30' line would determine future states.
    Missouri Compromise
  • What was the difference between Presidential and Congressional Reconstruction?
    Presidential: Wanted to be lenient to the south Congressional: Wanted to punish the south; harsh restrictions
  • An area of shacks that resulted from the Great Depression and President Hoover's inaction.
    Hoovervilles
  • A time during the Great Depression, mostly in the middle of the U.S., that experienced drought and the land dried up and the wind created dust storms.
    The Dust Bowl
  • Who invented the light bulb, phonograph, and motion pictures? How did it change American life?
    Thomas Edison / People were able to work longer hours; new form of entertainment
  • What Supreme Court case ruled that black people could not sue because they were not citizens?
    Dred Scot v. Sanford
  • How did Parliament respond to the Boston Tea Party?
    They created the Coercive (Intolerable) Acts
  • Where did General Lee surrender? Who won the Civil War?
    Appomattox Courthouse / the North
  • What land did the British gain after the French and Indian War?
    They gained land east of the Mississippi River.
  • What was the negative affect of the French and Indian War?
    They needed large amounts of money to pay for the war / raised taxes for the colonists
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