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Quotables
100
The belief that the United States had a God-given right to control the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
100
This abolitionist led a raid on Harpers' Ferry in what is now West Virginia.
Who is John Brown?
100
This Reconstruction-era amendment is back in the news because of the phrase "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."
What is the 14th Amendment?
100
Chicago hosted a World's Fair in 1892 to celebrate the 400th Anniversary of this person's arrival in the New World.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
"Sic semper tyrannus"
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
200
This campaign slogan by President Polk related to the contest between Britain and the United States over what Oregon's border should be.
What is 54-40 or Fight! ?
200
The Union's victory in this battle gave Lincoln the political cover to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
200
This was the name southerners had for Southern Unionists.
What is Scalawags?
200
Buying up all of your competitors (for example, an oil refinery buying up all of your rivals' oil refineries) is an example of this.
What is horizontal integration?
200
"It would be nice to have God on my side, but I must have Kentucky."
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
The territory outlined in red is referred to as this.
What is the Mexican Cession?
300
This major southern city was burned to the ground during Sherman's March to the Sea.
What is Atlanta?
300
The Slaughterhouse Cases, a series of cases that limited the application of the 14th Amendment, dealt with butchers in this southern city.
What is New Orleans?
300
Buying up the entire process of producing and selling a product to avoid any middle men (for example, buying mines, steel mills, and steel construction companies) is an example of this.
What is vertical integration?
300
"Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!"
Who is Sam Houston?
400
This city massively developed as it stood as the gate to California's gold rush in 1849.
What is San Francisco?
400
This state was the first to secede from the Union after Abraham Lincoln's election.
What is South Carolina?
400
Andrew Johnson's impeachment stemmed from his violation of this (likely unconstitutional) law passed by Congress.
What is the Tenure of Office Act?
400
Industrialists spent between $3.5 million and $16.5 million to help support William McKinley's presidential campaign against this person.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
400
"The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced."
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
500
In 1872, John Gast painted this painting.
What is American Progress?
500
Members of Congress showed up to watch what they thought would be this last battle of the war but that turned out to be one of the first major battles of the Civil War.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)?
500
In 1898, white supremacists rioted and overthrew the duly elected biracial city government of this place.
What is Wilmington, NC?
500
This was the detective agency, more powerful than the Union Army at the time, hired to help put down the Homestead Steel Strike.
Who are the Pinkertons?
500
"We think [people of African ancestry] are not, and that they are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word "citizens" in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States…" (You can answer either with the justice or the Supreme Court case)
Who is Roger Taney?
OR
What is the Dred Scott decision?