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The main goal of the Woman's Suffrage Movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
What is to gain the right to vote for women
Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant on April 9th, 1865. Where did the surrender take place?
What is the Appomattox Court House?
During the Progressive Era, muckrakers sought to...
fight corruption in American society by publicly exposing it
During the late 1800's, the term Robber Baron best defined a person who...
used ruthless business tactics.
Suffrage can be defined as...
the right to vote
Who was the only president of the confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
Which constitutional principle was the main focus of the North-South conflicts that led to the Civil War?
States' rights
What is the practice of forced labor under harsh conditions called?
slavery
What did the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 require people to do?
return runaway slaves to their owners
A major cause of the Civil War was...
the succession of the southern states
Which was a major concern of Theodore Roosevelt to the reform movement of the early 20th century?
his success as a leader of conservationism
Abraham Lincoln signed a document that declared all of the slaves in the Confederacy free. What is this document called?
The Emancipation Proclamation
How did Harriet Beecher Stowe convince people in the North to stand up against slavery?
She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
What was the main goal of the North during the Civil War?
To preserve the Union
Abolitionists were people who...
wanted to end slavery
Black Codes were established in the South immediately after the Civil War in an effort to..
limit the rights of newly freed African Americans
Which was a major result of the Homestead Act of 1862?
increased development of Western lands
The fight over slavery led to...
the Civil War
A major concern of the Progessives was to...
improve social and economic conditions
What is the practice of forced labor under harsh conditions called?
Slavery