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English 342 Midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| End of Reconstruction | 1877 |
| Advocates of reconstruction | radical republicans |
| Two companies chartered to build first transcontinental railroad | Central Pacific and Union Pacific |
| Locations of the trans railroad | Central Pacific started in Sacramento Union Pacific started at Missouri River |
| Workers for Union Pacific | Irish immigrants and Civil War vets |
| Workers for Central Pacific | Chinese immigrants |
| When trans railroad was completed | May 10, 1869 |
| Where the final spike was driven | Promontory Point |
| Who invented the telephone | Alexander Graham Bell |
| When was the first phone call made | March 10, 1876 |
| What company eventually came out of the Bell Telephone Company | AT&T |
| When was the first transcontinental phone call | 1915 |
| Who invented the incandescent light bulb | Thomas Edison 1880 |
| What company came out of Edison Electric Company | General Electric Company |
| Greatest effect of incandescent light bulb | Light available at any time of day; work later |
| When was the American Red Cross founded | May 21, 1881 |
| Who founded the American Red Cross | Clara Barton |
| First major American organization started by a woman | American Red Cross |
| Was a slave for first nine years of his life | Booker T. Washington |
| Name of institute Washington founded | Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute |
| When was Tuskegee Institute founded | July 4, 1881 |
| When was the Chinese Exclusionary Act | 1882 |
| What did the Chinese Exclusionary Act do | Prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers |
| What act lifted the Chinese Exclusionary Act | Magnuson Act 1943 |
| Who created/designed the Statue of Liberty | Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi |
| Who engineered the Statue of Liberty | Gustave Eiffel |
| When was the Statue of Liberty dedicated | October 28, 1886 |
| Who dedicated Liberty | President Grover Cleveland |
| What does Lady Liberty symbolize | friendship between France and America, freedom, hope, and acceptance |
| Created the Brooklyn Bridge | John Augustus Roebling |
| Location of the Brooklyn Bridge | Over the East River between Manhattan and Brooklyn |
| First steel suspension bridge with the longest span in the world | Brooklyn Bridge |
| Workers nickname | Sandhogs |
| Condition many workers fell victim to | Caisson disease - the bends |
| Brooklyn Bridge completed | 1883 |
| Sherman Anti-Trust Act named after | Senator Sherman of Ohio - secretary of the Treasury under President Hayes |
| Sherman Anti-Trust Act passed | 1890 |
| Most well known trust in US history | Standard Oil |
| Invented the first Kodak Camera | George Eastman |
| When was the patent placed on the camera roll | 1885 |
| Federal Pure Food and Drug Act | 1906 signed by Theodore Roosevelt |
| Invented the motion picture camera | Thomas Edison |
| Completion of the motion picture camera | 1892 |
| Kinetograph | attach images to a cylinder spun at a high speed - gives illusion of motion |
| The White City of the Chicago World Fair honors | 400th anniversary of Columbus' land fall in the new world |
| Dates of the Chicago World Fair | May 1, 1893 - October 30, 1893 |
| When was Chicago Day | October 9, 1893 |
| What murders took place during the Chicago World Columbian Exchange | Dr. Henry Howard Holmes murdered dozens of murders - discovered after the fair. Mayor Carter Harrison Sr. killed on October 28. |
| The big constitutional question of Plessy vs. Ferguson | Can states make laws that require different races to use separate but equal facilities? |
| When was Plessy vs. Ferguson decided | May 18, 1896 |
| Decision of Plessy vs. Ferguson | Plessy found guilty for sitting in white rail car - law seen as reasonable, traditional, and custom |
| Effects of Plessy vs. Ferguson | Separate but equal spread to theaters, restaurants, restrooms, and schools |
| What court case repealed the decision of Plessy vs. Ferguson | Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954 |
| Nickname for early stakeholders in the Yukon gold find of 1896 | Klondike Kings |
| How many people left for Yukon and how many made it back | 100,000 went on trip, 30,000 completed it |
| Nickname for the White Pass Trail | The Dead Horse Trail because many men ate dead horse meat found on the trail |
| First city in Western Canada to have electric lights | Dawson |
| How much gold was found by Klondike Kings | Estimated one billion dollars worth |
| Socialist Party | Gained strength from its ties to labor - ensure Union members were no longer being exploited by the profit system |
| Surplus laobr | The amount of labor one performs beyond what one receives in goods |
| Goal of American Socialism | Giving control of the means of production to the working class |
| Socialist Party of America candidate for President in 1904, 1908, 1912, and 1920 | Eugene V. Debs |
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