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Who was John Brown?
Started a slave revolt in the South.
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What was the Transcontinental Railroad?
Connected the East Coast to the West Coast.
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What was the 13th Amendment?
Banned Slavery in the United States.
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Who was Henry Ford?
Developed the first automobile.
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What is Amnesty?
A group pardon.
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Who was Jefferson Davis?
The first president of the CSA.
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What was the Controversy of California?
The entry of California would disrupt the balance between slave and free states.
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What was the Missouri Compromise 1820?
Banned slavery in all the territory from the Louisiana purchase but Missouri.
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What was Railroad Construction?
Caused by people moving west to get rich and get better lives.
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What is an Assembly Line?
A new method of manufacturing that had a product be built along a moving belt.
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Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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What was a Power Plant?
Thomas Edison invented this to power cities.
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What was the Popular Sovereignty?
The people in a state would vote individually instead of having a representative vote for them.
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What was the Mining Industry?
People went west to mine after deposits of gold and silver were found so people could get rich.
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What is Assimilation?
Children do this faster since they meet more people speaking the language to them.
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Who was Rutherford Hayes?
His election was controversial because he loss the popular vote, but still won the election because of the electoral vote.
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What was the Invention Factory?
Thomas Edison's laboratory where he would create hundreds of inventions.
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What was the 3/5th Compromise?
3 out of 5 slaves were counted as a person in a population.
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Who is an Entrepreneur?
Someone who sets a new business for profit.
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What is Plessy vs. Furgusen?
The Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal if the facilities were equal.
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Who was Blache K. Bruce?
The first black person to serve a full term in the Senate.
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What was a Settlement House?
Provided services such as food and shelter to the poor.
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What was the Wilmot Proviso?
An act that would have banned slavery in the territory gained from the Mexican-American War.
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What was the Freedman's Bureau?
Helped freed slaves get housing and education.
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What is Growth in Cities?
The introduction of steel caused a boom in industry causing people to move to the cities.
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