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What is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
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What is the telegraph?
E. B. Morse invented this
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What is the Whig party?
Everyone in this party hated Andrew Jackson
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What is the Missouri Compromise?
Missouri added to south while Mane was added to North 36, 30
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What is Black Codes
rules designed to tie freed blacks to their owners
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What is Carnegie?
Owner of steel company
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What is the Cumberland Road?
Ran the distance from Western Maryland to Illinois.
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What is the KKK?
Terrorist group to bring back white power in the South
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What is Florida Purchase Treaty?
Coded Florida and claims to Oregon in exchange for Texas with the Mexicans.
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What is a nativist?
Did not like immigrants. Examples: Know Nothing Party andthe Old Star Spangled Banner.
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What is John Deere?
Invented the steel plow
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What is the Eerie Canal?
Connected the Great Lakes to the Hudson River
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What is the Free Soil party?
Party in support of the Wilmot Proviso. Was Antislavery. Candidate was Martin Van Buron. Foreshadowed the republican party.
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What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
stated 50% of voters would take oath to the Union and safeguards for the freed blacks would be put in place.
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What is the Spoil System?
Put supporters of the President in office.
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What is John D. Rockefeller?
President of Standard Oil Company
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What is the steamboat?
invented in 1860. Could travel both ways on rivers and streams.
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What is sharecroppers?
Blacks who worked on farms but were not slaves were called this.
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What is the Free port Doctrine?
Stephan Douglas is cornered by Lincoln in debates and says popular sovereignty can keep slavery out.
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What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
Runaway slaves were to be returned to the state or territory from which they had escaped.
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What is Stephan Douglas?
Father of Popular Sovereignty
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What is the telephone?
Alexander Bell invented this
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What isa Union?
Workers who got together to strike out against business owners.
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What is the Sherman's Anti-Trust Act?
Congress used this to make Unions illegal.
Forbid: Pools, interlocking directorates, holding comapnies |
What is vertical/horizontal integration?
buying out businesses involved with your product/ expanding your company.
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