The first Black senator from Mississippi
Who is Hiram Revels?
Daily Double: Whose seat did he replace?
This antebellum president sent an emissary to Mexico to purchase California, but the government of Mexico refused
Who is James Polk?
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?
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?
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?
He was the President of the Confederate states
Who is Jefferson Davis?
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?
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?
According to this judicial ethos, governments and unions had no right to interfere with working conditions
What is liberty of contract?
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?
This federal program would attempt to raise the social political and economic conditions of Blacks and poor whites
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This former governor of Tennessee went onto become president and was a fierce supporter of the annexation of Texas
Who is James Polk?
This hyper-masculine hunting, conservationist, guy thought imperialism would restore national strength and identity from the Panic of 1893
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
What is a a yellow dog contract?
He rejected the Medicine Creek Lodge Treaty and founded the Native American Church which used peyote as a "sacrament"
Who is Quanah Parker?
They claimed in the 1870s to have converted the White South from corruption, misgovernment, and northern and black control?
What are Redeemers?
Why were Americans moving to Texas before the Civil War?
What is to expand the Cotton Kingdom?
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?
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?
Leader of the Nez Perce of Wallowa Valley, Oregon who said "treat all men alike, give them the same law"
Who is Chief Joseph?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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)?
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)?
Democratic journalist was the author of Manifest Destiny
Who is John O'Sullivan?
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?
This area was known as the heartland of the second Industrial Revolution
What are the Great Lakes region? (Pittsburgh, Chicago, etc)
This Supreme Court can in 1903 stated that Congress can cancel any treaty with Native American tribes
What is Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock?