This is the term for the idea that it was the nation's duty to control all territory from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
What is manifest destiny?
100
John C Calhoun supported this idea that a state should have the power to refuse to enforce a law it saw as unconstitutional.
What is nullification?
100
This is the name of the first federal relief agency in US history. It provided clothes, medical attention, food, education and land to African Americans coming out of slavery.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
100
This 19th century would not have been possible without the help of Chinese immigrants.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
100
This is the name for the immigrant processing station that was created in New York in 1892.
What is Ellis Island?
200
This is the name for the person that invented the cotton gin and introduced the idea of interchangeable parts for muskets.
Who was Eli Whitney?
200
The Civil War began when Confederates opened fire on this Union fort on April 12, 1861.
What is Fort Sumter?
200
This amendment to the US Constitution reversed the Dred Scott decision and guaranteed that no citizen (regardless of race) would be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
200
In addition to the light bulb, Thomas Edison invented these 2 innovations that greatly impacted how people lived.
What are the phonograph and the motion picture camera?
200
Around the late 18th and early 19th centuries, most immigrants to the US came from these locations.
What are eastern and southern Europe?
300
This is the name for the conflict that led to the United States acquisition of a large portion of territory which included modern day California, New Mexico and Arizona.
What is the Mexican-American War?
300
This supreme court decision in 1857 said negroes were considered property, and heightened tensions between north and south.
What is the Dred Scott case?
300
As a part of this agreement, federal troops were removed from the South in exchange for Southern support for the Republican candidate for presidency in the 1876 election.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
300
John D. Rockefeller became rich in the oil business; his company, Standard Oil, was the nation's first one of these.
What is a trust? (monopoly)
300
This battle, in 1890, was the last formal confrontation between Native Americans and the US government.
What is Wounded Knee?
400
This president introduced the spoils system, supported the Indian Removal Act, and is known as the father of the modern Democratic party.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
400
This was the name for the commander of Union troops during the Civil War. He later became president.
Who was Ulysses S Grant?
400
Under this practice, families farmed a portion of the white landowner's land in exchange for housing and a share of the crop. In many cases, this system differed little from slavery.
What is sharecropping?
400
These made a significant impact on industrial growth and expansion in the US following the Civil War.
What are railroads?
400
Samuel Gompers was the leader of the American Federation of Labor, which remains one of the nation's most influential one of these.
What is a union?
500
This man is known as the father of the common school. He advocated education reform during the 19th century.
Who was Horace Mann?
500
This battle was considered a turning point in the Civil War. This was the second, and last time, Lee's army would attempt to invade the north.
What is Gettysburg?
500
This is the name of one of the colleges established during Reconstruction to help blacks obtain higher education.
What is Morehouse College?
500
Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and Cornelius Vanderbilt, got rich for their dealings with the railroad industry. Their companies were known as this term that refers to large corporations.
What is big business?
500
This was the first strike in which the federal government intervened.