United States Before the Civil War
This political party was known for its anti-immigrant beliefs in the 1850s.
What is the Know-Nothing Party?
This compromise created a balance between free and slave states by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This was Abraham Lincoln’s plan for bringing Southern states back into the Union quickly after the Civil War.
What is the Ten Percent Plan?
This law encouraged settlement in the West by giving 160 acres of land to settlers who agreed to farm it.
What is the Homestead Act?
These two immigration stations processed immigrants entering the United States from Europe and Asia.
What are Ellis Island and Angel Island?
This organization supported sending free Black Americans to Africa.
What is the American Colonization Society?
This term refers to the violent conflict over whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free or slave state.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This group in Congress wanted strict requirements for Southern states and strong protections for formerly enslaved people.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
This major silver discovery in Nevada brought thousands of miners and wealth to the region.
What is the Comstock Lode?
This law was designed to prevent monopolies and promote fair competition in business.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
These two Americans founded the first Black-owned newspaper in the United States, Freedom’s Journal, in 1827.
Who are Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm?
This law required citizens to assist in capturing and returning escaped enslaved people to their enslavers.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Identify the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.
What are the amendments that abolished slavery, granted citizenship to all born or naturalized in the U.S., and gave Black men the right to vote?
This event marked the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in 1869.
What is Promontory Summit, Utah?
This law, passed in 1882, severely restricted Chinese immigration to the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This 1848 convention in New York launched the women’s rights movement in the United States.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
This Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans were not citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This system kept many Southern farmers in debt by requiring them to rent land and pay landowners with a percent of their crops.
What is sharecropping?
This term describes a farmer who plowed and farmed the tough Great Plains soil during westward expansion.
What is a sodbuster?
These two events led to the United States entering World War I.
What are unrestricted submarine warfare and the Zimmermann Telegram?
This abolitionist founded the newspaper The Liberator.
What is William Lloyd Garrison’s newspaper The Liberator?
This political party formed in 1860 tried to avoid conflict over slavery by supporting compromise and preserving the Union.
What is the Constitutional Union Party?
He was criticized for opposing civil rights protections for freed African Americans and for being too lenient toward the South during Reconstruction.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This 1911 disaster led to major labor reforms after many young immigrant women died in a New York City garment factory fire.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
Identify the candidates, their parties, and who won the election of 1912.
Who are Woodrow Wilson (Democratic Party, winner), William Howard Taft (Republican Party), Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive “Bull Moose” Party), and Eugene V. Debs (Socialist Party)?