Reconstruction
Slavery Psychosis
Imperial Rain
Gilded Cage
"Railroaded"
100

The first Black senator from Mississippi

Who is Hiram Revels?

Daily Double: Whose seat did he replace?


100

This antebellum president sent an emissary to Mexico to purchase California, but the government of Mexico refused

Who is James Polk?

100

This poem glorified Anglo-Saxon supremacy over the planet and begrudging responsibilities that came with it...author of "The Jungle Book"

What is The White Man's Burden?


100

William Graham Sumner united the forces of Protestant Work Ethic, classical competitive economics and Darwin's natural selection to create this Gilded Age Gospel

What is Social Darwinism?

100

In 1862, this legislation gave the railroads 175 million acres of public lands to Union Pacific and Central Pacific. 

What is the Pacific Railway Act of 1862?

200

He was the President of the Confederate states

Who is Jefferson Davis?

200

The dream of annexing Canada was on the mind of this president during his campaign for election with the motto 54'40' or fight!

Who is James Polk?

200

According to this foreign policy, Americans could invade Latin American nations to collect debts when they had defaulted on American loans 

What is the Roosevelt Corollary? 

200

According to this judicial ethos, governments and unions had no right to interfere with working conditions

What is liberty of contract?

200

Also known as the Great Sioux Uprising, this battle resulted in the largest public hanging in US History (38 executed)

What is the Dakota War of 1862?

300

This federal program would attempt to raise the social political and economic conditions of Blacks and poor whites

What is the Freedmen's Bureau?

300

This former governor of Tennessee went onto become president and was a fierce supporter of the annexation of Texas

Who is James Polk?


300

This hyper-masculine hunting, conservationist, guy thought imperialism would restore national strength and identity from the Panic of 1893

Who is Theodore Roosevelt?

300
If you wish to work here, then you must sign this loyalty oath in which you swear you will never join a union or you will be blacklisted

What is a a yellow dog contract?

300

He rejected the Medicine Creek Lodge Treaty and founded the Native American Church which used peyote as a "sacrament"

Who is Quanah Parker?

400

They claimed in the 1870s to have converted the White South from corruption, misgovernment, and northern and black control?

What are Redeemers?

400

Why were Americans moving to Texas before the Civil War?

What is to expand the Cotton Kingdom?

400

This international policy was arguably America's diplomatic declaration of independence by telling European nations "stay out of our backyard"

What is the Monroe Doctrine?

400

After Chicago police shot and killed two workers during the McCormack strike, anarchist swore revenge and then a bomb was dropped. Name this event

What is the Haymarket Affair?

400

Leader of the Nez Perce of Wallowa Valley, Oregon who said "treat all men alike, give them the same law"

Who is Chief Joseph?

500

The Colfax Massacre, a contested election between Republicans and Democrats in 1872, led to this Supreme Court ruling that invalidated the 14th Amendment concerning the protections of individual rights

What is United States v. Cruikshank (1876)?

Daily Double: This case essentially neutralized which law?

500

Senator from South Carolina defended slavery as an institution that is for betterment of African Americans

Who is John Calhoun?

Bonus: He defied President Jackson over what?


500

Secretary of State under James Monroe stated Cuba was a natural appendage to the United States and was the primary architect of the Monroe Doctrine

Who is John Quincy Adams?

500

He plundered the city of New York tens of millions of dollars, and won the immigrant's poor support by providing them a private welfare system

Who is William "Boss" Tweed?

500

This law broke up the land of all tribes into small parcels to be distributed to Native American families with the remainder auctioned off to white purchasers

What is the Dawes Act of 1887?

600

This compromise involved the removal of federal troops from the South and the handing over of Florida, South Carolina and Louisiana to the Democrats

What is the Compromise of 1877 or the Tilden-Hayes Compromise?

600

He served the House of Representatives sought to prohibit the influx of any more slaves into Missouri in an amendment to the bill for Missouri Statehood

Who is James Tallmadge?


600

Republican senator from Indiana and Christian Imperialist stated it was the United States "God-given right" to rule over Cuba in his March of the Flag speech

Who is Albert Beveridge?


600

By the time the wave of corporate mergers was complete, US Steel, Standard Oil and this agricultural firm dominated the US economy during the Gilded Age

What is International Harvester?

600

This Supreme Court case in 1887 stated that citizenship rights like the 14th and 15th Amendments do not apply to Native Americans

What is Elk v. Wilkins (1884)?

700

Butchers were forced to work for a monopoly The Crescent City Livestock Landing and Slaughterhouse Company, and the Supreme Court ruled in the company's favor that 14th Amendment protections do not provide protections from state actions.

What are the Slaughterhouse Cases (1873)?

700

Democratic journalist was the author of Manifest Destiny

Who is John O'Sullivan?

700

This was a legislative rider that was imposed on Cuba that gave the United States semi-colonial control until 1934 of the island nation and the establishment of Guantanamo Bay military base

What is the Platt Amendment?

700

This area was known as the heartland of the second Industrial Revolution

What are the Great Lakes region? (Pittsburgh, Chicago, etc)

700

This Supreme Court can in 1903 stated that Congress can cancel any treaty with Native American tribes

What is Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock?

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