vocab test

Question 1

freedmans bureau

Answer 1

reconstruction agency to help war torn areas

Question 2

union pacific and central pacific

Answer 2

two railroads that completed first transcontinental railroad in 1869

Question 3

horizontal monopoly

Answer 3

method of forming big business by controlling all the same type of business

Question 4

samual gompers

Answer 4

leader of AFL

Question 5

jacob riis

Answer 5

wrote book ¨how the other half lives¨

Question 6

john d rockefeller

Answer 6

owner of standard oil company

Question 7

know nothings

Answer 7

small political party that was anti immigration

Question 8

lincoln douglas debates

Answer 8

famous political race for the senate seat of illinois

Question 9

gettysburg

Answer 9

turning point of civil war

Question 10

patriot

Answer 10

someone who wanted the us to be free

Question 11

alexander hamilton

Answer 11

leader of federalist party

Question 12

merit system

Answer 12

system of examinations that gave jobs to the most qualified person for the job

Question 13

boston tea party

Answer 13

colonial protest of townshend act that created monopoly

Question 14

1828 tarriff crisis

Answer 14

crisis involving SC

Question 15

great compromise

Answer 15

agreement between large and small states for bicameral congress

Question 16

trail of tears

Answer 16

forced removal of cherokee indians

Question 17

puritans

Answer 17

group of religious refugees who est massachusetts bay

Question 18

sedition act

Answer 18

laws passed by federalist congress to suppress opposition during XYZ affair

Question 19

american system

Answer 19

program of internal improvements

Question 20

underground railroad

Answer 20

network of safe houses for slaves

Question 21

common sense

Answer 21

article by thomas paine

Question 22

proclamation of 1763

Answer 22

british law prohibiting colonists from crossing App mountains

Question 23

columbian exchange

Answer 23

exchange of goods and ideas between dif cultures

Question 24

social darwinism

Answer 24

idea that best businesses will rise to the top

Question 25

ethnic neighborhood

Answer 25

areas where many immigrants settle

Question 26

sherman anti trust act

Answer 26

law that attempted to regulate big businesses

Question 27

pendleton act

Answer 27

law that dismantled spoils system

Question 28

contrictor plan

Answer 28

plan of union leaders to cut confederacy in two

Question 29

dime novels

Answer 29

stories of adventure and success

Question 30

ghost town

Answer 30

abandoned mining town