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"St. Andrew's Cross in red on a field of white" describes the flag of this place.
Alabama
This Constitutional Amendment permanently ended slavery.
The 13th Amendment.
When oil was being refined in the early 1870's, this was the most important product.
Kerosene
In what Alabama town did the Klan cause a riot in 1870, as they attempted to assassinate the governor during a Republican rally.
EUTAW
He was a famous Black lawman who served in the Oklahoma territory for over 30 years.
Bass Reeves
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U. S. President during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
This Greene County prosecutor was murdered by the Klan in Eutaw in 1870 for trying to prosecute Klan members for murdering Black men.
Alexander Boyd
This man bought into the steel industry just after development of the Bessemer Process, He went on to become the owner of most of the Steel production in America by 1900.
Andrew Carnegie
What is the name of the town destroyed by a flood created by the collapse of a dam at the South Fork Country Club?
Johnstown
This section of Tulsa, OK was the most prosperous Black urban area in America by 1920.
Greenwood
He was the commanding general of the U. S. Army for the second half of the Civil War. As president, he tried to destroy the KKK. His presidential library is in Starkville, MS.
General U. S. Grant
During Reconstruction, in Greene County, Guileford Coleman and James Martin were freedmen who were lynched for doing this.
organizing Black voters
By 1910, this man controlled over 90% of oil refining in the United States.
J. D. Rockefeller
Too much investment in this industry caused some banks to fail, setting off the Panic of 1873.
Railroads
He was the commanding officer who led his men in an ambush at Little Bighorn in 1876.
George Custer
This state is directly east of Alabama.
Georgia
This Constitutional Amendment officially recognized the right of Black men to vote.
the 15th Amendment
This president was assassinated in 1881.
James Garfield
This event caused America's first Great Depression.
The Panic of 1873
This event caused America's first Great Depression.
The Panic of 1873.
In what state was the Battle of Antietam fought?
Virginia
Following the Civil War, southern states passed these laws designed to arrest formerly enslaved people and return them to work in the Planter's fields.
Black Codes
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Name three things that the employees wanted when they went on strike at Homestead Steel in 1892?
better pay, shorter hours, safer working conditions
This man was the manager of Carnegie Steel and the victim of a shooting/stabbing following the Homestead Steel Strike.
Henry Frick
Who was the president that invited Booker T Washington to dine with him in the White House?
Theodore Roosevelt