African-Americans
Railroads
Abraham Lincoln
Populism
Miscellaneous
100
This enslaved African-American was ruled ineligible to sue for his freedom in Court, leading Lincoln to deliver his famous "House Divided" speech.
Who is Dred Scott?
100
This ethnic group was the subject of a major anti-immigration law, passed in 1882
What is the Chinese?
100
This proclamation was issued in 1863 to free enslaved people in most Southern states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
People in these jobs were the main agitators for regulation of the railroad industry.
What is farming/agriculture?
100
According to the documents we examined in class, Chinese immigrants were most likely to be opposed by these ethnic groups.
What is Irish and German?
200
Southern whites put these laws into place after the Civil War, as an attempt to keep freedmen under their control.
What is the Black Codes?
200
The Interstate Commerce Act was passed after the Supreme Court ruled that Illinois could not do this in the Wabash case.
What is set prices for the railroads?
200
This Tennessee Democrat was chosen as Lincoln's running mate in 1864, to show his commitment to reunification.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
200
This is the reason that Congress decided to act on the Interstate Commerce Act in 1887.
What is citizen activism/organizing?
200
This term for Northerners who worked in the South during Reconstruction comes from a common type of bag.
What is carpetbaggers?
300
This federal agency (or bureau) provided to support to freed slaves during Reconstruction.
What is the freedman's bureau?
300
Congress was able to pass pro-business legislation during the Civil War mainly for this reason.
What is the secession of Southern states?
300
Lincoln's reconstruction plan would have admitted confederate states when this percentage of its voters pledged a loyalty oath.
What is 10%?
300
As a political movement, populism sides with _____, instead of elite interests.
What is the common man?
300
Radical Republicans in Congress were likely to disagree with Presidential reconstruction plans for this reason.
What is they didn't go far enough in punishing the South.
400
The 15th amendment is important because it grants this right to all men born in the United States
What is suffrage, or the right to vote?
400
This type of commerce can only be regulated by the federal government, according to the Constitution's commerce clause.
What is interstate commerce?
400
This man shot Lincoln in Ford's Theater, just a few days after the end of the Civil War.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
400
This Democrat was endorsed by Populists in the election of 1896
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
400
This California mountain range proved especially difficult to build railroads through.
What is the Sierra Nevadas?
500
This Massachusetts-born historian was the first Black man to earn a doctoral degree from Harvard University.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
500
This is the primary reason that citizens believed that railroads should be regulated by the government.
What is they were built with public money?
500
This man defeated Lincoln for the Senate seat from Illinois in 1858, before Lincoln beat him for the Presidency in 1860.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
500
This organization of farmers was founded in 1867 to advocate for the needs of agricultural workers in the U.S.
What is the Grange (or the Patrons of Husbandry)?
500
Populists argued for this standard in currency, which would allow the U.S. to print more money.
What is the silver standard?
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