This failed because it broke the previous Missouri Compromise
What is the Compromise of 1850
100
A group that intimidated southern blacks
What is the KKK (Klu Klux Klan)
100
The most powerful political boss
Who is Boss Tweed (Tammany Hall)
200
The sharing of food, horses, gold, silver, and disease in South America
What is the Columbian Exchange
200
The first direct tax placed on colonial goods
What is the Stamp Act
200
The first attack of the Civil War
What is Fort Sumter
200
The court case that argued segregation with the idea of “separate but equal” facilities
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
200
The two cross-continental railroads being built
What are the Union Pacific (going West) and the Central Pacific (going East)
300
Discovered the success of tobacco in the colonies
Who is John Rolfe
300
The group that led the conspiracy theory about British control
Who are the Radical Whigs
300
Generals of the Confederacy and Union
Who is Robert E. Lee (Confederacy) and Ulysses S. Grant (Union)
300
An organization created to assist former slaves improve their lives
What is the Freedmen's Bureau
300
The owners of large steel, oil, and banking businesses
Who are Carnegie (steel), Rockefeller (oil), and JP Morgan (banks)
400
The purpose of the Mayflower Compact
What is creating a decision-making process based on the idea of majority rules
400
The battle that brought the French into the war
What is The Battle of Saratoga
400
The man who wrote The Crimes Against Kansas
Who is Charles Sumner
400
Racist laws created to prevent blacks to prosper
What are Black Codes
400
The desires of the Populist Party
What are the free and unlimited coinage of silver, a graduated income tax, government owned railroads, the direct election of senators, and immigration restrictions.
500
The religion that led to the creation of Maryland
What is Catholicism
500
British weaknesses
What are being in a distant land, no commitment, poor leadership, and European rivals
500
Officially ended slavery
What is the 13th Amendment
500
The man who purchased Alaska
Who was Secretary of State William Seaward
500
An attempt to stop patronage and corruption within the government