Civil War
What was the primary cause of the Civil War?
What is the issue of slavery?
What was the purpose of the Reconstruction era?
What is to rebuild the South and integrate formerly enslaved people into society?
What was the Homestead Act?
What is a law that provided 160 acres of land to settlers for a small fee?
What was the main reason many immigrants came to the United States in the late 19th century?
What is the search for better economic opportunities?
What is nativism?
Name the battle considered the turning point of the Civil War
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Which amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States?
What is the 14th Amendment?
Name the trail that pioneers used to travel westward.
What is the Oregon Trail?
Where did most immigrants arrive in the United States during this period?
What is Ellis Island?
A huge factor that led to the Civil War
What was Slavery?
Who was the President of the Confederate States?
Who is Jefferson Davis?
What were Black Codes?
What are laws passed in the South to restrict the rights of newly freed Black Americans?
What was the impact of the Transcontinental Railroad?
What is it connected the eastern U.S. with the western territories, facilitating travel and trade?
What were the conditions like for immigrants in urban areas?
What are crowded, poor living conditions often in tenements?
The term "push" factors in immigration refers to:
What is reasons to leave your home country?
What document freed the enslaved people in the Confederate states?
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln?
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
What is Manifest Destiny?
What is the belief that the expansion of the U.S. throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable?
What legislation restricted immigration in the 1920s?
What is the Immigration Act of 1924?
A person heading west in search of gold
What is a 49er?
What were the two main military strategies of the North and South during the Civil War?
What are the Anaconda Plan for the North and defensive strategies for the South?
What was the significance of the Freedmen's Bureau?
What is to assist freed slaves and poor whites in the South during the Reconstruction era?
For 10 days 187 men under Colonel William B. Travis held off the enemy in what battle?
What is the Battle of the Alamo?
How did immigration impact American culture?
What is it led to a diverse society with various cultural influences?
The time period to reintegrate the Confederate States back into the United States
What is Reconstruction?