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100
Santa Anna was defeated fairly quickly and the US gained much territory in this conflict.
What is the Mexican-American War?
100
The bloodiest individual day in the Civil War?
What is Antietam?
100
14th Amendment
What is citizenship and due process protections?
100
Railroad line that employed the Irish and started out of Omaha
What is the Union Pacific?
100
Ellis Island was for _____________ immigrants, while Angel Island functioned as an immigration center for ________ immigrants
What is European and Asian?
200
Poor 15th president who helped create the environment for a Civil War.
Who is James Buchanan?
200
She established the American Red Cross and furthered women's efforts to help with skilled nursing care.
Who was Clara Barton?
200
Importance of the Election of 1876.
What is the compromise that allowed Hayes the presidency if Reconstruction ended?
200
He ordered the Massacre at Sand Creek.
Who was John Chivington?
200
steerage passengers
What are the passengers that would have had to undergo examination at Ellis Island?
300
Slaves were deemed property not citizens in this case.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
300
He reported on Civil War hardships in hospitals and is also credited with "Oh Captain, My Captain."
Who is Walt Whitman?
300
They called for a 50% "Oath of Allegiance from 1860 voters to be allowed back into the union.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
300
Little Bighorn should make you think of....
What is the battle that Custer and the 7th Cavalry lost?
300
Thomas Nast
What is the cartoonist that brought down Boss Tweed's corruption?
400
Uncle Tom's Cabin
What is the book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe which is considered a cause of of the Civil War?
400
Issued by Lincoln but only freed slaves in the Confederate South.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
He was brought up on charges but not successfully impeached.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
400
Sierra Nevadas, racism and severe weather conditions
What are challenges that the Central Pacific Railroad faced?
400
This was the biggest example of political corruption, courtesy of Boss Tweed.
What was the NY City Courthouse?
500
He is considered a double cause of the Civil War due to Pottawattomie Creek and Harper's Ferry?
Who is John Brown?
500
Lincoln suspended this during the war to check up on those who might be enemies of the country.
What is the writ of habeas corpus?
500
He established the Klan after the South suffered the humiliation of losing the Civil War.
Who was Nathan Bedford Forrest?
500
This court case said that the government had the right to regulate industries (like railroads) that the public had an interest in or were affected by.
What was Munn v. Illinois?
500
American-born and Irish
What were the types of gangs that flourished in NY at the turn of the twentieth century?