Westward!
This presidential act doubled the size of the United States
The Louisiana Purchase
Supreme Court case of 1857 in which an enslaved couple sued - unsuccessfully - for their freedom
Dred Scott v. Sanford
The first shots of the Civil War were fired at this South Carolina location
Fort Sumter
14th Amendment
Citizenship for former slaves.
This 1892 strike at Carnegie’s steel plant turned violent. The strike weakened the steelworkers' union and led to a decline in public support for labor unions.
Homestead Strike
This territory was purchased from Spain in 1819
Florida
Stephen Douglas championed this position on the slavery question which would allow each state to decide its legality. Abraham Lincoln opposed it.
Popular sovereignty
Name for the Union strategy in 1861 to strangle the Confederacy by land and sea
The Anaconda Strategy
Political wing in Congress who were most in conflict with President Johnson's post-war plans
Radical Republicans
The political movement that pushed for farmers' rights and regulation of big business.
The Populist Movement
He was president during the Mexican-American War
Polk
Harriet Beecher Stowe's electrifying 1852 bestseller which depicted the cruelty of slavery
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A term for a white Southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction or who joined with black freedmen
“Scalawags”
in 1896 segregation was upheld in the Supreme Court by which case
Plessy V. Ferguson
This 1830 law led to the Trail of Tears.
Indian Removal Act
The Gadsden Purchase of 1853 was prompted by this flourishing American industry
Railroads
Northern abolitionist who murdered slave owners in Kansas in the 1850's and attempted to incite a slave rebellion before his execution in 1859
John Brown
Confederate general famed for his strategic prowess throughout the war; became a college professor after surrendering at Appomattox Court House
Robert E. Lee
This event marked the official end of Reconstruction efforts by the Federal government
Compromise of 1877
Buying out all competitors in an industry is called this type of monopoly strategy.
Horizontal Integration
After the conclusion of the Mexican-American war, this river became the southern border of the United States
The Rio Grande
Vigorous enforcement of a strong Fugitive Slave Law was a part of this Congressional act
The Compromise of 1850
The Union victory at this location in July, 1863 blocked Confederate access to the Mississippi River
Vicksburg
Born a slave, he went on to champion technical education for blacks and founded Tuskegee University
Booker T. Washington
A U.S. government agency established in 1865 to aid in the transition of formerly enslaved people to freedom and citizenship after the Civil War
The Freedmen's Bureau