Civil War
North's strategy to win the Civil War
Anaconda Plan
Which constitutional addition abolished slavery except as criminal punishment?
13th Amendment
Populist candidate, William Jennings Bryan's dramatic speech that emphasized the importance of coining more types of money.
Cross of Gold Speech
Teddy Roosevelt's legislation that broke up monopolies.
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
AKA: "trust - busting"
After the Spanish-American War victory, this was added to Cuba's constitution and allowed the U.S. to interfere in their government and to lease a naval base.
Platt Amendment
The reason we celebrate Juneteenth; this announced that all slaves in rebel territories (Confederate states) were free.
Emancipation Proclamation
Which constitutional addition said states had to grant suffrage to men regardless of their race, color or previous condition of servitude?
15th Amendment
To encourage westward expansion, it allowed the federal government to sell cheap land to citizens for them to settle and farm on.
Homestead Act
Discriminatory law that stopped the immigration of certain Asian workers AND did not let those who were living in the U.S. become citizens.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Because of Teddy Roosevelt's negotiating, this helped prevent an international conflict by proposing that all nations shared the opportunity to trade with China.
Open Door Policy
At a memorial service for fallen soldiers, POTUS Lincoln made this speech where he assured that the North must win.
Gettysburg Address
Which constitutional addition included all freed people in the definition of citizenship and said that those rights are to be protected?
14th Amendment
This made railroad monopolies charge fair pries when transporting goods through multiple states.
Interstate Commerce Act
Consumers' League pushed for this legislation to ensure what the American public consumed was safe.
Pure Food and Drugs Act
MUST GIVE BOTH ANSWERS...
In order to preserve trade in Asia and the Pacific Ocean, Theodore Roosevelt negotiated the Treaty of Portsmouth between what two countries?
Russia and Japan
Prior to the Civil War, this declared that new territories being admitted to the Union could choose to be free or slave states.
Kansas - Nebraska Act
In the South, these segregated people based on race.
Jim Crow Laws
It split up Native American reservation lands and distributed them to individual American Indians for them to farm on and leftover tribal lands could be sold to settlers.
Dawes Act
Brain Trick:D for Dawes; D for Divide (split up).
What did the Keating-Owen Act ban the transportation of?
Goods/Things Produced by Child Labor
Brain Trick: K for Keating; K for Kids
In the Roosevelt Corollary speech, POTUS Teddy Roosevelt said that he would use force to prevent imperialist nations from attempting to get involved in which region of the world?
Latin America
MUST GIVE BOTH ANSWERS...
In the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln said that the North must win the war, what were the TWO reasons why?
Keep the nation unified
Abolish slavery
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1866 ban?
Black Codes
In this the federal government gave money to fund the creation of colleges out West to teach the settlers how to farm.
Morrill Act
Brain Trick: Morrill... looks like Morehouse, which is a college.
Discussed in secrecy, this prevented Japanese immigrants as long as Japanese students were integrated in San Franciscan schools.
Gentlemen's Agreement
In the De Lome Letter, the Spanish Ambassador criticized which POTUS?
William McKinley