Civil War & Reconstruction
This U.S. president issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This 1862 act gave settlers free land if they farmed it.
What is the Homestead Act?
This 1890s party represented farmers and workers.
What is the Populist Party?
This New York Harbor station processed millions of European immigrants.
What is Ellis Island?
He invented the electric light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
The Civil War began with Confederate fire on this fort.
What is Fort Sumter?
This 1876 battle saw Custer defeated by Lakota and Cheyenne forces.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle led to reforms in this industry.
What is the meatpacking industry?
This 1882 law banned immigration from a specific Asian country.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Henry Ford pioneered this method of mass production.
What is the assembly line?
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This 1887 act broke up tribal lands to force assimilation.
What is the Dawes Act?
This 1896 “Cross of Gold” orator championed silver coinage.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
Immigrants to the West Coast were processed at this site.
What is Angel Island?
Andrew Carnegie’s fortune came from this industry.
What is steel?
These Republicans wanted harsh punishment for the South and rights for freedmen.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
This railroad completed in 1869 linked the nation coast to coast.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This woman founded Hull House in Chicago.
Who is Jane Addams?
This journalist exposed immigrant tenement life in How the Other Half Lives.
Who is Jacob Riis?
This 1890 law aimed to break up monopolies.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This 1877 compromise ended Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This 1890 massacre marked the symbolic end of the frontier.
What is Wounded Knee?
Theodore Roosevelt’s reform plan was called this.
What is the Square Deal?
Nativists supported these limits on newcomers from certain nations.
What are immigration quotas?
This violent 1892 steel strike was crushed by private guards.
What is the Homestead Strike?