Causes of the Civil War
This act called for popular sovereignty which led to Bleeding Kansas
Kansas Nebraska Act
Name for Northern plan of attack
Anaconda Plan
What was required for states to reenter the Union following the Civil War under President Andrew Johnson?
States had to ratify the 13th amendment
In the decades following the Civil War, industry and invention were on the rise. What do we call this period? The _____Age.
Gilded
Journalists who wrote about the problems of society?
Muckrakers
1857 court case that knocks down the Missouri Compromise
Dred Scott v Sanford
Grant's strategy to bring war home to the people of the South as Sherman marched his troops to the sea.
Total War
Under Congressional control what did states have to do in order to reenter the Union?
Ratify the 13th, 14th and the South was divided into military zones.
What stimulated all this big business and invention?
The railroad.
Settlement houses, like Hull House in Chicago, offered inexpensive food, daycare and job training to the impoverished in urban cities. Who founded Hull House?
Jane Addams
Missouri Compromise, 1820
Military move to try and encourage some to move North and join the war effort.
Emancipation Proclamation
As a response to strict implementation of Reconstruction, what developed in the South in order to limit African American access to voting and economic achievement?
Black Codes
Large companies that controlled many aspects of production were known as
Monopolies
Concerned with crime and abuse, prohibition became the law of the land with what amendment in 1920?
18th
When America annexed this state, we paved the way for the Mexican American War as Mexico did not want to lose the territory.
Texas
The reason the South had the advantage of "better military leadership"
Robert E. Lee
What organization was created to aid former slaves in accessing basic needs as well as educational opportunities?
The Freedmen's Bureau
Immigrants fueled the work force of industrialization but they experienced hardship and dangerous work conditions. How were labor strikes met?
Most protests became violent and the government would often side with the companies being protested.
In order to allow citizens more access to change in government, what amendment was added in 1913 which allowed citizens to directly vote for their senators?
17th Amendment
California comes in as a free state, fugitive slave act is passed, sale of slaves outlawed in Washington, D.C., areas from Mexican Cession are allowed popular sovereignty
Compromise of 1850
This battle secured the area of the Mississippi River for the North
Vicksburg
The Compromise of 1877 was also known as a "corrupt bargain". Rutherford B. Hayes was given the presidency in exchange for what?
U.S. troops removed from the South.
Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall in NYC is an example of a
Political machine
After over 100 years of work from women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul and Lucy Stone what amendment was passed in 1919?
The 19th Amendment