People
Antebellum
War and Reconstruction
The Gilded Age
Misc.
100

His Civil War strategy was to assail the enemy’s armies simultaneously, massively, and directly, causing mass Union casualties

Who is US Grant

100

This major Supreme Court case issued a broad judicial decision ruling that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the federal territories

What is Dred Scott

100

These TWO major battles were fought on Union soil

What are Gettysburg and Antietam

100

This landmark Supreme Court case ruled that “separate but equal” public schools and facilities were constitutional under the “equal protection”clause of the 14th Amendment

What is Plessy v. Ferguson

100

The view that God had ordained the growth of an American nation stretching across North America was called

What is manifest destiny

200

His tactic of vertical integration ensured he controlled all the means of production, increasing profits

Who is Andrew Carnegie

200

This political party was anti-foreign

What is the Know-Nothing Party

200

Name TWO parts of the Anaconda Plan

What is controlling the Mississippi, blockade, freeing the slaves, capturing Richmond, bringing the war to the South

200

This was the greatest change brought about in the lives of workers as a result of the industrial revolution. Now we take it for granted.

What is having to adjust their lives to the clock

200

This idea fit in with the democratic tradition of self-determination

What is popular soveriegnty

300

He was the champion of the idea of popular sovereignty 

Who is Stephen Douglas

300

Many people opposed the annexation of Texas for this reason; it was quite controversial

What is it might give the slave states more power

300

The main purpose of these was to ensure a stable and subservient labor supply

What are Black Codes

300

This election was the last time a serious effort to win the White House would be made with mostly agrarian votes

What is the election of 1896

300

Name given to Northerners such as teachers and ministers who traveled the South after the war to aid freedmen

Who are carpetbaggers

400

He promoted black economic self-help and development of skills in agriculture and the industrial trades, but did not challenge segregation directly

Who is Booker T. Washington

400

In the 1840's, most politicians avoided this subject because it was so controversial

What is slavery

400

The goal of this organization was to “keep blacks in their place”; that is, be subservient to whites, prevent blacks from voting, and to keep white “carpetbaggers” from voting

Who is the KKK

400
This act required taking a competitive exam before receiving a government job, effectively ending the spoils system

What is the Pendleton Act

400

This act forced Native Americans to give up their tribal organization and own 160 acres. The rest of the land, millions of acres, the US government took

What is the Dawes Act

500

This woman actively lobbied for social reforms like anti-sweatshop laws, and child labor laws. She is often upheld as an example of people helping the urban immigrant population

Who is Jane Addams

500

This was the most enduring result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

What is the creation of the Republican Party

500

These called for the temporary Union military supervision of the ex-Confederacy

What are the Reconstruction Acts

500

This was the first federal regulatory agency designed to protect the public interest from business

What is the ICC (not the FCC that won't let me be)

500

The election of 1844 was really a mandate over this central 1840's topic

What is expansionism

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