This Supreme Court decision declared that slaves were not citizens and therefore did not have the right to sue in court.
What is Dredd Scott vs. Sanford
100
This battle which the Union won divided the Mississippi River in half. General Grant made a siege and starved the people.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
100
President Andrew Johnson's refusal to enforce many laws passed during Reconstruction led Congress to take this action.
What is try and impeach him?
100
This act passed in 1887, required Native Americans to change their lifestyles to assimilate into mainstream American society.
What is the Dawes Act?
100
This woman founded Hull House (settlement house) to help immigrant women and children.
Who is Jane Addams?
200
This man tried to start a slave revolt at Harper's Ferry. He was hung.
Who is John Brown?
200
This Union General's "March to the Sea" created havoc. His troops looted and burned everything in their path including the city of Atlanta, Georgia.
Who is General William T. Sherman?
200
This organization, set up immediately after the Civil War, provided food, shelter, and educational opportunities for former slaves and their families.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
200
According to this theory/doctrine, Whites have a right to Westward expansion.
What is manifest destiny?
200
This was the name of the strike against Andrew Carnegie's steel mill. Henry Frick called in Pinkerton detectives to battle strikers.
What is the Homestead Strike?
300
This is the Compromise that enacted the Fugitive Slave Act which made Northerners very angry.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
300
During the Civil War, this freed slaves in Confederate territory only.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
These Northerners traveled to the South during Reconstruction to take advantage of economic opportunities.
Who are carpetbaggers?
300
In this battle, General Custer lost to Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
300
The Cross of Gold speech was made by this man. He wanted bimetallism (silver AND gold).
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
400
Anti-slavery and pro-slavery settlers violently fought over this territory because of popular sovereignty.
What is Kansas?
400
This battle was a turning point in the war and the scene of Pickett's charge.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
400
This is the amendment that gave African Americans citizenship and in theory, equal rights. It stopped Southern States from making Black Codes. They started segregating instead.
What is the 14th amendment?
400
This law gave people 160 acres of land to settle the West.
What is the Homestead Act?
400
This man said, "You supply the pictures, I'll furnish the war."
Who is William Randolph Hearst?
500
States felt that they had the right to "nullify" (cancel) federal laws that they didn't like, and to do this thing, that South Carolina did when Lincoln was elected.
What is secede?
500
This is the place where General Grant received General Lee's surrender.
What is Appomattox?
500
The Reconstruction Act of 1867 did this to the South.
What is divide it into military occupation zones?
500
This process made the production of steel cheaper. It helped Andrew Carnegie build his Empire.
What is the Bessemer process?
500
This is what party bosses, like Tweed, wanted from immigrants. Political machines gave immigrants services and in exchange, they got this.