Causes of the Civil War
The primary cause of the Civil War
What is slavery?
This constitutional amendment passed in 1865 made slavery illegal throughout the US at the end of the Civil War
What is the 13th Amendment
This law passed in 1882 severely restricted immigration from China to the US for economic reasons but a heavy racial bias
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
This organization uses bribery or coercion to get citizens (generally urban poor and immigrants) to vote for their preferred political candidate
What is a Political Machine
This constitutional amendment granted women the right to vote in 1920
What is the 19th Amendment
Being more loyal to your state/region/culture than to your nation or society as a whole
What is Sectionalism
These laws were passed in the South shortly after the Civil War severely restricting the rights of freedmen and were very similar to the antebellum slave codes
What are the Black Codes
What is the Gentleman's Agreement with Japan
This infamous political machine ruled local politics in New York City after the Civil War and into the early 1900s
What is Tammany Hall
This trustbusting law that was largely ignored until Theodore Roosevelt's presidency sought to dismantle monopolies in the late 1800s and early 1900s
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act applied this political practice in 1854 that allowed citizens to vote on the issue of slavery
What is Popular Sovereignty
This practice lent involved lending land out to freedmen in exchange for a share in their crop, but often led to a pseudo form of slavery where the freedman wasn't able to pay what was due
What is Sharecropping
The Immigration Act of 1924 limited immigration from these two regions of the world due to fears of political radicalism
Eastern and Southern Europe
This man was the leader of the infamous political machine in New York City from the end of the Civil War to the early 1900s
Who is Boss Tweed
This movement helped build settlement houses and push for progressive legislation during the mid to late 1800s
What was the Social Gospel Movement
In the Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sandford, Justice Roger Taney ruled that the abolition of slavery went against this US founding document
What is the Constitution
What are Jim Crow Laws
Nicknamed "Old Immigrants", these immigrants came from these two regions in the early and mid 1800s
Northern and Southern Europe
This term refers to the abstinence from alcohol and culminated in the passing of the 18th Amendment in 1919
What is Temperance
This image depicts the naval blockade of the Confederacy and the control of the Mississippi River that was part of this strategy in the Civil War by Gen. Winfield Scott
What is the Anaconda Plan
"Separate but Equal" was the phrase used to summarize the ruling in this Supreme Court case in 1896
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
What is Economic Opportunity
This image was inspired by this muckraker in the early 1900s who exposed the deplorable conditions of the meat packing industry in his novel The Jungle
Who is Upton Sinclair