Civil War
This Confederate attack on a federal fort began the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
He proposed a Reconstruction plan that would allow Southern states to rejoin the Union once 10% of voters swore loyalty to the United States.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
I dominated banking and finance during the Gilded Age.
Who is J.P. Morgan?
A business that controls an entire industry is called this.
What is a monopoly?
This law banned Chinese laborers from immigrating to the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War and where Lincoln made a short speech that became very famous.
What is Gettysburg?
These laws restricted the rights of African Americans after the Civil War.
What are Black Codes?
This group in Congress believed Johnson's Reconstruction plan was too lenient toward the South.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
I commanded Confederate armies and surrendered at Appomattox.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
The Central Pacific railroad started in this city and built east.
What is Sacramento?
This businessman became president of the Republic of Hawaii after helping to overthrow the monarchy.
Who is Sanford Dole?
This Virginia location is was where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant.
What is the Appomattox Court House?
This amendment protected voting rights for male citizens.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This president was from Tennessee and sympathetic to the South. He allowed most former Confederates to receive pardons and regain political rights.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
I dominated the steel industry and become one of the wealthiest people in history.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This railroad company built west from Omaha.
What is the Union Pacific Railroad?
These 3 territories were acquired by the U.S. after the Spanish-American War
What are the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam?
The bloodiest single day in American history took place at this battle.
What is Antietam?
This amendment grants birthright citizenship.
What is the 14th amendment?
The Reconstruction Acts required formed Confederate states to do what in order to rejoin the Union? Name at least one thing.
Example: write a new constitution, pass the 13th, 14th, 15th amendments.
I was president of the Confederate States of America.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
This symbolic event marked completion of the railroad.
What is the golden spike?
This war involved the United States fighting a nation whose people wanted to govern themselves rather than become part of the United States.
What is the Philippine American War?
This battle gave the Union control of the Mississippi River, dividing and separating the Confederate army from each other.
What is Vicksburg?
This agreement ended Reconstruction by making Republican candidate Hayes president and removing federal troops from the South.
What is the compromise of 1877?
This was one of the reasons for having federal troops in the 5 military districts of the South during Reconstruction.
What is to protect voting rights of African Americans?
I built Standard Oil into a near monopoly.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Rockefeller used this strategy by controlling all stages of production.
What is vertical integration?
This policy justified U.S. involvement in Latin America as an international police power.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?