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100
This person was later hanged for his attempt to seize the arsenal at Harpers Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
100
Border ruffians raided the anti-slavery town of Lawrence, Kansas. John Brown retaliated by killing several pro-slavery settlers. This term describes the violent outbreaks during this time period.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
100
This term described a building that had few windows and poor sanitation conditions.
What is a Tenement building?
100
To protect the home and ban liquor, a group of women joined together to form this Union.
What is the Women’s Christian Temperance Union.
100
This President referred to the right of each state to control its own affairs in his inaugural address. He did this to assure the Southern states that they would make their own decisions about slavery.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
This person was a conductor on the Underground Railroad and was known as “Black Moses”
Who is Harriet Tubman?
200
This was the first labor organization founded in 1869 by Uriah Smith Stephens and later controlled by Terence V. Powderly.
What is the Knights of Labor?
200
During the 1870s, Supreme Court decisions restricted the scope of this amendment. (Legislation that grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States)
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
200
This was a central goal of Henry Grady’s idea for a New South after the Civil War.
What is the development of industry?
200
Most Midwestern cities were established near this particular item.
What is water?
300
This journalist called attention to the living conditions of tenement-dwellers. He also wrote a book How the Other Half Lives.
Who is Jacob Riis.
300
This industry was the basis of the South’s economy after the Civil War. The main products were tobacco and cotton.
What is Agriculture?
300
This act is the first effort to control the south after the Civil War. (During Reconstruction)Ten southern states are divided into five military districts governed by former Union generals.
What is The Reconstruction Act of 1867?
300
Native Americans viewed nature as__________. This was in contrast to how white settlers viewed nature.
What is sacred?
300
This concept is what describes the movement of so many people from the country to move to the cities. Steady employment was a contributing factor.
What is Rural-to-Urban Migration?
400
This person was arrested for voting in a New York election.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
400
The first great boom in the West was spurred on due to the discovery of iron ore used in making steel. (The first real industry in the West)
What is the mining industry?
400
This is the term used to describe W.E.B. Du Bois view as the key to “everything”?
What is suffrage?
400
Evidence that the farmers challenged the government’s laissez-faire policies during the late 1800s. The Interstate Commerce Commission and Federal Reserve Act addressed these issues) The Farmers Alliance demanded change, reforms, in these two areas.
What is regulations placed on railroads and banks?
400
Cubans and Puerto Ricans were partially restricted by the United States after this event.
What is the Spanish-American War?
500
This man outlined the Social Gospel in a book entitled Christianity and the Social Crisis. He believed that Christianity should be the basis of social reform.
Who is Walter Rauschenbusch?
500
In 1903 the Muller v. Oregon Supreme Court decision defined how and why women were classified differently than men. This decision _____________ for women. Later, this decision was used to limit their pay.
What is limited the work hours?
500
The 1908 Springfield Riot led to the formation of this group.
What is the NAACP?
500
These books honestly portrayed human misery and the struggles of common people. These novels were called _______________ novels.
What is Naturalist?
500
The Confederate States of America made sure to include a provision in their constitution that prohibited importing slaves from other countries to win the support from these two countries.
What is Britain and France?