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Westward Expansion
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Reconstruction
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Doubled the size of America.
What is the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.
100
This book galvanized the opinions in the northern states that slavery was morally wrong.
What was Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
100
He was a radical abolitionists who took part in Bleeding Kansas and the raid on the arsenal at Harper's Ferry.
Who was John Brown?
100
He most exemplified the ideal of the Horatio Alger rags to riches story.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
100
Gave voting rights to all African American men.
What was the 15th amendment?
200
Led the Mormon's on their journey to the modern day state of Utah.
Who is Brigham Young?
200
Crusaded to reform institutions that treated the mentally ill.
Who was Dorothea Dix?
200
The failed military strategy developed by the Union General Winfield Scott.
What was the Anaconda Plan?
200
Leader of the American Federation of Labor.
Who was Samuel Gompers?
200
Provided education, job training and other services to former slave during the period of Reconstruction.
What was the Freemen's Bureau?
300
James Polk's 1844 campaign slogan that gave voice to the expansionist spirit.
What was "Fifty-four forty or fight!"
300
Frederick Douglas' antislavery journal.
What was "The North Star"?
300
The bloodiest single day of fighting during the Civil War.
What was the Battle at Antietam?
300
He exposed the corruption of Boss Tweed's Tammany Hall political machine.
Who was Thomas Nast?
300
This officially ended Reconstruction.
What was the Compromise of 1877?
400
Allowed California to enter the Union as a free state, but strengthened the fugitive slave law.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
400
This group of people included Emerson and Thoreau.
Who were the Transcendentalists?
400
A violent reaction to conscription laws in a North East city.
What was the New York Draft Riots?
400
Jacob Riis' book that exposed the horors of tenement house living in New York City.
What is "How the Other Half Lives"?
400
A group of former slaves that uprooted their families and moved west toward Kansas after the end of Reconstruction.
Who were the Exodusters?
500
An agreement that gave America assurances that Spain would abandon its claim to the Oregon Territory.
What was the Adams-Otis Treaty?
500
William Lloyd Garrison published "The Liberator" and formed this group to combat slavery.
What was the Antislavery Society?
500
Represented a revolution in naval capability during the Civil War.
What was the launching of the "Ironclads" by both the Union and the Confederacy?
500
In this book Adam Smith first articulated the principle of laissez-faire that guided government policy for much of industrialization.
What is "The Wealth of Nations"?
500
This divided the south into five sections to be under military rule during Reconstruction.
What was the Military Reconstruction Act?