Officially abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
100
When one is loyal to their region. Slavery was a cause of this.
What is Sectionalism?
100
This group of people hated immigrants and passed laws to limit or stop immigration.
What are the Nativists?
100
This is when citizens participate in government.
What is a Democracy?
100
This branch of government enforces the law.
What is the Executive Branch?
200
While blacks were freed/emancipated after the Civil War, this practice essentially still tied them both to the land and under the power of white landlords.
What is sharecropping?
200
Southern states began to secede because this man was elected president in 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincolon?
200
Organizations put in place to help workers get better wages and work less hours.
What are Labor Unions?
200
First document the United States used that did not give the federal government much power, overall was ineffective.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
200
This branch of government is made up of the Senate and House of Representatives.
What is the Legislative Branch?
300
The _________________________ guaranteed every citizen equality before the law by prohibiting states from violating the civil rights of their citizens, thus outlawing the black codes.
What is the 14th amendment?
300
This piece of legislation prohibited slavery above the 36 30 line of latitude.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
300
Immigrants from Europe and Asia moved to these areas in search of higher wages and an improved economic and social outlook.
What are cities?
Also acceptable: What are urban areas?
300
Agreement that called for two houses in congress to address representation by the states in federal government.
What is the Great Compromise?
300
A form of government in which representatives are elected by the people.
What is a Republic?
400
Set of laws that were used in the South to limit African-American participation in voting.
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
400
The decision of this Supreme Court case repealed the Missouri Compromise and made it unconstitutional to prohibit slavery.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
400
These men are considered to be cheats, bad businessmen who only care about getting rich.
Who are Robber Barons?
400
A division of power between a federal government and the states.
What is federalism?
400
Congress uses this to extend their power when necessary and proper.
What is the Elastic Clause?
500
This president was elected in 1877 and removed federal troops from the South, officially ending reconstruction.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
500
These debates made Lincoln extremely popular as a republican candidate to run for President.
What are the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
500
This was the first nationwide labor union.
What is the Knights of Labor?
500
This event was stopped by George Washington showing that the U.S. Constitution gave the federal government sufficient power.
What is the Whiskey Rebellion?
500
Sending American troops into a foreign country illustrates a power held by the