Events Leading up
to the Civil War
to the Civil War
Which law said that if a slave escaped, citizens were required to turn them in, and if they did not, they were fined or jailed?
The Fugitive Slave Act
Which side won the Civil War?
The Union
What is defined as “the period of time when the South was rebuilt, as well as the Federal government’s program to rebuild it”?
Reconstruction
What country became the world’s industrial leader by the mid-1890s?
The United States
What word means not choosing sides in a war? Something the United States chose to be at the start of WWI
Neutral
What were women called that rebelled against the traditional ways of thinking and acting?
Flappers
What did Henry Clay propose that would keep the power balanced between slave and free states, admit Missouri as a slave state, and admit Maine as a free state?
The Missouri Compromise
Who became the General and Commander of the Union Army?
Ulysses S. Grant
Who became president after Lincoln died?
Andrew Johnson
What type of car did Henry Ford invent?
Model T
What group during WWI consisted of the countries Great Britain, Russia, France, and eventually, The United States?
The Allied Powers
What is a ban on the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages?
Prohibition
What novel did Harriet Beecher Stowe write that told the true horrors of slavery?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who became the Chief General of the Confederate Army?
Robert E. Lee
Which amendment said that any person born or naturalized in the United States was a citizen and would receive equal protection under the law?
14th
What manufacturing process made it where one part could be replaced easily without taking apart the whole product?
Interchangeable parts
What was Woodrow Wilson’s proposal called at the end of WWI?
Wilson's 14 Points
Which amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920?
19th
What was the first state to secede from the United States?
South Carolina
What did President Lincoln issue that freed slaves living in the Confederacy?
Emancipation Proclamation
What were the laws called that legally separated blacks and whites?
Jim Crow Laws
What is it called when a trust has total ownership of a product or service?
Monopoly
What proposal was accepted at the end of WWI, which placed a lot of the blame on Germany?
Treaty of Versailles
The Roaring Twenties officially came to an end when what crashed?
The Stock Market
What law dismissed the Missouri Compromise and allowed states to choose whether they would be slave or free, despite their location in the nation?
Compromise of 1850
What did Northerners believe was the reason they had to fight?
To preserve the Union
What is the newer national holiday that we celebrate on June 19th every year?
Juneteenth
What disaster happened in 1911 that resulted in the death of 146 men and women due to employers not following safety guidelines?
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
What group during WWI consisted of the countries Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey (Ottoman Empire)?
The Central Powers
Between 1910 and 1920 large numbers of African Americans living in the south left to settle in northern cities, this is called the?
The Great Migration