Law and Order
An 1828 law that hurt the Southern economy and caused the nullification crisis earned this nickname.
What is the "tariff of abominations"?
From 1607 to 1865, this labor system remained central to the Southern economy despite political changes.
What is slavery?
The Mexican-American War resulted directly from disputes over this newly annexed territory.
What is Texas?
This industrialist built the Standard Oil monopoly and became a symbol of Gilded Age big business.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This political party emerged in the 1850s in opposition to the expansion of slavery into the western territories.
What is the Republican party?
This Supreme Court decision intensified sectional conflict by ruling that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
This early-19th-century economic transformation linked regional economies through canals, roads, railroads, and new manufacturing, shifting the U.S. toward a national market economy.
What is the Market Revolution?
This 1856 violent conflict erupted in response to slavery being decided by popular sovereignty.
What is "bleeding Kansas"?
This president enforced the Indian Removal Act and challenged the Supreme Court in Worcester v. Georgia.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This term describes the widespread use of government jobs and favors to reward political supporters during the Gilded Age.
What is the Spoils System?
This act restricted Chinese immigration and reflected growing nativist sentiment in the late 19th century.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Unlike Henry Clay’s American System, Jacksonian Democrats opposed this.
What is a national bank?
The Union victory at this 1863 battle marked a military and diplomatic turning point in the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This senator argued for states’ rights during the Nullification Crisis and defended slavery as a “positive good.”
Who is John C. Calhoun?
The end of Reconstruction is commonly dated to this political compromise.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This 1830 law marks a turning point in federal Indian policy toward forced migration rather than assimilation.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This term described large corporations that controlled every step of production, a strategy used by Andrew Carnegie.
What is vertical integration?
This 1890 massacre is frequently cited as the symbolic end of the Indian Wars.
What is Wounded Knee?
This reformer founded Hull House and advocated for settlement houses and social reform.
Who is Jane Addams?
The Seneca Falls Convention took place during a period of reform known as this movement.
What is the Second Great Awakening? (or Antebellum reform movement)
The rapid growth of big business and monopolies during the Gilded Age caused the federal government to pass this 1890 legislation.
What is the Anti-Sherman trust act?
The failure of Reconstruction was accelerated by Northern fatigue caused largely by this economic event.
What is the Panic of 1873?
This 1876 battle between the U.S. Army and Native American tribes resulted in the defeat of General Custer.
What is Little Bighorn?
This abolitionist published The Liberator and demanded immediate emancipation.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This massive 1894 labor conflict involved railroad workers and led to federal troops being sent in to break the strike.
What is the Pullman Strike?