Civil War Causes
This 1852 novel intensified Northern antislavery sentiment
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Roosevelt’s domestic reform program
What is the Square Deal?
This 1898 war marked America’s rise as a global power
What is the Spanish‑American War?
This system kept many Black farmers in debt
What is sharecropping?
This organization began as a social/educational group for farmers
What is the Grange?
This 1854 act allowed popular sovereignty in KS‑NE
What is the Kansas‑Nebraska Act?
Journalists exposing corruption
What are muckrakers?
This amendment said the U.S. wouldn’t annex Cuba
What is the Teller Amendment?
These laws enforced segregation
What are Jim Crow laws?
This 1890s party demanded free silver
What is the Populist Party?
This 1857 case ruled Black Americans weren’t citizens
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This amendment established direct election of senators
What is the 17th Amendment?
This naval strategist argued sea power = world power
Who is Alfred Thayer Mahan?
This 1896 case upheld “separate but equal"
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This 1896 speech defended bimetallism
What is the “Cross of Gold” speech?
This 1860 event triggered Southern secession
What is Lincoln’s election?
This 1911 factory fire accelerated workplace reforms
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
This 1899 policy promoted equal trade in China
What is the Open Door Policy?
This Black leader promoted vocational education and gradualism
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This 1887 law regulated railroad rates
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
This 1850 law forced Northerners to assist in capturing escaped enslaved people
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This 1904 book exposed meatpacking horrors
What is The Jungle?
This 1898 annexation gave the U.S. a key Pacific base
What is Hawaii?
This Black leader demanded immediate civil rights and helped found the NAACP
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
This 1896 election ended the Populist movement
What is McKinley vs. Bryan?