US Civil War
This 1863 proclamation declared freedom for enslaved people in Confederate-held territories.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This government agency helped formerly enslaved people by providing food, education, and assistance after the Civil War.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
This term describes political supporters who received government jobs as rewards.
What is the Spoils System?
Journalists who exposed corruption and social problems during this era were known by this name.
What were Muckrakers?
This war between the United States and Spain resulted in U.S. control of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This battle is often considered the turning point of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
These laws were passed in Southern states to restrict the rights of African Americans.
What were the Black Codes?
This captain of industry built a vast steel empire.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
This president became known as a "trust-buster" for challenging monopolies.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
This policy called for equal trading rights in China.
What is the Open Door Policy?
He was the president of the Confederate States of America.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
This business leader created the Standard Oil Company.
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
This novel by Upton Sinclair exposed unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry.
What is The Jungle?
This passenger ship's sinking by a German submarine increased anti-German sentiment in the United States.
What is the RMS Lusitania?
This Union general accepted the surrender of Confederate forces at Appomattox Court House.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
This amendment prohibited denying the right to vote based on race.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
This law aimed to regulate railroad rates and practices in 1887.
What is the Interstate Commerce Act?
This amendment established the direct election of U.S. senators.
What is the Seventeenth Amendment?
This message from Germany to Mexico proposed an alliance against the United States.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
The disputed election of 1876 led to this agreement, which effectively ended Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This law was the first federal legislation designed to break up monopolies.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
This amendment granted women the right to vote nationwide.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
This U.S. president proposed the Fourteen Points and supported the League of Nations after World War I.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?