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President of the United States during the Mexican-American War.
Who is James K. Polk?
Construction of this was completed at Promontory, Utah.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
The belief that lands from the Mexican Cession should not have slavery.
What is the Free Soil Movement?
Proclaimed that the Civil War was to protect government "of the people, by the people, for the people."
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This invention started the Range Wars between cattle ranchers and farmers.
What is barbed wire?
Supreme Court Justice who ruled that enslaved people were not citizens and had no legal standing in the Dred Scott Decision.
Who is Roger Taney?
The territories of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and Utah.
What is the Mexican Cession?
The concept of renting farmland with payment of a portion of the crop harvest.
What is sharecropping?
Declared all enslaved people in the Confederate States to be free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Lead by John Muir, these environmentalists believed in maintaining the national forests free from human interference.
What are preservationists?
Was the Populist and Democratic candidate for president in 1896 election.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
Was the downfall of the Knights of Labor who were accused of murdering police and promoting anarchy.
What is the Haymarket Square Riot?
The idea that some people are genetically superior to others.
What is Social Darwinism?
Guarantees Voting Rights regardless of race, religion, national origin, or former condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Immigration reform promoted by women establishing establishing community support centers for New Immigrants.
What are the Settlement Houses?
Leader of the Democratic political machine Tammany Hall in New York City.
Who is Boss Tweed?
The migration of emancipated African Americans out of the South to Kansas.
What is the Exoduster Movement?
Government should not make any laws restricting or regulating business.
What is Laissez Faire Policy?
Prohibited the immigration and naturalization of Chinese nationals.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Traveling leisure activity featuring acrobats and animals.
What is P.T. Barnum's circus?
Steel manganate who authored The Gospel of Wealth.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Alexandria, Virginia.
What is the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
Belief that no single nation could colonize and control the markets in China.
What is Open Door Policy?
Supreme Court decision that established the principle of separate but equal.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This law was originally used against striking labor unions to prevent the stoppage of production.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?