Which constitutional amendment, ratified in 1865, abolished slavery throughout the United States?
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Free, citizen, vote: three amendments
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The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified in 1868, is most significant for establishing which constitutional principle?
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President Andrew Johnson was impeached by the House of Representatives in 1868 primarily for violating which law?
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The Compromise of 1877 effectively ended Reconstruction by doing what?
In Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court upheld which doctrine?
The Pendleton Civil Service Act of 1883 was a response to what event?
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The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was designed to do what?
The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 created which federal regulatory body?
The Populist (People's) Party of the 1890s most strongly advocated for which monetary policy?
In Loewe v. Lawlor (1908), the Danbury Hatters' case, the Supreme Court held that a union's nationwide boycott was an illegal restraint of trade under which law?
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President Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program was known by what name?
The Seventeenth Amendment, ratified in 1913, changed American government by providing for what?
The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was significant because it did what?
Woodrow Wilson's 1912 reform agenda, emphasizing tariff reduction, banking reform, and antitrust action, was called what?
Chapter 1: Reconstruction and the New South (1865–1896)
1.1 Presidential vs. Radical Reconstruction and the Amendments
The Eighteenth Amendment, ratified in 1919, established what national policy?
The Nineteenth Amendment, ratified in 1920, accomplished what?
Social Developments
Which New Deal program, created in 1935, established old-age pensions and unemployment insurance?
In Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States (1935), the Supreme Court did what?
1.2 Southern Reconstruction: Black Politics, Scalawags, and Carpetbaggers
President Franklin Roosevelt's 1937 'court-packing' plan was an attempt to do what?
The Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act) of 1935 protected which right for workers?
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) overturned which earlier ruling?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is best known for doing what?
1.3 Collapse of Reconstruction and the Compromise of 1877
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 primarily aimed to do what?
President Lyndon Johnson's domestic program aimed at eliminating poverty and racial injustice was called what?
Medicare and Medicaid, created in 1965, were designed to provide what?
The Watergate scandal led directly to which event in 1974?
1.4 Jim Crow, Disfranchisement, and Early African American Responses
President Ronald Reagan's 1980s program of tax cuts, deregulation, and reduced domestic spending rested on which economic theory?
The Twenty-second Amendment, ratified in 1951, established what?
In Roe v. Wade (1973), the Supreme Court ruled on which issue?
The Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act, both passed in 1906, are examples of what kind of Progressive reform?
Chapter 2: Westward Expansion and Industrialization (1865–1900)
2.1 Railroads, Mining, Cattle, and the Homestead Act
During the late nineteenth century, the 'New Immigration' increasingly came from which regions?
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was significant because it was the first federal law to do what?
The Great Migration of the early twentieth century refers to the movement of which group?
Booker T. Washington's approach to advancing African Americans, expressed in his 1895 Atlanta Compromise speech, emphasized what?
2.2 Federal Native American Policy: Plains Wars, Wounded Knee, and Dawes
W.E.B. Du Bois and the Niagara Movement helped found which organization in 1909?
The American Federation of Labor, led by Samuel Gompers, focused primarily on what?
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 led to reforms in what area?
Jane Addams is best known for founding which institution in 1889?
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