Tensions Over Slavery
Which law required local law enforcement agencies to return runaway slaves to their owners, even if they were in a free state?
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Who was President of the United States during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
What event directly led to the end of Reconstruction?
The Presidential Election of 1876
"The Jungle" focuses on what type of industry in which major American city?
The meatpacking industry in Chicago
On December 7th, 1941, Japanese forces bombed which American military base, bringing the country into World War II?
Pearl Harbor
Which major agricultural crop fueled the growth of slavery in the Deep South during the 1800s?
Cotton
Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?
Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina
Which amendments are considered as the "Reconstruction Amendments"?
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
Which Pope issued Rerum novarum?
Pope Leo XIII
Kamehameha was once the king over which state?
Hawai'i
John Brown attempted to raid a federal armory and state a slave rebellion in which state?
Virginia
Which two battles, decided within a day of each other, are largely seen as the turning point of the Civil War?
Vicksburg and Gettysburg
What were the laws that President Grant used in an attempt to weaken the Ku Klux Klan?
The Enforcement (Force) Acts
What French term translates to "let it happen"?
Laissez-faire
Which president presided over the vast majority of the Great Depression?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Which Congressional agreement prevented slavery prohibited in Louisiana Territory north of the 36° 30´ latitude line?
Missouri Compromise
Which general was at first known his string of victories in the Western Theater of the Civil War?
Ulysses Grant
Who was the Secretary of War which Andrew Johnson fired, leading to his impeachment by the House of Representatives?
Edwin Stanton
Identify the name of one "captian of industry" or "robber-baron". Bonus points if you also get their main industry too.
Cornelius Vanderbilt (railroads)
Andrew Carneigie (steel)
J.P. Morgan (banking)
John D. Rockefeller (oil)
What day marked the formal end of World War I?
November 11th, 1918
Identify the four parties & candidates that ran in the election of 1860.
Republican - Abraham Lincoln
Democratic - Stephen Douglas
Southern Democratic - John Breckenridge
Constitutional Unionist - John Bell
Identify the slave states that remained a part of the Union during the Civil War.
Delaware
Maryland
Kentucky
Missouri
Which four states had contested results in the Presidential Election of 1876?
Oregon, Louisiana, Florida, and South Carolina
What is the name of the practice of trying to find out unpleasant information about people or organizations in order to make it public?
Muckracking
Which three leaders died within two weeks of each other at the end of World War II?