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The first and only President of the Confederate States of America.
What is the 1808 Slave Importation Act?
The first Black man to be appointed to the US Senate.
Who is Hiram Revels?
The National Fugitive Slave Act passed under these set of legislations (laws)?
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This system lets a landowner to grant their tenets parts of his land, in return for profits from the harvest. This was used to keep formerly enslaved Black people in a type of economic bondage to the Southern planter class.
What is sharecropping?
This state succeeded after Lincoln won the presidential election.
What is South Carolina?
This was the attempt to not only rebuild but for some fundamentally change the Southern US following the Civil War
What is Reconstruction?
Who is Rutherford Hayes?
The Executive Order that freed enslaved Black people living in Confederate territory under US jurisdiction.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This nation wide union formed in Columbus, Ohio in 1886 after the failures of the Knights of Labor.
What is the AFL (American Federation of Labor)?
This country became a US colony after the US won the Spanish-American War.
What is the Philippines?
This is name given to the Southern strategy to recreate Southern Society before the Civil War, meaning the continued restriction of Black people's social, political, and economic rights.
What is Redemption?
This man wrote the "Frontier Thesis" claiming that America's greatness came from taming the "Wild West."
Who is Frederick Jackson Turner?
The year that gave Native Americans US citizenship
What is 1924
This the term used to describe paper currency in contrast to metals like gold or silver.
What is soft money?
What are post Civil War race riots?
This belief argued that some people were naturally superior to others and was used to justified racial colonial exploitation.
What is Social Darwinism?
He lead the famous Amistad slave ship rebellion.
Who is Cinqué?
This law divided Native American Reservations in order to assimilate Native Americans into the white yeomen farmer lifestyle.
What is the Dawes Act?
The Union considered slaves this as a means of not only freeing slaves from their traitorous masters but also to hurt the Southern Economy.
What is contraband?
The building where Robert Lee surrender to Ulysses Grant and thus ending the Civil War
What is the Appomattox Court House?
This period was a time of great contrasts, great technological and economic advancements, but also marked by extreme income inequality between the rich and the poor.
What is the Gilded Age?