Geography
Government
American Civil War
Reconstruction
Westward Expansion
Industrialization and Immigration
100
Contact people in one area of the world have with people in other areas...
What is movement?
100
Our Constitution contains several Basic Principles (ideas) that guided those that designed the new government. One of these principles is the Separation of Powers. Which description describes the Separation of Powers?
Power in the new government is divided between three branches.
100
The differences that developed between the regions of the United States during the early 1800s were called...
What is Sectionalism?
100
The 12-year period that followed the American Civil War was called...
What is the Reconstruction?
100
Which of the following DID NOT bring Americans to the "Great American Desert" during the late 1800s?
California Gold Rush
Comstock Load
Transcontinental Railroad
Homestead Act
What is the California Gold Rush?
100
A process for quickly & cheaply making steel
What was the Bessemer Process?
200
How people use and influence their natural surroundings and how the natural surroundings affect people...
What is Human and Environmental Interaction?
200
Neither branch of the new government is more powerful than the others and they maintain balance by exerting power over each other. This describes what concept?
What are Checks and Balances?
200
The political party that was formed in opposition to slavery was called...
What is the Republican Party?
200
President Lincoln's plan to reunite the North and South called for "amnesty". Amnesty means...
What is forgiveness?
200
The invention that led to an end of the Open Range in the late-1800s was...
What is...
200
What was the main reason millions of immigrants came to the U.S. in the late 1800s?
The rapid growth of America's economy provided millions of low skill jobs.
300
The theme of Location can be divided into two parts (Absolute Location & Relative Location). Tell whether the following is an example of Absolute Location or Relative Location...Hershey, PA is found at 45 degrees North latitude, 70 degrees West longitude.
What is absolute location?
300
Power in the new government is divided between the Federal Government & the States. What is this describing?
What is federalism?
300
What event that took place in late 1860 directly led to the Southern states to beginning to secede?
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?
300
Why was President Lincoln unable to carry out his plan for reuniting the United States after the Civil War?
300
When supply is low, and the demand is high...
What is a good is very expensive?
300
Henry Ford is one of the most important innovators from the Industrial Age? What did Henry Ford do that makes him so important?
He developed a new way to make automobiles quickly & cheaply--the moving assembly line.
400
This picture is an example of which Theme of Geography?
What is Movement?
400
Which of the following is NOT guaranteed by the First Amendment?
Freedom of Speech
Freedom of Religion
Right to Privacy
Right to Protest
What is Right to Privacy?
400
Why was it a problem for the United States in the early 1800's each time an American territory applied to become a new state?
Each time a new territory joined it threw off the balance between slave states & free states.
400
What is the message of the following political cartoon:
What is--Voting was made very difficult for Freedmen after the Civil War.
400
In general, the policy of the United States government toward Native Americans in the West was to...
What is move them onto reservations and open their homelands to white settlers?
400
How did workers in the late 1800s respond to the poor working conditions of the factories?
They formed unions to try to force the factory owners to change the factory conditions.
500
Identify the feature labeled "D" on the map.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
500
The citizens of the United States are in control of our new government. This describes...
What is Popular Sovereignty?
500
According to many Americans who believed in the Theory of States' Rights, Southern states had the right to slavery because...
The Constitution (in 1860) did not ban slavery, so states could individually decide how to handle slavery.
500
In 1896, the United States Supreme Court ruled on the case known as Plessy v. Ferguson. This case involved whether or not it was legal (ok) for states to make laws separating whites and blacks. What was the Supreme Court's decision in this case?
What is--States are allowed to separate people based on their race?
500
What is the primary message of the famous painting found below? 
What is--It was God's will for America to expand across the continent?
500
Which statement below best describes the meaning of this picture?
United, workers are more powerful
600
A narrow strip of water that connects two larger bodies of water is called...
What is a strait?
600
In the introduction to the Declaration of Independence it says, "When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another..." What does this phrase this mean?
What is--It is required that the United States break free from Great Britain?
600
At the time of the American Revolution in 1776, Thomas Paine published a pamphlet entitled "Common Sense". This pamphlet was read by thousands of colonists and listed the wrongs committed by King George III. It angered Americans and encouraged people living in America to rise up against Britain and the king. What was the "Common Sense" of the Civil War period?
600
Reconstruction was sometimes viewed as "slavery without the chains" by Freedmen of the South. What does the phrase "slavery without chains" mean?
What is--Very little had changed for Freedmen after the Civil War even though slavery was technically over?
600
Travel across the nation became both safe and quick.
People in small communities like Moberly could now get products (like oranges) from far-away locations.
Mail-order catalogs like Sears, Roebuck & Co. became a reliable way to purchase goods.
Settlement in the west increased dramatically.
What are effects of the Transcontinental Railroad?
600
Many new immigrants looked up to and admired Carnegie Steel's owner Andrew Carnegie. What is the primary reason many NEW immigrants would admire Carnegie in the late 1800s?
He immigrated to the U.S. and his life showed that social mobility was possible.