Immigration
In addition to the Irish and Germans, Chinese immigrants came in large numbers during this event starting in 1848.
What is the California Gold Rush?
The election of this president resulted in the secession of southern states.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This amendment officially abolished slavery in the United States, except in the case of punishment
What is the 13th Amendment?
A group of companies managed together to reduce competition.
What is a trust
The famous conducot of the underground railroad, rescuing around 3,000 enslaved people.
Who is Harriett Tubman?
This term describes anti-immigrant sentiment.
What is nativism?
This principle allowed territories to decide the issue of slavery for themselves.
What is popular sovereignty?
These laws were passed by Southern states to restrict the rights of newly freed African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
1882 law banning Chinese immigration to the U.S.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Oil tycoon who built Standard Oil Company and used monopolies to dominate.
Who is John D Rockefeller
Many of these immigrants in the 1800s built schools to educate their children and shield them from Protestant influence in public schools.
Who are Catholic immigrants?
This concept descirbes the US pre-Cil War, increasingly divided between the agricultural pro-slavery South and the industrial North.
What is sectionalism?
This organization was established to assist freed slaves ("40 acres and a mule").
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Economic idea that government should not interfere in business.
What is Laissez-faire
Union general who won the Civil War and later became president.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
One reason for European immigration to the U.S. between 1820 and 1859 was this widespread agricultural disaster in Ireland.
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
This Union strategy aimed to blockade Southern ports and split the Confederacy by controlling the Mississippi River.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
A system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a portion of the crop.
What is Sharecropping?
Political party of farmers and workers demanding more government help and advocated for bimetalism.
What is Populist Party
Industrialist who made a fortune in steel and believed in giving back to society.
Who is Andrew Carnegie
This secretive political party opposed immigration in the mid-19th century.
What is the Know-Nothing Party?
The Confederate Army was unable to invade the Union after this battle.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This compromise ended Reconstruction by withdrawing federal troops from the South to allow for Hayes to become president.
What is the Compromise of 1877
Major railway strike in 1894 shut down rail traffic nationwide.
What is Pullman Strike
Abolitionist who used violence, including the raid on Harper’s Ferry.
Who is John Brown