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Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 led to the end of slave trade in Washington DC and the amendment of the Fugitive Slave Act which stated that escaped slaves needed to be returned to the slave owners. Category: Domestic Policy. -
Millard Filmore
Filmore was the 13th president of the USA. He became the president after Zachary Taylor's death. He was first in the Anti-Masonic Party but then switched to the Whig Party. Category: Society and Culture. -
Franklin Pierce
Pierce is the 14th president of the USA. He is best known for seeing the abolition movement as a fundamental threat to the unity of the nation. Category: Society and Culture. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas Nebraska Act stated that the citizens of Kansas and Nebraska could decide whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. Category: Domestic Policy. -
Stephen A. Douglas
Douglas was a politician and the designer of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Category: Society and Culture. -
Dred Scott v. Sanford
The Dred Scott v. Sanford case ruled out that Americans of African descent were not US citizens and could not sue in federal court. Category: Domestic Policy. -
James Buchanan
Buchanan was the 15th president of the USA and is best known for being president during the seceding of the south. He saw the what seemed to be the beginning of the Civil War. Category: Society and Culture. -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
The Lincoln Douglas debates were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Democratic candidate Stephen Douglas debating the topic of slavery. Category: Politics. -
John Brown/Harper's Ferry
Brown was an abolitionist who believed that armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow slavery in America. Harper's Ferry was a town that was raided by John Brown in order to try and start a slave revolt. Category: Society and Culture. -
Election of 1860
The election of 1860 was between the candidates Abraham Lincoln and John C. Breckenridge. Lincoln won the election causing the south to secede from the Union. Category: Politics. -
South Secedes/Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America was what the South called themselves after they seceded from the Union. Category: Politics. -
Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee was the general for the Confederate soldiers and surrendered the Confederate side at the ending of the Civil War. Category: Society and Culture. -
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt was an investor in the railroads during the Civil War. Vanderbilt gave some of the money he made to education. Category: Society and Culture. -
Fort Sumter
Fort Sumter was the first battle of the Civil War and started when the Confederates opened fire on the Union soldiers at Fort Sumter. Category: Geography. -
Battle of Bull Run
The Battle of Bull Run was a major battle in the Civil War and ended with a Confederate victory. Category: Politics. -
Jefferson Davis
Davis served as president of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865. Category: Society and Culture. -
Abraham Lincoln (Chapter 4 and 5)
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the USA and was president during the Civil War. He wrote many famous speeches including the Emancipation Proclamation and helped abolish slavery in America. Lincoln also started the Reconstruction Era which was carried on by Andrew Johnson. Category: Society and Culture. -
Battle of Shiloh
The Battle of Shiloh was fought in the Civil War in southwestern Tennessee that ended with a Union victory. Category: Politics -
Homestead Act
The Homestead Act opened up settlement in the western United States, allowing any American, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land. Category: Domestic Policy. -
Battle of Antietam
The Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest battle in the Civil War and ended with a Union victory. Category: Politics -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was a speech given by Abraham Lincoln stating that all slaves in rebellious states were now free. Category: Domestic Policy. -
Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg was a significant battle of the Civil War fought in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and ended with a Union victory. Category: Geography. -
Reconstruction
Reconstruction was the rebuilding of the South after the war and the readmitting of states back into the Union. Lincoln was first in charge of the reconstruction plans and then Andrew Johnson was in charge. Society: Domestic Policy. -
Lincoln's Assassination
Lincoln's assassination was in the Ford's theater. Lincoln was shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth. Category: Society and Culture. -
Andrew Johnson (Chapter 4 and 5)
Johnson was the 17th president of the USA. Johnson became president after Lincoln was assassinated and helped with the Reconstruction plan that helped the seceded states create new governments. Category: Society and Culture. -
Thirteenth Amendment
The 13th amendment of the Constitution abolished slaver for good in America. Category: Domestic Policy. -
Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan is a hate group that was against the rights of African Americans and people who supported the rights of African Americans. Category: Society and Culture. -
Civil Rights Act of 1866
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 declared that all persons born in the United States were now legally citizens without regard to race or previous condition. Category: Domestic Policy. -
