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This 1854 law was a major cause
of the Civil War as it overturned
the Missouri Compromise and
caused a bloody struggle over
the expansion of slavery in the
West.
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What is the
Kansas-Nebraska
Act?
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This 1862 Civil War battle
was crucial to the Union as it
convinced Europeans not to
intervene and enabled
Lincoln to issue the
Emancipation Proclamation.
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What is the
Battle of
Antietam?
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This proposed Wilmot
Proviso (1848) angered the
South as it sought to
prevent slavery from
spreading to this territory.
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What is the
Mexican Cession?
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This constitutional
amendment provided
voting rights for
African Americans.
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What is the
Fifteenth
Amendment?
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This 1867 act put
Congress firmly in
control of
Reconstruction.
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What is the
Military
Reconstruction
Act?
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This New York project,
completed in 1825,
connected the East to
the West with shallow
waters.
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What is the Erie
Canal?
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This was the most
important development
of the Transportation
Revolution.
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What is the
railroad?
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In 1807, Robert
Fulton invented this, a
vessel that could
swim upstream.
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What is the
steamboat?
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This national turnpike
eventually connected
western Maryland with
Vandalia, Illinois.
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What is the
National Road
(Cumberland
Road)?
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Considered the beginning of
the transportation revolution,
this 62-mile turnpike was
completed in 1790 from
Philadelphia to Amish country.
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What is the
Lancaster
Turnpike?
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This 1848 treaty
gave the U.S. nearly
one-half of Mexico’s
territory.
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What is the
Treaty of
Guadalupe
Hidalgo?
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This tragic trek to
Oklahoma resulted from
Jackson’s refusal to
honor Worcester v.
Georgia (1832).
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What is the Trail
of Tears?
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This 1846 treaty with
Britain split this territory at
th
the 49 parallel and gave
the U.S. direct access to
the Pacific Ocean.
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What is the
Oregon Treaty?
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This purchase gave the U.S.
southern Arizona and New
Mexico for the purpose of
building a southern
transcontinental railroad.
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What is the
Gadsden
Purchase?
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In 1867, Secretary of
State William Seward
purchased this territory;
critics called it “Seward’s
Folly.”
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What is Alaska?
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This was the first
industry in America’s
Industrial Revolution.
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What is the
textile industry?
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This 1837 Jacksonian
Supreme Court decision
reduced monopoly in
state infrastructure
projects.
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What is the
Charles River
Bridge case?
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This inventor
revolutionized
manufacturing by
.
utilizing
interchangeable parts.
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Who is Eli
Whitney?
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Elias Howe invented this
contraption that made the
creation of clothing faster
and easier.
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What is the
sewing
machine?
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Cyrus McCormick
developed this, a
machine that could
harvest crops much
faster.
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What is the
mower reaper?
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This female reformer
improved living
conditions for the
mentally handicapped.
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Who is Dorothea
Dix?
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This reform movement
overshadowed all others in
antebellum America, and
eventually helped cause a
war.
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What is
abolitionism?
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This reformer was the
most influential advocate
for tax-supported public
education in Antebellum
America.
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Who is Horace
Mann?
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Led by the likes of
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
and Lucretia Mott, this
meeting in 1848 became
the beginning of the
women’s rights movement.
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What is the
Seneca Falls
Convention?
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This organization’s
efforts eventually
reduced alcohol abuse in
antebellum society.
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What is the
American
Temperance
Society?
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This was the first major
radical abolitionist; he
published The Liberator.
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Who is William
Lloyd Garrison?
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This secret organization
and party sought to
reduce the influence of
Catholics and foreigners.
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Who are the
“Know-Nothings”
(American
Party)?
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A bombardment at this
location represented the
beginning of the Civil
War.
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What is Ft.
Sumter?
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These farmers’
daughters were the first
source of labor for
America’s industrial
revolution.
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Who are the
Lowell Girls?
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The Dow Laws in Maine
were the first to make
this illegal.
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What is the
production of
alcohol?
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Abolition
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This former slave was the
most important black
abolitionist; he sought to
use the political system to
end slavery.
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Who is Frederick
Douglass?
