CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR
This issue divided the North and South over economic and moral differences.
What is slavery?
This battle marked the beginning of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
This captain of industry built a monopoly in the oil industry through Standard Oil.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This event triggered the Great Depression.
What is the Stock Market Crash of 1929?
This policy aimed to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment?
This compromise kept balance by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This document freed enslaved people in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This business leader used vertical integration to control the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
These programs were created by FDR to help the economy recover.
What is the New Deal?
This war was fought to stop communism in Southeast Asia.
What is the Vietnam War?
This law required citizens to return escaped enslaved people to the South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
These amendments ended slavery, granted citizenship, and protected voting rights.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
This strike showed conflict between workers and big business when federal troops were used.
What is the Pullman Strike?
This attack brought the United States into World War II.
What is Pearl Harbor?
This movement worked to end segregation and gain equal rights.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
This act led to violence in “Bleeding Kansas” by allowing popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This organization helped formerly enslaved people with education and jobs.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This law was created to break up monopolies and restore competition.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This program helped WWII veterans attend college and buy homes.
What is the GI Bill?
This Supreme Court case ended segregation in public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
These laws limited the rights of African Americans after the Civil War.
What are Black Codes?
This group exposed problems in society and pushed for Progressive reforms.
Who are the muckrakers?
This plan provided aid to rebuild Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This event symbolized the end of the Cold War.
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?