Important People
This former enslaved person became a leading abolitionist speaker.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This Supreme Court case upheld segregation, as separate but equal.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This was the nickname for southerners who supported Reconstruction.
What is scalawag?
This Union strategy aimed to suffocate the South economically.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This industrialist dominated the steel industry through vertical integration.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This president is the first president to ever be impeached.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This amendment overturned the Dred Scott decision.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
This federal agency provided education, food, and legal assistance to African Americans.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This act restricted immigration based on nationality for the first time.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Thomas Jefferson passed this unpopular law that stopped trade with Europe.
What is the Embargo Act?
This Supreme Court case recognized Native American sovereignty but was ignored by Jackson.
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
This law limited the president’s power to remove cabinet members.
What is the Tenure of Office Act?
This future president became a war hero after his victory at the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This violent 1886 labor protest occurred in Chicago.
What is the Haymarket Riot?
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison authored these two documents to show their displeasure with John Adam’s Alien and Sedition Acts.
What are the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions?
This case upheld federal power to create a national bank.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
This president benefited from the Compromise of 1877.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
This 1848 treaty ended the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This labor union welcomed both skilled and unskilled workers.
What are the Knights of Labor?
This individual offered the doctrine of nullification in the Nullification Crisis of 1832.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
This case limited Congress’s power to regulate interstate commerce before the Civil War.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden?
This was the initial attempt of Radical Republicans to restrict the South’s ability to rejoin the Union. It was vetoed by Lincoln.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
This treaty officially ended the American Revolution in 1783.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This law attempted to regulate railroad rates.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?