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- Most enslaved people on plantations worked as...
- What dangerous journey did the slaves travel on, at night to escape slavery?
- What is an impact of the industrial revolution on industrialized country's?
- This type of business organization, ___________________________________, described a company that acquired control of its supply of raw materials, its manufacturing process, and its distribution network.
- This type of business organization, _____________________________________________, resulted when several competing firms in the same industry merged into one trust or holding company to limit competition.
- They wanted workplace safety laws, elimination of child labor, and a federal income tax.
- A law passed in 1882, forbade people from this nation ____________________________________ from immigrating to the United States, limited their civil rights, and forbade them the right to naturalize as citizens.
- _________________________ was the idea that real economic wealth is created by workers who make their living by physical labor, such as farmers and craftsmen, and that merchants, lawyers, bankers, and other middlemen exploit these workers.
- This 1887 legislation, ________________________________________, ended Native American communal land ownership and divided reservation land into 160 acres plot owned by individuals instead of the tribes.
- It negotiated for better wages, hours, and working conditions.
- They established the Greenback-Labor Party to pursue their demands politically
- They wanted reductions of protective tariffs, regulated railroad rates, and regulated insurance rates.
- They proposed a federal price support system for prices and government storage of crops.
- ___________________________________ was a type of farming that developed in the South after the Civil War where former slaves farmed a white man's land in exchange for farm supplies and a portion of the harvest.
- They practiced open membership and welcomed most races, gender, or field of employment to join.
- The collapse of this corporation run by Jay Cooke caused severe economic suffering known as the Panic of 1873 that contributed to the end of reconstruction, ____________________.
- ___________________________ were freedmen who left the South to begin black communities in the West
- This notorious system in the South _______________________________ was rife with horrific conditions and endemic corruption that allowed state officials to hire out prisoners to work for private companies.
- A chronic shortage of capital in the South forced freedmen to resort to this arrangement, _______________ where merchants or planters loaned them money at high interest rates that kept the freedmen in debt peonage.
- ________________________________________ were laws passed in the South that restricted the freedom of blacks by denying them the right to serve on juries, prohibited interracial marriage, and similar measures.