Civil War
The Kansas-Nebraska Act concerned which issue?
the expansion of slavery into new territories
The main goal of the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction:
To punish the South and protect the rights of freedmen
What did the Dawes Act try to do to Native Americans?
Assimilate them into a White, Christianized society
The major goal of political machines like Tammany Hall:
To provide services in exchange for votes
Muckrakers were...
Journalists that exposed corruption
What event caused the South to secede from the Union?
Election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860
The main goal of Reconstruction after the Civil War:
To rebuild the South and integrate freed slaves into society
What was a PUSH factor that encouraged people to move westward during the mid-1800s
Overcrowded cities and unemployment in the East
The overall goal of the farmers in the Populist movement:
Increased power for farmers and workers
The Clayton Antitrust Act strengthened what previous reform?
The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
Sectionalism is defined as:
Loyalty to a region or group over country
The Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction by:
Removing federal troops from the South
The Homestead Act of 1862 offered settlers 160 acres of land if they —
Promised to farm and improve the land for five years
During the Gilded Age, companies often hired “strikebreakers” to:
Replace striking workers to keep the business running
Who were the Progressive Era Presidents
Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson
The speech Abraham Lincoln gave to decide on a battlefield cemetery and remind Americans of equality and unity
Gettysburg Address
Why did the Reconstruction Era fail?
Racial equality was not fully achieved
"Kill the Indian, save the man." – Captain Richard H. Pratt, founder of Carlisle Indian School (1892)
This represents...
Assimilation policies aimed at erasing Native cultures
The Haymarket Square Riot of 1886 is best remembered as:
A violent clash between workers and police during a labor protest for an 8-hour workday
This muckraker wrote The Jungle, exposing unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry
Upton Sinclair
The Union's plan to blockade Southern ports and control the Mississippi River was called:
The Anaconda Plan
Organization that tried to help newly free Black Americans get basic resources
The Freedman's Bureau
How do we define Manifest Destiny?
The United States had a god-given or "divine" right to expand its territory to the West.
Immigrants and factory workers experienced many problems living in cities. What were two of them?
Fires, crime, poor sanitation, tenement houses, poor living conditions, water contamination
Progressive Era Amendments (just the numbers)
16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Amendments