Question | Answer |
What was the Wilmot proviso and what did it propose? |
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What is secession? |
| What was the Compromise of 1815? And who supported it? |
| Who was the most active conductor of the Underground Railroad? |
| What was the first state to secede? |
| What was Abraham Lincoln's main goal when the Civil War began? |
| What area did the South have an advantage over the North in the Civil War? |
| What amendment or act abolished slavery in the north? |
| Why is the battle at Gettysburg considered a turning point in the Civil War? |
| What is the main reason that Lincoln did not respond with force to the Confederate threat to attack Fort Sumter? |
| What was the stated aim of the Emancipation Proclamation? |
| What role did Clara Barton play in the Civil War? |
| Who was the congressional leader of the radical Republicans? |
| The 14th amendment was passed to provide a constitutional basis for what? |
| During Reconstruction the system of sharecropping was least beneficial to which group of people and why? |
| What amendments or acts made "all persons born or naturalized in the United States citizens"? |
| Who was the first African-American US Senator? |
| Who did the radical Republicans believe should be in charge of reconstruction policy? |
| Pres. Andrew Johnson’s plan for reconstruction was aimed to punish what or who? |
| The Compromise of 1877 signaling signaled an end to this: |
| The state government that is run without federal intervention illustrates the idea of what? |
| No one can be kept from voting because of race, color, or former enslavement according to this: |
| What marked the end of the wars between the federal government and the Plains Indians? |
| Why did the policy of treating the Great Plains as a huge reservation change? |
| Who were the exodusters? |
| What was central to the life and culture of the Plains Indians in the 1800s the horse, the buffalo, the extended family, or landownership? |
| Most Native American responded to restrictions placed upon them by the US government by doing this |
| What was the Dawes Act and who was it designed to benefit? |
| What was the intent of the Homestead Act? |
| Who invented the typewriter? |
| Who invented the telephone? |
| Who developed an efficient technique for transforming iron into steel? |
| Who introduced an efficient means of retrieving oil beneath the earth’s surface? |
| Who perfected the incandescent light bulb at his research laboratory in Mignano Park, New Jersey? |
| Who developed an entire system for producing and distributing electrical power and organized power plants around the nation? |
| What allowed manufacturers to build their factories away from rivers? |
| What made it possible to construct skyscrapers in the 1800s? |
| What was the Sherman Antitrust Act? |
| The use of standardized time and time zones was introduced in order to benefit who or what? |
| Vertical integration, a business strategy used by steel mogul Andrew Carnegie, is what? |
| The main purpose of the company known as Credit Mobilier was |
| What was the goal of the Interstate Commerce Act? |
| Who organized the industrial workers of the world? |
| The main immigration processing station in San Francisco was called |
| The main goal of the Chinese Exclusion Act was to |
| The main goal of the Americanization movement was to |
| The row house was a new type of housing that conserved space by doing this |
| Settlement houses were founded in late 1800s by who |
| The illegal use of political influence for personal gain is called |
| What is the Gentleman's Agreement? |
| What is the main purpose of patronage? |
| What is a graft? |
| Who used the power of the presidency to clean up the New York customs house but was unable to get support from Congress for civil service reform? |
| What prompted the assassination of President Garfield? |
| What was the factor that prevented the greatest number of children from attending public high school? |
| What was the Grandfather clause and how did southern states use this process? |
| Cities in the late 19th century expanded with the development of what? |
| Skyscrapers are made possible by the invention of this |
| In the Southwest many Mexicans earned a living as this |
| What were Jim Crow laws and what did they do? |
| In the case of Plessy V Ferguson the Supreme Court ruled what? |
| Which development in the late 1900s allowed cities to expand outward? |
| Who expressed the belief that racism would end as blacks acquired practical work skills and proved their economic value to society? |
| What were the main goals of the Progressive Movement? |
| Who were the Muckrakers? |
| A Bill that originates from the people rather than legislators is known as what? |
| What did The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair expose? |
| Who was the first president to use the presidency as a “bully pulpit”? |
| What was the primary goal of the NAACP? |
| What was the Seventeenth Amendment and who gained most from it? |
| What was the primary goal of prohibitionists? |
| What was Roosevelt’s position on trusts? |
| What led to the defeat of Taft in 1912? |
| What was the primary motivation for passage of the Sixteenth Amendment? |
| What was the Sixteenth Amendment? |
| What candidate was considered least pleasing to reformers in the election of 1912? | |