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This Boston patrician
was known as
“abolitionism’s
Golden Trumpet.”
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Who is Wendell
Phillips?
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This law was put into
effect between 1836 and
1844 in response to
abolitionist talk in
Congress.
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What is the Gag
Resolution?
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This organization,
founded in 1817,
sought to relocate free
blacks to West Africa.
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What is the
American
Colonization
Society?
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This former New York slave
became an influential
abolitionist speaker with her
famous speech, “Ain’t I a
woman?” and also spoke for
women’s rights.
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Who is
Sojourner
Truth?
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This 1852 novel by
Harriet Beecher Stowe
highlighted the evils of
slavery and became a
best-seller.
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What is Uncle
Tom’s Cabin?
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This transcendentalist wrote
On Civil Disobedience and
spent time in jail rather than
pay taxes to support the
Mexican War.
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Who is Henry
David Thoreau?
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This “mountain white” writer
claimed in The Impending
Crisis of the South that
slavery was bad for poor
southern whites.
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Who is Hinton
Helper?
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This “self-reliant”
transcendentalist epitomized
the Romantic movement in
America and later supported
abolitionism.
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Who is Ralph
Waldo
Emerson?
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Perhaps the most
important preacher of the
Second Great Awakening,
this reformer inspired
several major reform
movements.
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Who is Charles
Grandison
Finney?
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This law was passed in
1862 due to the
inadequacy of the
Independent Treasury
System.
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What is the
National
Banking Act?
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This 1862 law paved the
way for the completion
of the first
transcontinental
railroad.
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What is the
Pacific Railway
Act?
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If you were willing to
move out West, the
government would give
you land for free as a
result of this 1862 act.
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What is the
Homestead Act?
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This new national currency
was issued during the Civil
War; Treasury Secretary
Chase put his mug on the
$1 bill.
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What is the
Greenback?
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This 1861 act raised
customs duties
significantly to pay for
the costs of the war.
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What is the
Morrill Tariff?
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These two opposing
generals were the leaders
of their respective armies
by the end of the war.
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Who are Ulysses
S. Grant and
Robert E. Lee?
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This young, dashing Union
general was loved by his men
but fired by Lincoln after
Antietam for his
unwillingness to engage the
Confederates.
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Who is George
McClellan?
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This July 1863 battle was
the bloodiest of the war
and was the military
turning point of the war.
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What is
Gettysburg?
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This July 21, 1861
engagement was the
first major land battle
of the Civil War.
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What is (first)
Bull Run
(Manassas)?
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The Union’s 1863 victory
in this siege gave the
Union total control of
the Mississippi River.
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What is
Vicksburg?
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These planter-inspired laws in
the South sought to return
the freedmen to as close a
condition of slavery as
possible while guaranteeing
the labor supply.
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What are the
Black Codes?
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This organization, led by
General Oliver Howard,
sought to help former
slaves adjust to their
new lives.
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What is the
Freedmen’s
Bureau?
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This Constitutional
Amendment gave
African Americans
citizenship.
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What is the
Fourteenth
Amendment?
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This was Lincoln’s plan
to bring the southern
states back into the
Union after the war was
over.
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What is the
10% Plan?
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The southern states
were forced to ratify this
amendment before they
were finally readmitted
into the Union.
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What is the
Fourteenth
Amendment?
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This woman was
called “Moses” for her
success in this
movement.
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Who is Harriet
Tubman?
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Although seen as a
convenient solution to the
expansion of slavery in
the West, this principle
resulted in “Bloody
Kansas.”
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What is popular
sovereignty?
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This senator was nearly
beaten to death in 1857
due to a fiery speech
against the slave-holding
South.
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Who is Charles
Sumner?
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During and following
Reconstruction, this African
American leader advocated
“accommodation” in order
to focus on black economic
development.
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Who is Booker
T. Washington?
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In 1859, John Brown led a
group of fanatical
abolitionists in an attack
on this Virginia town,
hoping to begin a slave
revolt.
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What is Harper’s
Ferry?
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This 1896 Supreme
Court decision stated
“separate but equal”
was constitutional.
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What is Plessy v.
Ferguson?
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