Construct a FIVE-ARC chronology of US 1850-1900 placing Sectional Crisis, Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow + Indian Wars + Chinese Exclusion, and Industrial-Gilded Age on one timeline — and argue the war's primary cause was slavery using secession-declaration primary-source evidence
Exercise
Difficulty 1
~3 min
hist.g8.f.ex_01
Matching
Prompt
Match each event to its thematic arc: (a) Compromise of 1850; (b) Emancipation Proclamation Jan 1 1863; (c) Compromise of 1877; (d) Plessy v. Ferguson May 18 1896; (e) Carnegie Steel sold to JP Morgan 1901.
How it's presented
mode
text
Answer criteria
type
matching
correct
- a
- Sectional Crisis 1850-1860
- b
- Civil War 1861-1865
- c
- Reconstruction 1865-1877
- d
- Jim Crow 1877-1900
- e
- Industrial-Gilded Age 1865-1900
Hints
- Sectional crisis includes events 1850-1860 leading to war.
- Industrial-Gilded Age overlaps with Reconstruction (1865-1900).
Misconceptions to watch
- Confusing Compromise of 1850 with Compromise of 1877
- Treating Plessy 1896 as part of Reconstruction
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