Key People
Key Events
Manifest Destiny
Sectionalism & the Civil War
Reconstruction
Gilded Age
Progressive Era
Rise of American Power
Connections to Today
Random Sauce
100
THIS JOURNALIST and “MUCKRAKER” exposed the harsh conditions in Chicago’s meatpacking industry in The Jungle.
Who is Upton Sinclair?
100
Thomas Jefferson orchestrated THIS PURCHASE in 1803 that doubled the size of the country at the time and gave the US access to the Mississippi river and the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
100
THIS was the belief that Americans were destined to expand across the North American continent?
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
THIS 1852 NOVEL by Harriet Beecher Stowe exposed the harsh realities of slavery and increased tensions between the North and South.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
100
THESE DISCRIMINATORY LAWS were enacted after Reconstruction ended and enforced racial segregation in public facilities in the South. They were upheld as constitutional by the Supreme Court's decision in Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896) which made "Separate, but Equal" the law of the land.
What are Jim Crow laws?
100
THIS TERM refers to large corporations that control entire industries, such as oil, steel, and railroads, which were common during the Gilded Age.
What are monopolies?
100
THIS 1911 INDUSTRIAL DISASTER led to the implementation of labor reforms, including safety regulations in factories.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?
100
The U.S. became involved in THIS INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT in 1917, helping to tip the balance in favor of the Allies (Great Britain, France, Russia) who had been fighting a brutal trench war with the Central Powers (German, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman Empires).
What is WWI?
100
The divide between the North and South over slavery and economic policy during the 1800s mirrors today’s polarization on THESE ISSUES.
Note - there are many acceptable answers for this question, just choose one and explain.
What is... (acceptable answers could include, but are not limited to)
Healthcare
Education
Gun control
Climate change
Immigration
Taxes
Civil rights
etc.
100
THIS 1863 SPEECH by Abraham Lincoln emphasized the preservation of the Union and the fight for freedom while commemorating a new national cemetery named after the location of the battle that took place there during the Civil War. It is well known as one of the most famous speeches in American history, despite only being 272 words long.
This speech also came after President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, which declared that enslaved people in the rebellious states were free.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
200
THIS U.S. PRESIDENT led the country during World War I and proposed the League of Nations in his Fourteen Points.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
200
The U.S. acquired California and much of the Southwest following THIS WAR.
What is the Mexican-American War?
200
THIS EVENT from US History is an example of Manifest Destiny.
Note - there are many acceptable answers we've covered this semester for this question.
What is the... (Answers could include, but are not limited to)
- Louisiana Purchase (1803)
- Indian Removal Act (1830)
- Annexation of Texas (1845)
- Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
- Homestead Act (1862)
- Transcontinental Railroad (completed in 1869)
- Alaska Purchase (1867)
- Dawes Act (1887)
- Annexation of Hawaii (1898)
- Spanish-American War (1898)
- Acquisition of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines (1898)
- Panama Canal Zone Acquisition (1904)
200
THIS LAW admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state to maintain the balance in the Senate.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
200
THESE LAWS, passed by Southern states during Reconstruction, restricted the rights of African Americans, limiting their freedom and economic opportunities.
What are Black Codes?
200
THESE OVERCROWDED, POORLY CONSTRUCTED APARTMENT BUILDINGS, often home to immigrant families in cities during the Gilded Age, were notorious for their unsanitary conditions and lack of ventilation.
What are tenements?
200
THIS 1906 ACT was passed in response to the shocking revelations in "The Jungle," creating regulations for the food and drug industries.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
200
THIS WAR, fought between 1898-1899, resulted in the U.S. gaining control of the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico. It was a turning point in history because it established the United States as an imperial world power.
What is the Spanish-American War?
200
What idea from US history best connects with the main idea of this infographic?
What is Manifest Destiny?
Acceptable answers: Westward Expansion and Imperialism
200
THIS POLICY of isolationism, practiced by the U.S. before its entry into World War I, aimed to keep the country out of European conflicts.
What is Neutrality?
300
THESE FOUR GILDED AGE INDUSTRIALISTS had monopolies over the following industries: Steel, Oil, Railroads, and Banking/Finance.
Who are Andrew Carnegie (Steel), John D. Rockefeller (Oil), Cornelius Vanderbilt (Railroads), and J.P. Morgan (Banking/Finance)?
300
THIS PASSENGER SHIP was sunk by a German U-boat in 1915, escalating tensions leading to U.S. involvement in World War I.
What is the Lusitania?
300
THIS ACT, passed in 1862, provided settlers with 160 acres of land if they improved it and lived on it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
300
THIS IDEA allowed territories to decide whether to allow slavery through a popular vote.
What is popular sovereignty?
300
THIS SYSTEM created a cycle of debt for poor farmers, and kept many African Americans tied to the land, often working for their previous slave masters, following the end the of the Civil War
What is Sharecropping?
300
THIS LAW, passed in 1882, restricted immigration from China, marking the first significant law to limit immigration based on nationality.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
300
THIS PRESIDENT, known for his "Square Deal," pushed for progressive reforms such as trust-busting and conservation during his time in office.
Who is Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt?
300
THIS PROJECT, completed in 1914, connected the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and greatly increased American influence in the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Panama Canal?
300
Today's public have differing views of the figures in this infographic and the effects they have on society. This debate reflects similar views to what figures of the Gilded Age?
Who are the Robber Barons or Captains of Industry?
