Antebellum
What Compromise made California and Maine states
Compromise of 1850
What South Carolina fort was the first to be fired upon starting the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
What was the result of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
What was the problem with the reservation system for Native Americans?
White men hardly kept their promises.
What group demanded unlimited coinage of Gold and Silver as part of the 1892 platform of the Populist Party?
American Farmers
Who sued the U.S. claiming he was free because he entered a free state?
Dred Scott
What happen at the courthouse in Appomattox, Virginia?
The Southern States surrendered, ending the war.
President Andrew Johnson and Congress disagreed on many issues after the Civil War. What was the one thing they agreed upon?
Opposition to any return to slavery
Which federal law gave Native Americans the right to sell their share of reservation lands as long as they agreed to assimilate into “mainstream” American society?
The Dawes Act
What did the Social Gospel movement and settlement houses have in common?
Performing good work was the key to salvation with God
What state was "bleeding" because of the violence that erupted over whether it should be a free or slave state?
Kansas
What battle win was needed in order for Lincoln to proclaim the Emancipation Proclamation?
The Battle of Antietam
Which amendment gave African American men the right to vote?
15th Amendment
Fill in the blank: The Bessemer process made steel quickly. This is one type of development that gave birth to the _______ ________________ Revolution.
Second Industrial
What did workers form to combat the abuses of business leaders?
unions
Who led an unsuccessful uprising on the arsenal at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia?
John Brown
What battle gave the Union control of the Mississippi River?
The Battle of Vicksburg
What was the main reason Northern troops had to stay in the South after the Civil War?
To protect former slaves from southerners.
What did Granville Woods invent?
Telegraph for trains
This man championed the right of workers to have a shorter work week (40 hours).
Samuel Gompers
What event pushed the southern states into secession?
Election of 1860 - the election of Abraham Lincoln
What form of transportation gave the Union an advantage in the North?
Railroads
What laws kept African Americans in a position of social and economic disadvantage across the South?
Jim Crow Laws
What contribution did Madam J. Walker (1867–1919) make to the American economy?
Hair products
Laws during this era required federal regulation of the economy as necessary in order to prevent the worst abuses of industrialization.
Progressive Era