American Revolution
He was the leader of the Continental Army.
Who was George Washington?
The person who led enslaved people to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
These are laws passed in Southern states that restricted travel and other activities of freed slaves
What are Black Codes
Term applied to people who came to the U.S. after 1880, mostly from southern and eastern Europe. Often came poor and unskilled.
What is a New Immigrant?
He argued that blacks should demand full and immediate equality.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
George Washington crossed this river on Christmas day to attack Hessian troops.
What is the Delaware River?
This person was a Northern general in the Civil War and later became president of the United States.
Ulysses S. Grant
The system in the South to help keep plantations operating after slavery ended was ____________.
sharecropping
Built upward. Cities could have large populations.
What are skyscrapers?
What is journalist that wanted to expose corruption and abuses in industry and government?
What is a Muckraker?
This treaty ended the American Revolution.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This person led the March to the Sea destroying everything in his path.
William T. Sherman
What were Jim Crow laws?
laws that kept African Americans separate from other Americans
Term applied by Mark Twain in the late 1800s to America that describe the political corruption, greed, and poverty that lurked below the surface of society's prosperity.
What is the Gilded Age?
established Hull House ( a settlement house in Chicago in 1889.
Who is Jane Addams?
A person who supported the cause of freedom was called this.
What is a Patriot?
This person was the president of the Union during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
What amendment ended slavery in the U.S.?
13th Amendment
I love to express my opinion using Political Cartoons! William Tweed was a favorite target of mine! Who am I?
Who is Thomas Nast
This reform allowed voters to remove an elected official from office
What is Recall
This delegate from Massachusetts served on the committee that wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who was John Adams?
This person was the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Jefferson Davis
The ________ Amendment protects a person's life, liberty, and property. The _____ Amendment gave all men the right to vote.
14th and 15th
A belief that native-born white Americans were superior to newcomers?
What is nativism?
Who wrote the Jungle?
Who is Upton Sinclair