Period 6 Test Review People And Cases

Question 1

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Answer 1

Best known for his business tactics and created a transportation empire (RAILROAD)

Question 2

J P Morgan

Answer 2

Combined 8 large steel companies into the first billion dollar enterprise (BANKING)

Question 3

John D. Rockefeller

Answer 3

Dominated the Oil Industry with horizontal expansion and established a vertically interigated monopoly (OIL)

Question 4

Andrew Carnegie

Answer 4

Established s steel company that used vertical interigation (producing and shipping product w/o a middle man) (STEEL)

Question 5

William Jennings Bryan

Answer 5

• Won the democratic nomination after speech about farmers pride and grievances
• called for “free coinage” of silver
• “cross of gold” speech

Question 6

SC Justice John Marshall Harlan

Answer 6

Justice of the Supreme Court

Question 7

Plessy v Ferguson

Answer 7

Rulled the legality of Jim Crow laws and “separate but equal”

Question 8

Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862

Answer 8

Gave land to colleges that teach agriculture and manufacturing

Question 9

Dawes Severalty Act

Answer 9

Was an. Effort to assimilate NA into American culture (NA gave up culture to become farmers)

Question 10

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 10

Legalized racial segregation in the south post Civil War

Question 11

Pacific Railway Act of 1862

Answer 11

Law the promoted the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad in the US with bonds and grants of land to railroad companies

Question 12

Homestead Act of 1862

Answer 12

Granted 160 acres of land to anyone who lived and cultivated the land for 5 years

Question 13

Sherman Antitrust Act

Answer 13

Antitrust law that rules free competition among those engaged in commerce