Great American Story Exam II Study Guide

Comprehensive vocabulary flashcards covering the American Story from the Sectional Crisis through the New Deal, based on the Land of Hope study guide.

John Calhoun

A key individual associated with the Sectional Crisis in the Land of Hope.

Harriet Tubman

An influential figure identified within the Sectional Crisis period.

John Brown

A major name associated with the Sectional Crisis.

Zachary Taylor

A notable figure from the era of the Sectional Crisis.

Fredrick Douglass

A prominent individual identified in the study of the Sectional Crisis.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Author associated with the Sectional Crisis period.

Stephen Douglas

The political figure responsible for the Kansas-Nebraska Act of $1854$.

Charles Sumner

A name categorized under the period of the Sectional Crisis.

Manifest Destiny

A concept identifying American expansion during the Sectional Crisis.

Republican Party

A political group that emerged during the Sectional Crisis.

Copperheads

A group associated with the Sectional Crisis era.

Abolitionists

A group dedicated to ending slavery during the Sectional Crisis.

Abraham Lincoln

President during the Civil War and Reconstruction who won the election of $1860$.

George McClellan

A major figure associated with the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Ulysses Grant

Former general and president who used a distinct approach to managing the South during Reconstruction.

William Sherman

A key military figure during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Jefferson Davis

A primary figure identifying with the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Robert E. Lee

A major military leader for the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

‐Stonewall‐ Jackson

A prominent Southern general during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Andrew Johnson

President during Reconstruction who was subject to impeachment.

Freedman’s Bureau

A federal government agency established to manage the South after the Civil War.

Ku Klux Klan

A group identified with the period of Civil War and Reconstruction.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

A key figure of the Gilded Age.

Andrew Carnegie

A major industrialist associated with the Gilded Age.

John D. Rockefeller

An influential individual of the Gilded Age.

J.P. Morgan

A prominent financier from the Gilded Age.

Eugene V. Debs

A name associated with social and labor issues in the Gilded Age.

Sitting Bull

A figure representing the changing American frontier during the Gilded Age.

Chief Joseph

A leader associated with the changing American frontier in the Gilded Age.

Fredrick Jackson Turner

A figure identifying the Gilded Age and the frontier.

William Jennings Bryan

A key figure in the Progressivism movement.

William McKinley

A prominent individual identified with Progressivism.

Edward Bellamy

A figure associated with the Progressivism era.

Theodore Roosevlet

Progressive president who advocated ‐the Square Deal‐ and ‐The Strenuous Life‐.

William Howard Taft

A notable figure in the era of Progressivism.

Woodrow Wilson

Progressive president who passed policies to make the world safe for democracy after the Great War.

Margaret Sanger

An individual associated with Progressivism.

Al Capone

A name identifying with the $1920s$ and the New Deal era.

Warren G. Harding

A president during the $1920s$.

Calvin Coolidge

A presidential figure of the $1920s$.

Henry Ford

An industrialist who shaped consumerism in the $1920s$.

Herbert Hoover

President who responded to the Great Depression and argued against the New Deal.

Al Smith

A figure from the $1920s$ and New Deal period.

Franklin Roosevelt

President who attempted to rescue the American economy with the New Deal.

National Recovery Administration

An agency and policy tried during the New Deal.

Works Progress Administration

A major policy agency established during the New Deal.

Mexican War of $1846$

A conflict that sharpened the tension around the issue of slavery.

Compromise of $1850$

An effort to handle the tension between the North and South regarding slavery.

Dred Scott decision

A Supreme Court decision that impacted the status of slavery in the Union.

Square Deal

The progressive vision that came to life during the presidency of Theodore Roosevlet.

The Strenuous Life

A primary source by Theodore Roosevlet arguing how good Americans and a great America should be.

What is Progress?

A work by Woodrow Wilson describing the role and nature of government and progress.

$14th$ and $15th$ Amendments

Legislation that served as a kind of ‐second founding‐ for the United States.

$18th$ Amendment

The constitutional amendment that established Prohibition, leading to unintended consequences.