Reconstruction
Lincoln’s lenient plan required this percentage of a former Confederate state's 1860 voters to take a Union loyalty oath before forming a new government.
What is 10%?
State laws passed across the South immediately after the Civil War to compel freed African Americans into forced labor contracts and restrict their freedom.
What are the Black Codes?
This mid-19th-century technological innovation allowed for the cheap, mass production of steel, driving Gilded Age urban construction and railroad expansion.
What is the Bessemer Process?
An inclusive labor organization led by Terence Powderly that welcomed skilled and unskilled workers, as well as women and African Americans.
Who are the Knights of Labor?
During the 1892 Homestead Strike, plant manager Henry Clay Frick hired this private mercenary force to break the steelworkers' union.
Who are the Pinkerton National Detectives?
President Washington personally led federal troops to suppress this 1794 frontier uprising, establishing executive authority to enforce national laws
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
Created in the 1880s by the Wunderle Candy Company, this popular tri-colored Halloween treat was originally sold under the agricultural name "Chicken Feed."
What is candy corn?
A responsible high school student works overtime on October 31st while being relentlessly followed by a silent, dedicated star trek fan wearing a modified William Shatner mask.
What is Halloween?
This Congressional group, led by Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner, demanded strict civil rights protections, Black suffrage, and military control of the post-war South.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
This constitutional amendment granted birthright citizenship and guaranteed equal protection under the law, overturning state-level discriminatory laws.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Andrew Carnegie used this business method to control every single stage of steel production and distribution, from raw iron ore mines to ships and mills.
What is vertical integration?
Demands for immediate goals such as higher wages, shorter hours, and safer working conditions formed the practical labor philosophy of this founder and president of the AFL.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
Occurring in 1877, this represented the first major nationwide labor strike in U.S. history and required federal military force to quell.
What is the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
Chief Justice John Marshall established this constitutional principle in Marbury v. Madison (1803), giving courts the power to declare laws unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
When Pope Gregory III designated November 1st as All Saints' Day in the 8th century, October 31st became known by this original three-word name.
What is All Hallows' Eve?
An ambitious dad takes a winter hotel maintenance job to focus on his novel, while his young son enjoys indoor tricycle riding and makes a new imaginary friend.
What is The Shining?
Passed under President Grant, these laws—including the KKK Act of 1871—empowered federal troops to suppress vigilante violence and protect Black voters.
What are the Enforcement Acts?
During Reconstruction, this federal agency achieved its most lasting success by establishing public schools, literacy programs, and universities for former slaves.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
John D. Rockefeller expanded Standard Oil through this business strategy of buying up and consolidating rival refineries to eliminate market competition.
What is horizontal integration?
A collective of trade unions led by Samuel Gompers that focused exclusively on organizing skilled workers into separate craft unions.
What is the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
Union leader Eugene V. Debs was jailed during this 1894 strike after the federal government issued an injunction to break the boycott.
What is the Pullman (Railcar) Strike?
Landmark 1857 Supreme Court ruling stating African Americans were not citizens and Congress could not ban slavery in federal territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
On Halloween night in 1938, Orson Welles caused widespread panic across the U.S. with a realistic radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds detailing an invasion by creatures from this planet.
What is Mars? (or Martians)
A group of passionate film buffs test each other's pop-culture trivia over landline phone calls to see who knows the most about vintage cinema.
What is Scream?
President Andrew Johnson was impeached by the House primarily for violating this Act, but was acquitted one vote in the Senate.
What is the Tenure of Office Act?
Southern states circumvented the 15th Amendment without explicitly mentioning race by enacting these three race-neutral voting barriers.
What are literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses?
Herbert Spencer’s philosophy applying "survival of the fittest" to human society to argue that extreme wealth concentration resulted from natural economic superiority.
What is Social Darwinism?
Public support for the Knights of Labor plummeted following this violent 1886 event in Chicago due to alleged associations with radical anarchism.
What is the Haymarket Square Riot?
During major Gilded Age industrial conflicts, federal and state government power consistently intervened on behalf of this group.
Who are corporate owners / management?
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation legally applied only to enslaved people living in these designated areas.
What are Confederate areas/states actively in rebellion against the Union?
Written in 1820 by Washington Irving, this classic American short story features the Headless Horseman terrifying schoolmaster Ichabod Crane on autumn nights.
What is The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
A mild-mannered couple struggles with modern home renovations and hires a quirky, freelance consultant to help handle unwanted new homeowners.
What is Beetlejuice?
Radical Republican leader Thaddeus Stevens argued that true political emancipation for former slaves required economic independence achieved through this.
What is land ownership (or land redistribution)?
An agricultural system where landowners provided land, seed, and tools in exchange for half the crop, which frequently trapped freedmen in debt peonage.
What is sharecropping?
First federal law passed in 1890 to limit trusts and monopolies, though courts initially weaponized it against striking labor unions.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
Census figures from 1880 to 1900 show that rapid industrial expansion relied on an expanding force of 1.7 million of these workers in manufacturing.
What are children under 16 (or child laborers)?
The violent 1886 Haymarket Square Riot severely damaged the reputation of the Knights of Labor and organized labor because the public began associating union strikes with this radical political ideology.
What is (radical) anarchism?
Concluding the Mexican-American War, this 1848 treaty granted the U.S. the Mexican Cession, including California, Nevada, and Utah.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Before pumpkins were discovered in North America, people in Ireland and Scotland originally carved scary faces into this root vegetable to ward off evil spirits.
What are turnips? (or rutabagas)
An investigative journalist checks out an obscure indie short film on VHS, only to receive a prompt customer service follow-up setting a strict 7-day deadline.
What is The Ring?