Antebellum
This is the main cause of the Civil War.
Slavery
What were the 3 civil rights amendments passed during the twilight of the Civil War and Reconstruction?
13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
This infamous political machine in New York was run by Boss Tweed.
Tammany Hall
This was Stephen A. Douglas' position about how the status of slavery in states should be decided by the people.
Popular sovereignty
The state and place where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
Fort Sumter, South Carolina
These were laws that were passed across the South in response to the Civil Rights Act Of 1866 in order to restrict African American's freedom.
Black Codes
This was the driving force of industry that allowed for the wealth and expansion of the Gilded Age.
Railroads
This prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock and derived products as food and ensured that livestock were slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.
Meat Inspection Act?
This act repealed the Missouri Compromise and caused the event known as 'Bleeding Kansas'.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This executive order declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
Emancipation Proclamation
This compromise effectively ended the Reconstruction era. As part of this compromise, Southern Democrats' promised to protect the civil and political rights of African Americans, but they did not follow through.
Compromise of 1877
This court case established the legality of segregation laws that allowed 'separate but equal public accommodations' for African Americans and whites.
Plessy v. Ferguson
This federal statute prohibits activities that restrict interstate commerce and competition in the marketplace.
Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
This act created the Indian Reservations system and forced Native Americans further out west.
1851 Indian Appropriations Act
The primary advantage for the CSA was:
A defensive war
This bill guaranteed blacks the right to sue, serve on juries, testify as witnesses against whites, and enter into legal contracts.
Civil Rights Act of 1866
This term is given to journalists who exposed the political and economic corruption and social hardships caused by the power of big business in a rapidly industrializing United States.
Muckrakers
This federal statute which prohibits activities that restrict interstate commerce and competition in the marketplace.
Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
One of the provisions of this compromise included the infamous Fugitive Slave Act.
Compromise of 1850
This conflict secured the Mississippi River for the Union forces.
Siege of Vicksburg
This bill forbade racial discrimination in all public places. The act was the Radical Republicans’ last legislative effort to protect the civil liberties of former slaves.
Civil Rights Act of 1875
This famous muckraker exposed the poor conditions of urban life by taking photographs of tenement housing.
Jacob Riis
This activist lead many unions and strikes, ran for President, and was later jailed by the federal government under accusations of sedition.
Eugene V. Debs