Civil War Causes
Civil War/Recon
Reconstruction
Manifest Destiny (aka Killing Indians)
Westward Expansion (More "Destiny")
100
A new (and improved) Fugitive Slave Act, no slave TRADE in DC, California a free state...these are all parts of this compromise.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
100
Besides better generals, a consensus for why they were fighting (SLAVERY), and mules...this was the only other advantage of the CSA.
What is cotton?
100
This system created a cycle of debt and depression for Southern tenant farmers after the Civil War.
What is share cropping? (and/or the Crop-Lien system)
100
The Great Sioux Reserve (most of South Dakota) was created by this treaty.
What is the Treaty of Fort Laramie?
100
This act passed during the Civil War allowed ANYONE for a small filing fee to purchase land in the West with only a few requirements.
What is the Homestead Act?
200
The residents of a territory (or state) determining the slave/free question is known as this.
What is popular sovereignty? I will accept "squatter sovereignty"
200
On January 1, 1863 Lincoln announced that all slaves were now free (in the rebel states) in this speech.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
The laws codified white supremacy and segregation.
What are the Black Codes?
200
The main source of food, clothing, shelter, i.e. livelihood of the nomadic Great Plains tribes.
What is the buffalo?
200
The government agency was established by Congress to reform the reservation system.
What is the Board of Indian Commissioners?
300
Lincoln made very clear in his first inaugural address that any civil war would NOT be about abolition, but about this.
What is preserving the union?
300
This battle was the turning point of the Civil War and last chance for a win by the South (the rest was defense and Total War) Also the first real loss by Lee...
What is Gettysburg?
300
This person's Reconstruction plan allowed for the Black codes, pardoned rebel leaders, allowed Confederates to stay in Congress, and barely required a Southern repudiation of secession.
Who is Andrew Johnson (I will reluctantly accept Lincoln)?
300
The purpose of this act was to break up reservations into individual parcels and assimilate Natives into white culture.
What is the Dawes Severalty Act?
300
To encourage female settlers to come West many western states - starting with Wyoming - included this in their state Constitutions.
What is women's suffrage?
400
Lincoln's election in 1860 (and SLAVERY) were reasons given for this FIRST state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
400
A Southerner who supported or participated in the Reconstruction.
What is a scalawag?
400
If one had to choose amongst the failures of the Reconstruction between: not fixing the economy, allowing for inexperienced black politicians to be elected, not fixing the education system, not industrializing, or not change Southern white attitudes or social structures...this would be the biggest failure (according to the AP test)
What is not changing attitudes, etc (which I agree with)?
400
The final act of the Second Sioux War was a massacre of mostly women and children in this valley.
What is Wounded Knee?
400
Helen Hunt Jackson wrote this book castigating the U. S. Government for it treatment of Natives (and breaking treaties).
What is 'A Century of Dishonor?'
500
Sorry - this is not really a Civil War cause - but it had to fit somewhere: Federal funding of roads and canals, high tariffs, and a national bank were parts of this system (name of person and name of system for correct answer)
What is Henry Clay's American System?
500
Andrew Johnson was impeached (almost removed) for violating the Tenure of Office Act by removing this person as Secretary of War.
Who is Edwin M Stanton?
500
In the Compromise of 1877 the Democrats agreed to this Republican becoming president in exchange for the end of Reconstruction.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
500
A ritual where Natives of many tribes would dance until they were dizzy and fell into a trance where they could see the future.
What is the Ghost Dance?
500
The transcontinental railroad was finally completed in this state.
What is Utah?
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