Antebellum
Lone Star State, due to the result of THIS, against Mexico in 1836
Texas Revolution
THIS is the significance of Fort Sumter
Staying true to President Lincoln's First Innaugural Address, the South started the war and that the North was merely responding in defense.
This set of labor laws allowed the arrest on vagrancy charges of freedmen who failed to sign yearly labor contracts.
Black Codes
The name of those individuals denounced for "raking up dirt", or problems, for industrialists and corrupt politicians
muckrakers
THIS, in 1845, resulted in Mexico declaring war on the U.S.
Texas Annexation
This was the significance of the Battle of Bull Run 1861
That the Union realized that speedy victory was not assured
Reconstruction plan that sought to rapidly re-integrate southerners into the Union, centering southerners in the healing process over the interests of Freedmen
Presidential Reconstruction
The 2nd Industrial Revolution was critical to the Gilded Age because it augmented this:
Production, from machine-based to mass production
Series of laws addressing the territorial and slavery controversies arising from territory acquired as a result of the Mexican American War.
Compromise of 1850
this battle, fought in the Western Theater, drove home the point that this Civil War was going to be a bloodbath
Battle of Shiloh
Constitutional amendment ratified in 1870 that granted African American men the right to vote.
15th Ammendment
Ideology that adapted the theory of natural selection to society, justifying inequality and competition.
Social Darwinism
Bleeding Kansas, resulting from violence in the wake of THIS act in THIS year
Kansas Nebraska Act 1854
The objective of THIS battle was that, if the Confederates won, the victory could convince Maryland to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy.
Battle of Antietam
Constitutional amendment ratified in 1868 that granted birthright citizenship.
14th Ammendment
YEAR of a strike crippling the nation's rail system, widely held to be the first national action of the modern day labor movement
Great Railroad Strike
The 1856 election saw THIS major political party system emerge for the first time on an anti-slavery platform
Republican party
The Gettysburg Address gave meaning to the war, especially honoring casualities, because it reaffirmed THIS principle of America's identity (and founding)
That all are created equally and should be treated as such.
President Grant instituted THIS strategic reconstruction supports throughout southern states
Military Reconstruction
The US' aggressive seizure of Hawaii, against the false pretense of respecting Hawaiian self-determination, is evidence of the emergence of THIS global ideology, a particular theme of US2.
Imperialism