History Fact Finder

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]