1. Review of
Eddie Cho

2. What was not the impact caused by building a railroad system?
A) Transporting of goods quickly and cheaply
B) Opening up remote areas to settlement
C) Economic development of rural areas
D) Expanding of Businesses
E) Devalue of timber and land

3. E
Railroad system required vast amount of timber and land resources to connect interstate railroad line.

4. Lincoln vs. Douglas Debate 1858
Lincoln Popular sovereignty
Douglas Slavery is evil
What’s wrong with this argument?

5. Lincoln popular sovereignty
Douglas Slavery is evil

6. Fill-in
Paralyzing economic depression, 1873, based on over-speculation, huge inflation, problems with silver, no more silver being sold to treasury to mint, then silver production goes up people now want silver dollars “bring back the dollar of our daddies” _____________, states the treasury will buy $2 –4 million worth of silver a month.

7. Bland-Allison Act
The Bland-Allison Act was an 1878 law passed over the veto of President Rutherford B. Hayes requiring the U.S. treasury to buy a certain amount of silver and put it into circulation as silver dollars. The goal was to subsidize the silver industry in the Mountain states and inflate prices.

8. Gadsden Purchase
Which of the following was acquired through Gadsden purchase?
A) southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico
B) Southern Texas and west of Louisiana
C) south-eastern California
D) UTAH!

9.
A
The Gadsden Purchase was intended to allow for the construction of a transcontinental railroad along a very southern route, and it was part of negotiations needed to finalize border issues that remained unresolved from the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican-American War of 1846–48.

10. Choose one that is NOT part of Compromise of 1877
A) The removal of all Federal troops from the former Confederate States.
B) The appointment of at least one Southern Democrat to Hayes' cabinet.
C) Legislation to help industrialize North
D) The construction of another transcontinental railroad using the Texas and Pacific in the South

11. C Industrialized the SOUTH to help them restore
A) (Troops only remained in Louisiana, South Carolina, and Florida, but the Compromise finalized the process.)
B) David M. Key of Tennessee was Postmaster General
D) Scott Plan

12. Fill in
South opens fire on Northern. troops at _____ ________, Charleston harbor, SC, April 12, 1861.

13. Fort Sumter
Yeah we saw the movie.

14. Fill In
________ _________= two millionaires tried to corner gold market, 1869, day named black Friday tried dive the gold price up the wall, treasury compelled to release gold, this was unexpected to the con artists.

15. Jay Gould & Jim Fisk
Jason "Jay" Gould was an American financier who became a leading American railroad developer and speculator. Although he was long vilified as an archetypal robber baron, modern historians have discounted various myths about him and evaluated his career more positively.