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Question 1

When a plantation owner allows someone to “rent” the land in exchange for a share of the crop.

Answer 1

Sharecropping

Question 2

When someone pays back a debt by working for the loaner

Answer 2

debt servitude/Peonage

Question 3

when people in jail were “leased out” from jail places to do free labor.

Answer 3

Convict leasing

Question 4

Laws that made it a crime to be poor, idle, dissolute, immoral, drunk, lewd, or suspicious

Answer 4

Vagrancy Laws

Question 5

Laws passed throughout the South to restrict the rights of emancipated blacks, particularly with respect to negotiating labor contracts. Increased Northerners’ criticisms of President Andrew Johnson’s lenient Reconstruction policies.

Answer 5

Black codes

Question 6

Created to aid newly emancipated slaves by providing food, clothing, medical care, education, and legal support. Its achievements were uneven and depended largely on the quality of local administrators.

Answer 6

Freedmen’s bureau

Question 7

The railroad connecting the Atlantic and Pacific coasts

Answer 7

Transcontinental Railroad

Question 8

law in which the federal government distributed millions of acres of western lands to the state governments in order to fund state agricultural colleges.

Answer 8

Morrill Land-grant Acts, 1862

Question 9

provided Federal subsidies in land and loans for the construction of a transcontinental railroad across the United States.

Answer 9

Pacific Railway Act, 1862

Question 10

Towns that rapidly expanded

Answer 10

Boom Towns

Question 11

Slang term for US paper dollars

Answer 11

Greenbacks

Question 12

provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land.

Answer 12

Homestead Act 1862

Question 13

allowed steel to be produced without fuel, using the impurities of the iron to create the necessary heat.

Answer 13

Bessemer Converter

Question 14

used to print characters on a piece of paper by depressing keys.

Answer 14

Typewriter

Question 15

An invention used to light homes

Answer 15

Light bulb

Question 16

An invention used to play sounds by a stylus and a disk

Answer 16

phonograph

Question 17

An invention that sped up the textile industry by a lot

Answer 17

sewing machine

Question 18

Used for long distance communication by voice

Answer 18

Telephone

Question 19

A vehicle that runs on tracks laid on the street

Answer 19

Street Car

Question 20

Tall buildings that were made because of the invention of stronger steel

Answer 20

Skyscraper (steel frame)

Question 21

Invention used to keeep cattle in

Answer 21

Barbed wire

Question 22

Madison vetos bill. Believed that the Constitution did not grant to the National Government the power to finance directly the construction of roads and canals.

Answer 22

Madison’s Veto of the Bonus Bill, 1817

Question 23

Key players in the rise of big businesses and monopolies

Answer 23

Captains of Industry

Question 24

Term used during gilded age to describe successful industrialists whose business practices were often considered ruthless or unethical.

Answer 24

Robber Barons

Question 25

The process of increasing market shares or expanding by integrating at the same level of the supply chain within the same industry

Answer 25

Horizontal integration

Question 26

When a company takes control of more parts of a supply chain, resulting in it covering more parts of it.

Answer 26

Vertical integration

Question 27

formed when individual stockholders of companies gave up their stocks to it. It would then control multiple companies via stock ownership to gain advantages in the market.

Answer 27

trust

Question 28

The exclusive possession or control of the supply of or trade in a commodity or service.

Answer 28

Monopoly

Question 29

The person who founded the Standard Oil Company in 1870

Answer 29

John D Rockefeller

Question 30

The Scottish American industrialist who led the expansion of the steel industry in the late 19th century.

Answer 30

Andrew Carnegie

Question 31

The person who built his wealth on railroads and shipping.

Answer 31

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Question 32

A company whose shares you can buy.

Answer 32

Publicly traded Companies

Question 33

Founded the Bank Monopoly

Answer 33

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