Civil War
Key Legislation and Events
Economic and Social Changes
Civil Rights and Reconstruction
Important Supreme Court Cases
100

The election in which Lincoln won and led to Southern secession.

What is the Election of 1860?

100

The act that established a system for the government to assist freed slaves and poor whites.

What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?

100

The economic policy that favored manufacturing and infrastructure development in the North

What is Henry Clay's American System

100

The amendment that granted citizenship to all persons born in the U.S.

What is the 14th Amendment?

100

This case established judicial review and strengthened the Supreme Court's power.

What is Marbury v. Madison?

200

The conflict characterized by the violent confrontations between abolitionists and pro-slavery forces in Kansas.

What is Bleeding Kansas?

200

The compromise that allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state while Maine entered as a free state

What is the Missouri Compromise?

200

The belief that it was America's destiny to expand its territory across the continent.

What is Manifest Destiny?

200

The group that fought against Black Codes and Jim Crow laws in the South.

 What is the NAACP

200

The case that ruled against the legality of segregation in public facilities.

What is Brown v. Board of Education?

300

The Civil War amendment that abolished slavery.

What is the 13th Amendment?

300

This concept allowed voters to decide on the legalization of slavery in new states.

What is popular sovereignty?

300

The movement that sought to improve women's rights and suffrage in the 19th century.

What is the Women's Rights Movement?


300

The series of laws passed to prevent African Americans from voting.

What are Jim Crow laws?

300

This case involved a challenge to the Indian Removal Act and its implications on Native American rights.

 What is Worcester v. Georgia?

400

The Supreme Court case that established the principle of "separate but equal.

What is Plessy v. Ferguson?

400

The act passed under Andrew Jackson that forcibly relocated Native Americans.

What is the Indian Removal Act?

400

The result of the Gadsden Purchase, which further expanded U.S. territory.

What is the acquisition of land from Mexico?

400

 The historical figure who advocated for immediate rights for African Americans through legal means.

Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?

400

The Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of the income tax.

 What is Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.?

500

The plan to restore peace and address the issues in the South post-Civil War.

 What is Reconstruction?

500

The law that aimed to break up monopolies and ensure competition in the market.

What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?

500

The act that granted male suffrage to all African American males.

What is the 15th Amendment?

500

The compromise that effectively ended Reconstruction and allowed Southern states to regain control.

 What is the Compromise of 1877?

500

The case that dealt with free speech during wartime and set precedents for future cases.

What is Schenk v. U.S.?