Civil War/Reconst
Harriet Beecher Stowe authored a best selling novel that greatly influenced Northern attitudes toward slavery. It was
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Short, vague document that established our government
The Constitution
Many agreements between Native Americans and the federal government fell apart because?
Native Americans and settlers had differing concepts of land ownership.
Who was The Prince of Steel?
Carnegie
The Progressive movement focused mainly on the problems of
Urban Residents
The "turning point" of the Civil War was the Confederate loss at the Battle of
Gettysburg
Divides power between the state and national government?
Federalism
What was one key requirement that applicants had to meet to receive land under the Homestead Act?
They had to farm the land for five years in a row.
Who Invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
What one word best describes the attitude and mindset of the Progressive Era?
Reform
Promised freedom to slaves but actually did not free anyone at the time?
Emancipation Proclamation
There are certain things the government is not allowed to do.
Limited Government
One way the government sought to change Native Americans through the Dawes Act was by?
requiring them to farm individual plots (their own land)
The idea that wealth and technological advances "covered up" some deeper issues and problems as seen in the term
Gilded Age
Which amendment gave women the right to vote?
19th
Constitutional amendment that ended slavery?
13th
This gives each branch ways to keep the other branches from gaining too much power.
Checks and Balances
The most famous name of those killed at Little Bighorn?
Custer
This President was killed by someone who thought he deserved a job under the spoils system?
Garfield
Who was known as the "Rough riding trust buster"?
Teddy Roosevelt
Give two examples of methods used by southern states and southern whites to keep African Americans from voting?
Poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses, guarding polling places
This allows the Supreme Court to make sure Congress and the President are following the rules of the Constitution.
Judicial Review
Name two Pull Factors of Westward Expansion?
free land, gold mining, jobs on the railroads
This book did much to expose the living conditions of those in slum tenements?
How the Other Half Lives
In their platform, the Populists included provisions for? Name two.
free silver (the bimetallic standard), a progressive income tax, and an eight-hour day.