Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel that increased tensions between the north and the south.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
100
Fort where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
Fort Sumter
100
What was a series of laws designed to regulate the affairs of the emancipated slaves?
Black Codes
100
What were the state-level codes of segregation?
Jim Crow Laws
100
What process allowed steel prices to drop?
Bessemer Process
200
The extreme abolitionist that led the raid at Harpers Ferry
John Brown
200
The unpopular president of the Confederate states.
Jefferson Davis
200
What would grant black men the right to vote?
15th Amendment
200
What Act halted Chinese immigration?
Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882
200
Who created/invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
300
Famous court case that ruled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional
The Dred Scott Case
300
Riots that were sparked by the government allowing citizens to pay $300 to avoid the draft.
The New York Draft Riots
300
During the election of 1864, what party was formed when the Republicans joined with the War Democrats?
The Union Party
300
Who was running against Rutherford B. Hayes in the election of 1876?
Samuel J. Tilden
300
What was done to cows to increase their weight?
Stock Watering - where the made the cow become bloated with water
400
The "sly" constitution created by pro-slavery forces in Kansas to ensure that Jo matter what, slavery would not be illegal.
The Lecompton Constitution
400
The Act that offered free land to those who settled in the West.
The Homestead Act of 1862
400
What Commitee was dominated by radical Republicans who resented the expansion of presidential power in wartime and pressed Lincoln on emancipation?
Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War
400
What faction was led by Roscoe Conkling, which supported the spoils system?
Stalwart
400
What Act prohibited rebates and pools, required the railroads to publish their rates openly, forbade unfair discrimination against shippers, and outlawed charging more for a short trip?
Interstate Commerce Act
500
Enacted to reduce duties by twenty percent in order to please the majority of the South
The Tariff of 1857
500
Established by Britain in 1867 to bolster Canada in the event of union advancements.
Dominion of Canada
500
What Act would punish "traitors" by declaring their slaves property of war who shall be let free?
Confiscation Act of 1862
500
Who ran against Grover Cleveland in the election of 1864?
James G. Blaine
500
What Act forbade combinations in restraint of trade without any distinction between "good" trusts and "bad" trusts?