1865-1875
The Year Abraham Lincoln was assassinated
when is the year 1865?
The year Reconstruction ended
When is 1877?
A mob against blacks who used to hang and kill them.
+50 points if you guess what they were mostly lynched onto
What is Lynching ?
+50: What is Trees
The people who made the first successful flying plane.
The 46st state that entered the Union
What is Oklahoma?
This ended the policy of recognizing Indian tribes as sovereign nations and negotiating through treaties
What was the Indian Appropriations Act?
John D Rockefeller was the owner of
What is the Standard Oil Trust
This event was caused due to a small group of anarchists were declared to have been engaged in making bombs on the same day as the incident, including round ones .
What is the Haymarket Riot?
This person delivered the address of "The significance of the Frontier in American History?"
Who is Frederick Jackson?
The two attendees of the presidential Inauguration of 1905
Who were Theodore Roosevelt and VP Charles Fairbanks?
This amendment bans slavery in the U.S, four million enslaved African American are freed.
This amendment grants citizenship to African Americans and allows "equal protection of the laws" to all U.S citizens
What is the 13th and 14th amendment
This Act forbid all immigration of the Chinese for 10 years
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This event was passed to control monopolies power.
What was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
This person gave the proposal of the “Atlanta Compromise“
Who is Booker T. Washington?
The name of the address that Theodore Roosevelt delivered
What was "The New Nationalism?"
This was a five-year economic depression after the failure of Jay Cooke's investment bank
What was the finical panic of 1873?
The Sioux and Cheyenne Indians attack and kill General George Custer and 274 cavalrymen
What is Little BigHorn?
This was initiated due the company's decision to decrease wages and increase working hours during the economic depression.
What is the Pullman strike?
This war happened because the Philippines wanted to be an independent and free country.
What is the Philippine-American War?
The events led 146 women workers to be killed in a fire
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire?
The Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads linked in Utah
What is first Transcontinental Railroad?
Who were the two people involved in the presidential Inauguration of 1885?
+50 points if their political party is answered
Who is, Grover Cleveland and VP Thomas Hendrick.
+50: Democratic party
This event was initiated due the company's decision to decrease wages and increase working hours during the economic depression.
What is the panic of 1893?
This war led the US to gain Puerto Rico, portion of Cuba, and Philippines
What was the Spanish-American war?
This book exposes the meat-packing industry and was written by a muckraker
What is “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair?