Foundational Matters
This compromise created a bicameral Congress with both equal and proportional representation.
What is the Great Compromise/ Connecticut Compromise?
This document outlined grievances against King George III.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The outcome of this battle prompted Lincoln to sign the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is Antietam?
This law was passed after publication of The Jungle.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
This 1848 gathering launched the Women's Rights movement.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
These opponents of the Constitution argued it lacked protections for individual liberties.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
He approved the sale of Louisiana after losing a war against Haitian rebels.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte? (Napoleon is acceptable.)
The most notorious Confederate prisoner of war camp.
What is Andersonville Prison?
This labor protest in Chicago turned violent in 1886.
What is the Haymarket Riot?
This conservationist president became known as a "trust buster."
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Marbury v. Madison established this principle of law in 1803.
What is judicial review?
This 1820 agreement admitted Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The nickname for destroyed railroad tracks left behind in the wake of Sherman's March to the Sea.
What are Sherman's Neckties?
This labor organization was founded by Samuel Gompers.
What is the AFL (American Federation of Labor)?
Jane Addams founded this institution that provided social services to immigrants and the urban poor.
What is Hull House?
Alexander Hamilton's plan included federal assumption of state debts and creation of this institution.
What is the First Bank of the United States?
This 1854 law effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise by allowing popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
These congressional Republicans advocated harsher Reconstruction policies than President Johnson.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
He sent federal troops to break up the Pullman Strike.
Who is President Grover Cleveland?
This movement sought to improve society through selective breeding and led to forced sterilization laws in many states.
What is eugenics?
This rebellion tested the authority of the new federal government during Washington's presidency.
What was the Whiskey Rebellion?
The Supreme Court Justice's opinion, from an 1857 case, included the claim that Congress lacked authority to prohibit slavery in territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
The approximate number of casualties in the Civil War.
What is 600,000?
This labor leader ran for president repeatedly as the Socialist Party candidate.
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
The 1911 fire at this New York factory killed 146 workers and sparked workplace safety reforms.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?