Southern states would begin to secede when this man was elected president
Who is Abraham Lincoln
Reconstruction was the term used to describe the program to repair damage done to the South during this event
What is the Civil War
This law gave 160 acres of land in the West to settlers willing to live on it for 5 years
What was the Homestead Act
The Temperance Movement advocated for a ban on the sale and consumption of this
What is alcohol
These were sold to make money that would help finance the U.S. in World War I
What were Liberty Bonds
This is the place where Lee surrendered to Grant
What is Appomattox Court House
This president gave high-level government jobs to untrustworthy friends and relatives
Who was Ulysses S. Grant
The Dawes Act offered 150 acres of reservation land to this group
Native Americans
Because people like Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair exposed problems with rapid industrialization, they were known as these
What are Muckrakers
The American public was outraged against Germany when this was intercepted and published
What was the Zimmerman Telegram (or Note)
This was the first major battle of the Civil War
What is the Battle of Bull Run
The term used to describe a white Southerner who supported reconstruction
What is a scalawag
This group of Americans feared that immigrants might take their jobs for lower wages
Who were Nativists
This president was assassinated by a member of his own political party
Who was James A. Garfield
This war revealed that the United States had become a world power
What is the Spanish American War
After Ulysses Grant won big at this battle, Lincoln made him commander of the Union army
What is Vicksburg
During reconstruction, Radical Republicans supported former slaves known as this
What are freedmen
In 1892, this political party was all in favor of a progressive income tax
What was the Populist Party
She became the first African American woman to receive a U.S. patent (for her fold-away bed invention)
Who was Sarah Goode
This group of Americans believed that the U.S. should stay out of European wars
What are Isolationists
One of the major reasons the Civil War started was because Southerners feared that Northerners would do this
What is abolish slavery
Congress organized the Southern states that had not rejoined the Union into military districts with this law
What was the Military Reconstruction Act
After his famous "Cross of Gold" speech, William Jennings Bryan was nominated for this political party's presidential candidate in 1896
What is the Democrat Party
These two laws, in the late 1800s, would establish that Congress could regulate business in certain cases
What were the Interstate Commerce Act and the Sherman Antitrust Act
President Theodore Roosevelt's "Big Stick" diplomacy promoted this
What is military action