Tensions with Slavery in the Western Territories 1845 to 1861
Market Revolution 1815 to 1860
Federal Government in Race Relations 1861 to 1877
The Western Opportunity 1865 to 1900
Immigration 1910's and 1920's
100
Stephen Douglas pushed for popular sovereignty to be used in two territories through this act.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
100
The development of this for machines led to a great increase in the rise of American manufacturing.
What is interchangeable parts?
100
This organization was specifically set up to assist emancipated slaves in the South.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
100
This was, for the most part, the only group who did not have an opportunity at all in the Western lands.
Who are Native Americans?
100
The name of this applied to socialists, anarchists, and communists and the fear that they would take over the United States after World War I.
What is the Red Scare of 1920 and 1921?
200
This Supreme Court Case invalidated the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford of 1857
200
The rise of industry and improvements in farming led to a decline in this type of agricultural practice.
What is subsistence farming?
200
This amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude except in punishment.
What is the 13th Amendment?
200
This act allowed a prospective farmer to purchase 160 acres of land at cheap rates as long as they improved it within five years.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
200
This act allowed for an immigrant to be deported for participating in or speaking about things against the United States government.
What is Alien Act of 1918?
300
This allowed for the admission of California as a free state, the territories of New Mexico and Utah to be determined by popular sovereignty, and the ban of the slave trade in Washington D.C.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
300
The invention of the steel plow by this man greatly improved farming.
Who is John Deere?
300
The agreement to allow Hayes to become president and military forces to leave the South ended the period of Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
300
The transcontinental railroad was an opportunity for these two immigrant groups.
Who are the Chinese and Irish?
300
This act (you need the year) required immigrants to take and pass literacy tests and prevent most Asian immigrants not including Japanese and Korean.
What is Immigration Act of 1917?
400
This acquisition of Mexican territory in 1853 allowed for the building of a possible southern railroad route.
What is the Gadsden Purchase?
400
The development of this mixed enterprise practice, led to the rise of stocks starting in 1817.
What is the New York Stock Exchange?
400
This series of acts were meant to protect blacks right to vote, serve on juries, hold office, and receive equal protection under the law.
What are the Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871?
400
The main purpose of these laws in the 1860's and 1870's was at the state level to regulate railroads to give farmers a fair chance to make a decent living.
What are the Granger Laws?
400
This act drastically reduced the number of immigrants allowed into the United States and created a new category called illegal aliens.
What is the National Origins Act of 1924?
500
This idea was the attempt to create war with Spain in order to acquire Cuba.
What is the Ostend Manifesto?
500
This issued by Jackson in 1836 was made to prevent states from issuing money not backed by gold or silver. It led to the Panic of 1837.
What is Specie Circular?
500
This was a series of laws in the South created after the Civil War to restricted the rights of freed African Americans.
What are the Black Codes of 1865 and 1866?
500
This was a major railroad striker in 1894 that eventually was broken up with federal intervention.
What is the Pullman Strike?
500
This report identified that immigrants coming to the United States were less able to assimilate when compared to past immigrants.