300
THIS 1896 SUPREME COURT DECISION legalized racial segregation laws (I.e. "Jim Crow" laws) under the doctrine of "separate but equal." It remained the law of the land until Brown v. Board of Education (1954) which overturned the segregation of schools.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
400
THIS PROGRESSIVE REFORMER led efforts for women’s suffrage and was president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
400
THIS SUPREME COURT DECISION ruled that African Americans were not citizens and that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories. It was also a major cause of the Civil War.
What was the Dred Scott decision (1857)?
400
One of the consequences of Manifest Destiny was the passage of THIS LEGISLATION signed by Andrew Jackson. It caused the forced relocation of several Native American tribes, primarily the Cherokee, from their ancestral lands in the Southeastern United States to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma).
What is the Indian Removal Act (1830)?
I will also accept Trail of Tears.
400
THIS ACT, passed in 1854, allowed the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether to allow slavery through popular sovereignty. The passage of the Act led to violent conflicts in Kansas, known as Bleeding Kansas.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
400
THESE Reconstruction Amendments abolished slavery, gave African Americans citizenship rights and equal protection of the law, as well as voting rights to African American men aged 21 and older.
(You must also say which amendment did what to earn credit)
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
400
THESE COMMUNITY CENTERS, like Jane Addams' Hull House in Chicago, were established in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to provide social services, education, and support for immigrants and the poor.
What are settlement houses?
400
THIS 1890 LAW was passed to break up monopolies and prevent anti-competitive business practices during the Gilded Age.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
400
THIS EVENT, often seen as the final catalyst for American involvement in World War I, occurred when Germany tried to encourage Mexico to fight the U.S. in exchange for territory.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
400
Modern-day protests by Amazon and Starbucks employees calling for higher wages and better working conditions echoes THESE TWO labor strikes and riots of the Gilded Age.
(There are more than two, but you only need to name two.)
What are the... (answers could include, but are not limited to)
Haymarket Riot (1886)
Homestead Strike (1892)
Pullman Strike (1894)
Ludlow Massacre (1914)
400
This essay written by Andrew Carnegie in 1889 outlined his belief that the wealthy had a moral obligation to use their fortunes to benefit society.
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
500
THESE TWO AFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERS had disagreements about how African Americans should gain political rights. One leader believed African Americans should focus on vocational education and economic self-reliance before demanding political rights, and the other leader co-founded the NAACP in 1909 and advocated for immediate civil rights and higher education for African Americans.
Who was Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois?
500
THIS POLICY, promoted by Secretary of State John Hay, aimed to ensure equal trading rights for all nations in China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
500
Manifest Destiny is considered a justification for THIS POLICY of U.S. expansion into foreign territories.
(Hint: European empires had been engaging in this policy since the 15th Century.)
ADDITIONALLY, NAME 3 foreign territories the US acquired as a result of this policy.
What is imperialism?
What is Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines
I would also accept Cuba (U.S. established a military government and later influenced Cuban affairs through the Platt Amendment; Cuba became an independent country in 1902 but remained under U.S. influence)
500
THIS LAW, part of the Compromise of 1850, required citizens to assist in the capture and return of runaway enslaved people.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
500
THIS U.S. PRESIDENT succeeded Abraham Lincoln and was impeached by the House of Representatives, but was acquitted by the Senate. He favored a lenient approach that focused on quickly reintegrating the South, with little concern for protecting the rights of African Americans.
His opponents in Congress, the Radical Republicans, believed in granting full rights to freed African Americans and punishing Southern elites.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
500
THIS MUCKRAKING JOURNALIST and photographer exposed the harsh living conditions in New York City's tenements with his book How the Other Half Lives, sparking public awareness and reform.
Who is Jacob Riis?
500
THESE PROGRESSIVE ERA AMENDMENTS did the following:
1. Created the federal income tax
2. Allowed the direct election of senators
3. Prohibition (banned the manufacture, sale, or transport of alcohol)
4. Women's suffrage (right to vote)
(You must also say which amendment did what to earn credit)
What are the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Amendments?
Note: the 18th Amendment was repealed in 1933 with the ratification of the 21st Amendment
500
In 1893, American business interests, particularly those involved in the sugar industry, played a significant role in THIS EVENT, which led to the overthrow of Queen Liliʻuokalani, the leader of this overseas territory.
What is the annexation of Hawaii?
500
THESE TWO FACTORS contributed to the rapid growth of cities (urbanization) and high levels of immigration during the Gilded Age.
(There are more than two factors, but you only need to name two)
What are...
- Industrialization – The rise of factories and mass production created job opportunities in cities.
- Technological advancements – Inventions like the elevator and steel-frame construction allowed for the building of skyscrapers, enabling cities to grow vertically.
- Transportation improvements – Development of streetcars, subways, and railroads made cities more accessible and livable. Advances in steamship technology also reduced the cost and time of travel, making it easier for people to emigrate.
- Increased agricultural productivity – Mechanization of farming reduced the need for rural labor, pushing people toward urban centers for jobs.
- Economic opportunities – Higher wages in industrial jobs compared to rural or agricultural work attracted both domestic and foreign workers.
- Cultural amenities – Cities offered entertainment, education, and cultural institutions, drawing people seeking a higher standard of living.
- Political and religious freedom – Many immigrants, especially from Southern and Eastern Europe, fled political unrest or religious persecution (e.g., Russian Jews escaping pogroms).