quiz 2 Flashcards
Jay Gould and James Fisk planned to corner what market?
gold market
Name the scandal/railroad construction company that involved congressmen taking bribes in exchange for favorable legislation
credit mobilier
Name the scandal involving U.S. Treasury officials and liquor distillers who planned to steal millions in liquor taxes.
whiskey ring
To which state did most blacks migrate following the war?
Kansas
What were blacks who went to Kansas called?
Exodusters
Name the supreme court case tat ruled against segregation did not discriminate as long as accommodations for both races were equal?
Plessy vs Ferguson
Walter Prescott Webb defined the frontier by what ratio?
land, man ratio
What institute did Booker T. Washington found in Alabama in 1881?
Tuskegee Institute
What activist made lynching her issue?
Ida B Wells
People who went west after the Civil War were called what?
Overlanders
Name the act that gave 160 acres of land to someone who lived on it for five years and built 12x14 foot house on it.
Homestead Act
Name the railroad that ran from Omaha, Nebraska to Sacramento, California
transcontinental railroad
At what place in Utah did the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroad meet?
Promontory Point
Name the commander of the 7th Cavalry who was decimated by Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull
Custer
On the banks of what Montana river did the battle between the US Army and the Sioux take place?
Little Bighorn