Fourteenth Amendment
The 14th amendment gave all people born or naturalized in America citizenship (including African Americans). Category: Domestic Policy. -
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony was a woman suffragist who fought for the woman's right to vote. She founded the National Woman Suffrage Association. Category: Society and Culture. -
Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant was a union general in the Civil War and helped the union beat the confederacy. Grant was also the 18th president of the USA and helped reconstruct the nation.Grant wanted to limit the activities of terrorist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. Category: Society and Culture. -
Tenant Farming
Tenant farming was when farmers rented their land from the landowner and could grow any crop they wanted for money. Category: Economics. -
Second Industrial Revolution
The Second Industrial Revolution, also known as the Technological Revolution, was a phase of rapid industrialization in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Category: Technology and Innovation. -
Sharecropping
Sharecropping is a form of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their land. Category: Economics -
Liberal Republicans
The Liberal American Party was founded to oppose the re-election of Ulysses S. Grant and oppose the Radical Republican Party. Category: Politics. -
Fifteenth Amendment
The 15th amendment gave African Americans the right to vote in America. Category: Domestic Policy. -
Enforcement Acts
The Enforcement Acts were a series of three bills that enforced African Americans' right to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, and receive equal protection. Category: Domestic Policy. -
Women's Christian Temperance Union
The Women's Christian Temperance Union was an organization of women against the selling, buying, and consuming of alcohol in the United States. Category: Politics. -
John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller started the company Standard Oil and was noe of the biggest businessmen on the 1800s. Category: Society and Culture. -
Battle of Little Bighorn
The Battle of Little Bighorn was between the US army and the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes. At the end of the battle the US army had been defeated by the Native Americans. Category: Politics. -
George Armstrong Custer
George Armstrong Custer was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars. He died in the Battle of Little Bighorn. Category: Society and Culture. -
Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull was a Native American holy man who led his tribe in resistance against the United States. Sitting Bull participated in the Battle of Little Bighorn. Category: Society and Culture. -
Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes was the 19th president of the USA. He became president at the end of the Reconstruction Era that Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson created. Hayes helped start the civil service reform and attempted to reconcile the divisions the the South and the North. Category: Society and Culture. -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison was the man who improved the light bulb. Contrary to popular belief, he did not invent the light bulb. He also brought an electrical network to New York City. Category: Society and Culture. -
George Pullman
George Pullman was a designer and builder of sleeper car and made his fortune off the business. In 1881 he built a company town for his employees. Category: Society and Culture. -
Jim Crow Laws
The Jim Crow Laws were laws which helped discriminate and segregate the African-American community in the South. Category: Domestic Policy. -
James A. Garfield
Garfield was the 20th president of the USA. He was only 200 days into his presidency when he was assassinated. Before his presidency he was in the Senate and the House of Representatives. Category: Society and Culture. -
Chester Arthur
Arthur was an American politician and attorney who became the 21st president of the USA after James A. Garfield's assassination. He signed the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act and introduced better schemes to improve the monetary conditions of American society. Category: Society and Culture. -
Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland was an American lawyer and served as the 22nd and 24th president of the USA, the first president to serve two non-consecutive terms in office. As president he followed the policy of limited government and established the Interstate Commerce Act. He also repealed Sherman Silver Act in 1890. Category: Society and Culture. -
Dawes Act
The Dawes Act authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. Category: Domestic Policy. -
Settlement Houses-Jane Addams
Settlement houses are a place where volunteers offer immigrants services like English-language and job-training courses. Jane Addams was a woman who founded the Hull House which was one of the first American settlement houses. Category: Society and Culture. -
Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison was an American politician and was the 23rd president of the USA. He became the first president to die in office, not get assassinated. He addressed immigration issues and opened Ellis Island. He expanded the Navy and established the Coast Guard Academy. Category: Society and Culture. -
Progressivism
Progressivism is the support for social reforms. The Progressivist movement started in America during the late 19th century and the early 20th century. Category: Society and Culture. -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
