Review Questions and Answers8
Vertical Integration - ANSWERS -buy out suppliers
Gilded Age - ANSWERS -coined by Mark Twain , growing gap between poor and rich
Plessy vs. Ferguson - ANSWERS -separate but equal
Trust - ANSWERS -competing companies joined in trust agreements
Jim Crow Laws - ANSWERS -racial segregation laws
Populist Party Platform - ANSWERS -lift debt from farmers, graduated tax, 8 hour work days
Immigration from Europe during the 1880s: why - ANSWERS -escaped religious persecution,
poverty, political movement, rising populations ment less jobs
Booker T. Washington - ANSWERS -founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama
Andrew Carnegie - ANSWERS -dominated steel industry
Tribes of the Southwest - ANSWERS -Anazi, Apache, Navajo, Hohokam and Hopi
, Bering Land Bridge Theory: what does it state - ANSWERS -(how first people came) Ic age
glaciers had frozen large quantities of the Earth's water, exposing a land bridge between Europe,
Africa and the Americas
Columbian Exchange: between whom - ANSWERS -trade developed between Europe, Africa and
Americas
Spanish explorer who went to the Southwest - ANSWERS -Cornado of Spain
Country who settled the Southwest - ANSWERS -Spain
Southern colonies: economy based on what - ANSWERS -large scale agriculture (tobacco, indigo,
cotton)
Massachusetts Bay Colony: characteristics - ANSWERS -rocky, thin soil, cold winters: ship
building, trading, subsistence farming, triangular trade, urban society, political power rested in
adult
Puritans: why did they come to the New World - ANSWERS -legacy of hard work, quiet and
moralistic; leave due to religious persecution
Indentured Servants - ANSWERS -would break tools, fake illness, work slowly to resist.
- Stono Rebellion: took place in SC largest and most successful rebellion in the colonies prior to
the American Revolution; in reaction harsh slave laws were passed
Common characteristic of all the colonies - ANSWERS -has some form of legislative body