Presidents & Politics
What president is associated with the "Era of Good Feelings"?
James Monroe
What religious movement fueled many of the reforms of the early 1800s?
Second Great Awakening
What term describes the belief that the U.S. had the right to expand westward to the Pacific Ocean?
Manifest Destiny
What battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War?
Battle of Gettysburg
What inventor is credited with the light bulb and phonograph?
Thomas Edison
Which political party did Andrew Jackson help found?
Democratic Party
Who was a key leader of the temperance movement and a major reform advocate?
Carrie Nation (or Frances Willard)
What law allowed popular sovereignty to decide slavery in Kansas and Nebraska?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What was the main goal of the North at the start of the Civil War?
Preserve the Union
What term describes the belief that only the strongest businesses survive?
Social Darwinism
What event is known as the "Corrupt Bargain" of 1824?
Deal that made John Quincy Adams president in exchange for Henry Clay becoming Secretary of State
What reformer is most closely associated with public education reform?
Horace Mann
What 1820 agreement maintained the balance of free and slave states?
Missouri Compromise
What law gave formerly enslaved men the right to vote?
15th Amendment
What federal law was designed to break up monopolies in 1890?
Sherman Antitrust Act
Which president issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
Abraham Lincoln
Which abolitionist published The Liberator?
William Lloyd Garrison
What territory was acquired after the Mexican-American War and intensified the slavery debate?
Mexican Cession
What government agency was created to assist freed African Americans after the Civil War?
Freedmen’s Bureau
Who wrote How the Other Half Lives to expose tenement life?
Jacob Riis
What was the purpose of the Pendleton Civil Service Act, signed into law under President Arthur?
To reform government hiring and reduce patronage
What 1848 event marked the beginning of the organized women’s rights movement?
Seneca Falls Convention
What event resulted in violence between pro- and anti-slavery settlers in Kansas?
“Bleeding Kansas”
What were Southern laws designed to restrict African Americans after the war called?
Black Codes THEN Jim Crow Laws (1880s on)
What labor union was led by Samuel Gompers and focused on skilled workers?
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
What major scandal involved President Grant’s administration and railroad stock manipulation?
Credit Mobilier Scandal
Which reformer fought for prison and mental health reform in the 19th century?
Dorothea Dix
What 1857 Supreme Court decision ruled that African Americans were not citizens?
Dred Scott v. Sandford
What political conflict led to the first presidential impeachment in U.S. history?
Dispute over Reconstruction between Johnson and Congress
What 1894 strike was crushed by federal troops and involved railroad workers?
Pullman Strike