Events
How many Texan Defenders died during a two week siege at the Alamo?
200
The most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad was...
Harriet Tubman.
What is doing what is best in the interest for a region of the country but not the country as a whole?
Sectionalism
Westward Expansion made people move westward and the United States grew which caused the debate over what to intensify
slavery
What was the name of the treaty that ended the war with Mexico?
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case...
ruled Congress could not limit or ban slavery in the territories.
What Confederate general surrendered at Appomattox Court House?
Robert E. Lee
What was the Kansas- Nebraska Act?
When people had popular sovereignty to decide whether Kansas and Nebraska would be a slave or free state.
What was a network of houses and other places that abolitionists used to help slaves escape to freedom?
Underground Railroad
___________________________ was the first state to secede from the Union in 1861.
South Carolina
John Brown’s intention in raiding the arsenal of Harpers Ferry was to arm...
enslaved people and begin a slave revolt against slaveholders.
Who became president after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
Andrew Johnson
The Emancipation Proclamation...
decreed freedom for all enslaved people in areas still in rebellion against the Union.
What was sharecropping?
To maintain slavery and to have cheap labor supply
This event marked the beginning of the Civil War?
attack on Fort Sumter
What was the Compromise of 1877?
President Hayes becomes president and he takes federal troops out of the South
After the Civil War, Congress established this organization to help feed and clothe war refugees in the South using surplus military supplies.
Freedman’s Bureau
What laws were passed during the Reconstruction era to put limits on African Americans?
Jim Crow laws and Black Codes
When was Hawaii Annexed?
1898
What war helped America imperialize Carribean and South Pacific Islands?
Spanish American War
What was Lincolns plan for Reconstruction called?
10% Plan
Who was president during the Gilded Age?
Teddy Roosevelt
a negative term used to describe the powerful 19th century businessmen or bankers who used questionable or unethical practices to become wealthy or powerful.
Robber Baron
What invention helped with cotton production?
What treaty ended the Spanish American War?
Treaty of Paris (again)