Important People
This former enslaved person became a leading abolitionist speaker.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands…”
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This was the nickname for southerners who supported Reconstruction.
What is scalawag?
This Union strategy aimed to suffocate the South economically.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This industrialist dominated the steel industry through vertical integration.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This president is the first president to ever be impeached.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
“The American continents… are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization…”
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This federal agency provided education, food, and legal assistance to African Americans.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This act restricted immigration based on nationality for the first time.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Thomas Jefferson passed this unpopular law that stopped trade with Europe.
What is the Embargo Act?
“All persons held as slaves… shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This law limited the president’s power to remove cabinet members.
What is the Tenure of Office Act?
This future president became a war hero after his victory at the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This violent 1886 labor protest occurred in Chicago.
What is the Haymarket Riot?
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison authored these two documents to show their displeasure with John Adam’s Alien and Sedition Acts.
What are the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions?
“Separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferugson?
This president benefited from the Compromise of 1877.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
This 1848 treaty ended the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This labor union welcomed both skilled and unskilled workers.
What are the Knights of Labor?
This individual offered the doctrine of nullification in the Nullification Crisis of 1832.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This was the initial attempt of Radical Republicans to restrict the South’s ability to rejoin the Union. It was vetoed by Lincoln.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
This treaty officially ended the American Revolution in 1783.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This law attempted to regulate railroad rates.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?