Civil War
Reconstruction
Westward Expansion
Industrial Revolution
Immigration/Urbanization
100

This new law enraged Northern Abolitionists as it forced them to return anyone believed to be a run-away slave to the South.

Fugitive Slave Act
100

After Abraham Lincoln's assassination, he became one of the worst presidents in American history.

Andrew Johnson

100

This major railroad project linked existing railroads in Omaha to a new terminus in San Francisco and met in the middle at Promontory Point, Utah.

The Transcontinental Railroad

100

This inventor is known for creating the first commercially viable lightbulb.

Thomas Edison

100

This is an institution that uses corruption and voter fraud to stay in power and steal taxpayer money.

Political Machine

200

The Kansas-Nebraska promoted this concept, which allowed a territory's residents to vote on whether they would enter the Union as a free or slave state.

Popular Sovereignty

200

Angry with the leniency the President showed to Confederates, this small group of Congressman took over Reconstruction policy.

Radical Republicans

200

Native American tribes were rounded up and placed on these federally allocated lands.

Reservations

200

This form of monopoly building happens when corporations buy up smaller companies that make the same product.

Horizontal Integration
200

This is the immigration station for most Asian immigrants entering San Francisco.

Angel Island

300

This famous Supreme Court Case argued that a slave was always a slave--regardless of what state he resided in--thereby destroying the entire concept of a "free" state.

Dred Scott v Sandford

300

Similar to the Black Codes, Southern legislatures created these laws in order to limit African Americans' freedom and enforce strict segregation of the races.

Jim Crow laws

300

This effort to forcefully assimilate Native American children was built on the premise "Kill the Indian, save the Man."

Indian Boarding Schools

300

This form of monopoly building happens when a corporation buy businesses at various levels of production process: from raw materials, to manufacturing, to transportation and distribution.

Vertical Integration

300

A bomb was set off at this rally to protest police brutality during strikes; this also led to the marked decline in popularity of the Knights of Labor.

Haymarket Riot

400

Despite its current popular mythology, this executive order did NOT free the slaves.

Emancipation Proclamation

400

This Reconstruction Amendment granted citizenship to all born in the United States--except Native Americans--and extended the protections of the Bill of Rights to all states.

The 14th Amendment

400

This law provide 160 acres of land to settlers willing to "improve" (farm) the land for 5 years.

The Homestead Act

400

This industrialist is best known for having a monopoly on steel production.

Andrew Carnegie

400

Carnegie's attempts to destroy the Unions at his Steel Works in Pennsylvania led to this strike, which ended in violence when workers clashed with state militia.

Homestead Strike

500
This military strategy sought to blockade Southern ports in order to strangle the Southern economy, which had little manufacturing capacity.

The Anaconda Plan

500

This event officially ended Reconstruction.

The Compromise of 1877 (The Hayes Compromise)

500

This was the political party created by the Grangers and Farmers Alliance that sought to promote legislate such as the graduated income tax, government ownership of railroads, and bimetallism.

The Populist Party

500

This industrialist is best known for having a monopoly on oil refining.

John D. Rockefeller

500

This was the first national labor strike and led to a boycott of trains that carried luxury sleeping cars and showed the downside of working for a corporation that offered workers company towns to live and shop in.

The Pullman Strike

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