Civil War Era 1
This 1854 act allowed settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to decide on slavery themselves, effectively repealing the Missouri Compromise and leading to violent conflict.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
He was the Union general who accepted Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House in 1865.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Completed in 1914, this waterway linked the Atlantic and Pacific, vastly speeding global trade.
What is the Panama Canal?
The 1898 war between the United States and this country resulted in the U.S. acquiring Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.
What is Spain?
As part of his "Big Stick" diplomacy, this U.S. president greatly expanded the Navy, turning it into a global force with the 1907–1909 world tour of the Great White Fleet.
Who is Teddy (Theodore) Roosevelt?
This compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state to maintain balance in the Senate.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This 1863 battle, considered the turning point of the Civil War, was fought over three days in Pennsylvania and ended with Pickett’s Charge.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This 1863 executive order freed slaves in the Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclomation?
This U.S. policy, initiated in 1899, aimed to ensure equal trading rights in China and prevent monopolization by European powers.
What is the Open Door Policy?
This U.S. policy, introduced in 1823, warned European nations not to interfere in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This 1857 Supreme Court decision ruled that African Americans could not be U.S. citizens.
What is the Dredd Scott Decision (Case)?
This man tried to start a slave rebellion in 1859 by attacking a U.S. weapons storage sight.
Who is John Brown?
This 1917 agreement between Germany and Mexico promised U.S. territory in exchange for alliance.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
This 1904 policy addition to the Monroe Doctrine asserted the U.S.'s right to intervene in Latin America to stabilize economic affairs.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
In 1898, this brief conflict marked the United States’ emergence as a global power, leading to U.S. control of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This Union general’s March to the Sea devastated the South’s infrastructure and morale in 1864.
Who is General William Tecumseh Sherman?
This compromise admitted California as a free state, made the Fugitive Slave Law, and left the question of slavery in the territories of New Mexico and Utah to popular sovereignty.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This violent 1856 event saw pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces clash in the Kansas Territory, earning the region a bloody nickname.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
In 1917, this U.S. policy statement declared that America would support the independence of small nations and promote democracy, setting the ideological stage for its involvement in World War I
What are Wilson’s Fourteen Points?
This 1907–1909 naval mission demonstrated U.S. military power and global reach, as a fleet of American battleships toured the world.
What is the Voyage of the Great White Fleet?
This Union victory in July 1863 gave the North control of the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy in two, fulfilling a major part of the Anaconda Plan.
What is the battle of Vicksburg?
This 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe exposed the horrors of slavery to a wide audience and intensified sectional tensions between North and South.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This 1901 amendment gave the U.S. the right to intervene in Cuban affairs and established terms for the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay.
What is the Platt Amendment?
This 1917 battle was a defining moment for Canadian national identity, where Canadian forces captured a strategically important ridge in France.
What is the Battle of Vimy Ridge?
Canada played a key role in this 1899–1902 conflict, sending troops to support Britain in South Africa, marking its first major military involvement overseas.
What is the Second Boer War?