Civil War
Reconstruction
Western Expansion, Populism, Immigration
Industrial, Labor Movement, Progressive Era
American Imperialism & WWI
100

Southern states would begin to secede when this man was elected president

Who is Abraham Lincoln

100

Reconstruction was the term used to describe the program to repair damage done to the South during this event

What is the Civil War

100

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

100

The Temperance Movement advocated for a ban on the sale and consumption of this

What is alcohol

100

These were sold to make money that would help finance the U.S. in World War I

What were Liberty Bonds

200

This is the place where Lee surrendered to Grant

What is Appomattox Court House

200

This president gave high-level government jobs to untrustworthy friends and relatives

Who was Ulysses S. Grant

200

The Dawes Act offered 150 acres of reservation land to this group

Native Americans

200

Because people like Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair exposed problems with rapid industrialization, they were known as these

What are Muckrakers

200

The American public was outraged against Germany when this was intercepted and published

What was the Zimmerman Telegram (or Note)

300

This was the first major battle of the Civil War

What is the Battle of Bull Run

300

The term used to describe a white Southerner who supported reconstruction

What is a scalawag

300

This group of Americans feared that immigrants might take their jobs for lower wages

Who were Nativists

300

This president was assassinated by a member of his own political party

Who was James A. Garfield

300

This war revealed that the United States had become a world power

What is the Spanish American War

400

After Ulysses Grant won big at this battle, Lincoln made him commander of the Union army

What is Vicksburg

400

During reconstruction, Radical Republicans supported former slaves known as this

What are freedmen

400

In 1892, this political party was all in favor of a progressive income tax

What was the Populist Party

400

She became the first African American woman to receive a U.S. patent (for her fold-away bed invention)

Who was Sarah Goode

400

This group of Americans believed that the U.S. should stay out of European wars

What are Isolationists

500

One of the major reasons the Civil War started was because Southerners feared that Northerners would do this

What is abolish slavery

500

Congress organized the Southern states that had not rejoined the Union into military districts with this law

What was the Military Reconstruction Act

500

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

500

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

500

President Theodore Roosevelt's "Big Stick" diplomacy promoted this

What is military action