The Civil War
Who were people fighting to end slavery?
Abolitionists
The amendments collectively known as the "Civil War Amendments", outlawed slavery, gave African-Americans citizenship and the right to vote.
What are the 13th(abolition of slavery), 14th (citizenship and due process) and 15th Amendments (right to vote-men only)
The name of the this time period in American History, given by Mark Twain as a social commentary on society.
What is the Gilded Age?
System in which supporters and friends of politicians were awarded with government positions
What is the Spoils System?
Social movement that arose in the 1890s to tackle problems such as industrialization, urbanization, and immigration
What is Progressivism?
What is the act Southern states did in leaving the Union called?
What is secession?
This agreement allowed Rutherford B. Hayes to become president in the contested election of 1876 in return for federal troops being removed from southern states.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Complete control of a product or service
What is a monopoly?
This act allowed the government to break up Native tribal lands and give Native-Americans farm homesteads and provided education and missionaries to assimilate Natives into American culture
What is the Dawes Act?
The belief that life is a competitive struggle and that some races are superior to others and more fit to rule; used to justify Imperialism.
What is Social Darwinism?
Novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that told of the horrors of slavery and enraged a nation
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
This Government program's goal was to provide food, clothing, healthcare, and education for both black and white refugees in the South. Enacted after Lincoln vetoed the Wade-Davis Bill
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Robber Barons increased their power by gaining control of the many different business that made up all phases of a product’s development, allowed businesses to reduce their costs and charge higher prices to competitors.
What is Vertical Integration?
This legislation ended the Spoils Sytem.
What is the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
This Civil Rights leader formed the Niagara Movement, which called for rapid equality for African-Americans; later formed the NAACP
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
This battle is regarded as the turning point in the Civil War; turned the tide of victory towards the Union.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
The Enforcement Acts were enacted to protect the voting rights of African -Americans and stop the violence carried out primarily by this group
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This legislation aimed to break up cartels, corporations and trusts that restrained business and commerce among several states
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
a system of railroads linking the East with the fast expanding West
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This incident started the Spanish-American War, which resulted in the U.S. acquiring Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Phillipines.
What is the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor?
Supreme Court decision that held that slaves were considered property and therefore had no rights as persons; ruled that the Missouri compromise was unconstitutional.
What is Scott V. Sandford? (Dredd Scott)
Many freed African-Americans worked and lived as this
What re share-croppers?
What is The Pullman Strike?
This political party was formed to continue the work of groups like the Grange and the Famers' Alliance; called for regulation of railroads, silver coins, and low interest loans for farmers.
What is the Populist Party?
Theodore Roosevelt's foreign diplomacy, which called for reliance of American military strength to achieve goals; resulted in controlling the Panama Canal, free trade in China, and hegemony over Pan America.
What is Big Stick diplomacy?