The NAWSA was the combination of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association. They were founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Henry War Beecher. Category: Politics. -
Sherman Antitrust Act
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. Category: Domestic Policy. -
Wounded Knee Massacre
The battle between US military troops and Lakota Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota resulted in the deaths of 300 Sioux men, women, and children. The massacre at Wounded Knee was the last major battle of the Indian Wars of the late 19th century. Category: Politics. -
Populist Party
The Populist Party was a political party made up of farmers, labor leaders, and reformers who believed in the calling for free coinage of silver, abolition of national banks, a subtreasury scheme or some similar system, a graduated income tax, plenty of paper money,and government ownership of all forms of transportation and communication. Category: Politics. -
W.E.B. Du Bois
W.E.B. Du Bois was an African-American man who believed that African-Americans should strive for full rights immediately. He also was a co-founder for the NAACP. Category: Society and Culture. -
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington was a man born into slavery that believed that African-Americans had to accept segregation for the moment. He also believed they could improve their situation through farming and voicing their opinion. Category: Society and Culture. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. Ferguson was a Supreme Court case that gave states the right to pass laws allowing racial segregation in public and private institutions such as schools, public transportation, restrooms, and restaurants. Category: Politics. -
William McKinley
McKinley was the 25th president of the USA and started the Spanish American War. He also signed the Dingley Tariff Act which designed tariffs to a new high. McKinley also annexed Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Cuba. Category: Society and Culture. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a poor boy from Scotland who moved to America to work on the Pennsylvania Railroad.He founded his steel business and it became one of the top businesses in America. Category: Society and Culture. -
Labor Laws
Labor laws are the laws that relate to the rights of workers. Many labor laws began during the Progressive movement. Category: Domestic Policy. -
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th president of the USA. He was an author, statesman, explorer, soldier, and naturalist. He created the Square Deal and regulated big businesses and railroads. He established the Elkins Act, Hepburn Act, Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, Antiquities Act, and the Newland Reclamation Act. Category: Society and Culture. -
Square Deal
The Square Deal was the campaign slogan for Theodore Roosevelt which meant that each person is entitled to no more and no less than that of an honest deal. Category: Politics. -
NAACP
The NAACP is an organization that was created by W.E.B. Du Bois and other African Americans to help stop discrimination and fight for equal rights for African Americans in the US. Category: Politics. -
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair was a novelist who wrote The Jungle which told the secrets about the slaughter housed and meat packing factories. Category: Society and Culture. -
Brownsville Incident
The Brownsville Incident was when 12 members of the American military were accused of going on a shooting spree in Brownsville, Texas. Theodore Roosevelt dishonorably discharging them. The men were wrongfully accused and were honorably discharged in 1972. Category: Society and Culture. -
William Howard Taft
Taft was the 27th president of the USA. He created the Sixteenth Amendment and split the Republican Party in half due to his progressive views in the nation. Category: Society and Culture. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was a fire in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York City. The fire killed up to 140 women, men, and children. Category: Society and Culture. -
Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment stated that president William Howard Taft granted Congress the power to levy taxes based on an individual's income. Category: Domestic Policy. -
Federal Reserve Act
The Federal Reserve Act is a law that created a central fund from which banks could borrow to stop collapse when a financial panic would occur. Category: Domestic Policy. -
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the USA. He made a reform plan called the New Freedom and created the Federal Reserve Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act. He also helped women gain the vote and put America in World War 1. Category: Society and Culture. -
Seventeenth Amendment
The Seventeenth Amendment states that the voters, rather than the state legislatures, had the power to directly elect their US senators. Category: Domestic Policy. -
Clayton Antitrust Act
The Clayton Antitrust Act was an act that clarified and extended the Sherman Antitrust Act. It prohibited companies from buying the stock of competing companies and supported workers by making strikes and boycotts. Category: Domestic Policy. -
Prohibition
Prohibition was the law that stated that there would be no more selling, buying, or consuming of alcohol in America. Category: Domestic Policy. -
Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment banned the sale and drinking of alcohol in the United States. Category: Domestic Policy.