Systems And Terms

  1. What is laissez-faire capitalism? [answer]
  2. What is mercantilism? [answer]
  3. Why do economists still regard Adam Smith so highly? [answer]
  4. What is Keynesian economics? [answer]
  5. What were indentured servants? [answer]
  6. What was triangular trade? [answer]
  7. How were finished goods made before the Industrial Revolution? [answer]
  8. When was the New York Stock Exchange founded? [answer]
  9. What is the system of scientific management? [answer]
  10. Who invented the assembly line? [answer]
  11. What is a robber baron? [answer]
  12. What is a Horatio Alger story? [answer]
  13. What was Black Tuesday? [answer]
  14. What was the New Deal? [answer]
  15. Why was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act important? [answer]
  16. What is e-commerce? [answer]

Money

  1. What was a piece of eight? [answer]
  2. What was rag money? [answer]
  3. What were wildcat banks? [answer]
  4. What were greenbacks? [answer]
  5. What were Continentals? [answer]
  6. When was the U.S. income tax system established? [answer]
  7. When was the Interstate Commerce Commission established? [answer]

Industries

  1. What was the National Bank Act? [answer]
  2. What is the Federal Reserve? [answer]
  3. How did the American tobacco industry begin? [answer]
  4. What were the Navigation Acts? [answer]
  5. What was the Cumberland Road? [answer]
  6. What was the Pony Express? [answer]
  7. How did the invention of barbed wire change the West? [answer]
  8. When was the biggest gold rush in U.S. history? [answer]
  9. What was the Comstock Lode? [answer]
  10. What is black gold? [answer]
  11. When did diamond mining begin in Africa? [answer]
  12. How did the American textile industry begin? [answer]
  13. How did Eli Whitney happen to invent the cotton gin? [answer]
  14. What was "king cotton"? [answer]
  15. How did the invention of the reaper change America? [answer]
  16. What were bonanza farms? [answer]
  17. How did the American cattle industry get started? [answer]
  18. What is Bessemer process? [answer]
  19. When did chain stores begin? [answer]
  20. When did department stores begin? [answer]
  21. How has the mail-order business changed since the nineteenth century? [answer]
  22. Who was Rosie the Riveter? [answer]
  23. Why was Ford's Model T so important to American history? [answer]
  24. How did plastic revolutionize modern life? [answer]
  25. How long ago was computer giant Microsoft founded? [answer]