People | Acts | Rail roads,mining | Growth in cites | Misc. |
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Who was Abraham Lincoln
Most southerners believed he would abolish slavery
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What is the Kansas Nebraska Act
Undid the Missouri Compromise
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What is the Transcontinental Railroad
Connected the East and West Coast
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What is the Assembly line
A manufacturing process in which a product is put together as it moves along a belt
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What is the Homestead Act
Offered people free land for those willing to farm it
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Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe
Is the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
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What is The compromise of 1850
A set of five proposals made by Henry Clay
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What is Rail road Construction
Hired many people but the jobs were strenuous and dangerous.
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What is a sky scrapper
A very tall building many stories high
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What is California
Caused a lot of controversy when they tried to get an admission because there would be an imbalance among slave and free states
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Who is Henry Ford
Built the motor car for multitudes
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What is Bleeding Kansas
Was a time of fighting over California and The Kansas Nebraska Act
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What is share cropping
People couldn’t afford to buy their own land so they would either work on a piece of someone else’s farm in exchange for money and food or let someone farm on a piece of their land.
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What are pull factor
Things that would attract you to this country like freedom, vast jobs, etc
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What is the invention factory
A place invented by Thomas Edison where the first light bulb and motion picture camera was made
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Who is Rutherford B. Hayes
He had lost the peoples votes but ended up winning the election with the most electoral votes.
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What is the Wade Davis Bill
50% of voters would have to sign a loyalty oath before a state could join the Union
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What is mining industry
People ran West to work in this Industry.
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What are push factors
Poor conditions that drove you away from your home like scarce land, poverty, persecution, etc.
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Who are the Wright Brothers
Created the first gas powered air plane that made travel quicker
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Who is Blanch K. Bruce
The first African American to serve a full term in senate
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What is the Wilmot Proviso
Unsuccessful 1846 proposal in the United States to ban slavery
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Who are Chinese and Irish
Where did most workers come from
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What are power plants
Provided power to homes, street cars, and factories
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What is Plessy vs Ferguson
Legalized segregation as long as accommodations were legal
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