Prohibited slavery in all federal territories north of the 36 30' except Missouri
What is the Missouri Compromise
100
president of the Confederate states of America
Who is Jefferson Davis?
100
this amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery
What is the 13th amendment?
100
this Progressive legislation outlawed monopolies and practices that restrained trade, such as price fixing
What is the Sherman Anti-trust Act?
100
started when U.S. accused Spain of blowing up U.S.S. Maine in 1898
What is the Spanish-American War?
200
Opened New Mexico and Utah territories to slavery based on popular sovereignty, made California a free state, banned slave trade in D.C.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
200
first battle of the Civil War
What is Bull Run (Manassas, Virginia)?
200
The 15th amendment to the Constitution gave this group of Americans the right to vote/suffrage
Who are African-American males?
200
allowed the federal government to inspect meat sold across state lines and required inspection of meat processing plants
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
200
this Presidential foreign policy updated the Monroe Doctrine for an age of economic imperialism
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
300
part of the Compromise of 1850 , this law forced all Americans to return runaway slaves to their masters or face arrest
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
300
this battle was the major turning point of the Civil War
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
300
Constitutional amendment extending citizenship to African Americans
What is the 14th Amendment?
300
former Republican U.S. President who ran on behalf of the Progressive/Bull Moose party in the Election of 1912
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
300
restricted the rights of newly independent Cubans following the Spanish-American War
What is the Platt Amendment?
400
state laws passed in several northern states that allowed slave catchers to be arrested for kidnapping
What are personal liberty laws?
400
town where Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union general Ulysses S. Grant, marking the end of the Civil War
What is Appomattox (Virginia)?
400
a system in which a farmer tended a portion of a planter's land in return for a share of the crop
What is sharecropping?
400
African-American Harvard graduate and social activist who helped create the N.A.A.C.P.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
400
foreign policy pertaining to China that state U.S. did want to colonize China, but instead simply wanted access to foreign markets
What is the Open Door Policy?
500
Democratic President from 1857-1861 did nothing to stop South Carolina's secession
Who is President James Buchanan?
500
executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln freeing slaves in Confederate states ONLY.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
500
three strategies southern whites used to disenfranchise African-American males from Reconstruction to the Voting Rights Act of 1965
What are literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and poll taxes?
500
Progressive photojournalist who compiled photographs of urban poor and immigrants entitled 'How the Other Half Lives'
Who is Jacob Riis?
500
In 1907, Roosevelt sent this armada of 16 battleships on a "good will cruise" around the world, demonstrating America's increased military power to the world.