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| What were the advantages of the North in the Civil War? | industry, railroads, more people, established military |
| What were the advantages of the South in the Civil War? | military generals, defensive war |
| What is the significance of Antietam? | Gave Lincoln the victory he needed to announce the Emancipation Proclamation |
| What was the truning point of the Civl War? | Gettysburg (fought on northern soil) |
| What did the Emancipation Proclamation do? | freed slaves in areas in rebellion against the Union (kept slavery in the border states) |
| What was the greatest threat to civil liberties during the Civil War? | Lincoln suspended habeas corpus |
| What was Lincoln's primary goal at the outset of the Civil War? | preserve the Union (not freeing the slaves) |
| What Union general led the famous March to the Sea from Atlanta to Savannah? | General Sherman |
| Where did Lee surrender to Grant on April 9, 1865? | Appomatox Courthouse |
| Compare Johnson's Reconstruction plan to the Radical Republicans | Johnson wanted to be lenient; Readical Republicans wanted to punish the South |
| What did the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments do? | 13- free slaves; 14- citizenship; 15- vote |
| Why did the western movement intensify after the Civil War? | Homestead Act; Transcontintental Railroad; land |
| Who did blacks vote for in the South, during Reconstruction? | Republicans (Grant) |
| What were poll taxes; literacy tests, grandfather clauses? | ways to keep blacks from voting |
| What were Jim Crow Laws? | Laws that segregated the races |
| What was sharcropping? | a new way of keeping blacks tied to the land, by requring them to pay a share of their crop to farm owners |
| Who was WEB DuBois? | Harvard educated, felt blacks should advance with education; founds NAACP |
| Who was Booker T Washington? | felt blacks should learn a trade or skill and slowly integrate into white society; Tuskegee Institute |
| Who was Ida B. Wells? | woman who fought for civil rights and end to lynchings |
| What is the significance of Plessy v. Ferguson? | established the doctrine of separate but equal- legal segregation |
| What is the Bessemer process? | process for making steel with iron and coal |
| Who is Thomas Edison? | invented light bulb, research lab at Menlo Park |
| Who is Alexander Graham Bell? | invented telephone |
| Who is Henry Ford? | assembly line and automobile |
| Who are the Wright Brothers? | invent airplane |
| What was the goal of the Interstate Commerce Act? | regulate the railroads (fed govt only could regulate trade between states) |
| What does laissez-faire mean? | government does not interfere in the economy |
| Who was Andrew Carnegie? | steel industrialist; vertical and horizontal integration |
| Who was John D. Rockefeller? | oil industrialist |
| Who was JP Morgan? | banker |
| Who was Cornelius Vanderbilt | captain of industry in railroads |
| What was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act | meant to stop monopolies and trusts |
