Reconstruction Era
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This act, signed in 1862, encouraged the construction of a transcontinental railroad.
What is the Pacific Railway Act?
This invention revolutionized communication by allowing messages to be sent over long distances via electrical signals.
What is the telegraph?
This political party, formed in 1854, opposed the spread of slavery into the Western territories.
What is the Republican Party?
This U.S. battleship exploded in Havana Harbor, leading to calls for war with Spain.
What is the USS Maine?
This act, passed in 1867, divided the South into five military districts.
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
Identify the event in 1889 that opened up large portions of Indian Territory to settlement.
What is the Oklahoma Land Rush?
Name the company founded by John D. Rockefeller that dominated the oil industry during this period.
What is Standard Oil?
Name the scandal in the 1870s that involved the illegal activities of railroad construction companies and government officials.
What is the Credit Mobilier scandal?
Name the group of volunteer cavalry, led by Theodore Roosevelt, that gained fame during the Spanish-American War.
What are the Rough Riders?
Name the president who was impeached by the House of Representatives during this period.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Name the battle in 1876 where General Custer and his troops were defeated by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
This labor union, formed in 1869, sought to improve conditions for skilled workers through collective bargaining.
What is the Knights of Labor?
This 1887 law regulated railroad rates and prohibited discriminatory pricing practices.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
Identify the treaty that ended the Spanish-American War and ceded territories such as Puerto Rico and Guam to the United States.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1898)?
This case in 1896 upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This doctrine, announced in 1823, stated that European powers should not interfere with affairs in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Identify the event in 1894 where workers went on strike to protest wage cuts by the Pullman Palace Car Company.
What is the Pullman Strike?
Identify the presidential candidate who won the popular vote but lost the electoral college in the disputed election of 1876.
Who is Samuel Tilden?
This sensationalized style of journalism, exemplified by newspapers like Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal, contributed to public support for the war.
What is yellow journalism?
Name one of the prominent African American leaders who emerged during the Reconstruction era.
Who is Booker T. Washington or W.E.B. Du Bois?
This event in 1890 marked the end of the Indian Wars in the United States.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
This economic theory, popular during the late 19th century, argued that unrestricted competition would lead to greater prosperity for all.
What is Social Darwinism?
This 1890 act aimed to combat monopolistic practices by prohibiting trusts and monopolies that restrained trade or commerce.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This amendment, added to the U.S. Constitution in 1901, asserted American control over Cuba and authorized the construction of a naval base at Guantanamo Bay.
What is the Platt Amendment?