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This group of American painters was influenced by the War of 1812 and European Romantic Movement. They painted landscapes like Niagara Falls, Catskills, White Mountains, Rocky Mountains

What was the Hudson River School

100

United States general who was a hero of the War of 1812 and infamously oversaw the Trail of Tears

Who is Winfield Scott

100

This 1864 bill created a framework for Reconstruction and re-admittance of the Confederate states to the Union

What is the Wade-Davis Bill

100

These ironclad warships went head to head in 1862

What are the Monitor and the Merrimack

200

This value system idealized women's roles as devoted wives and mothers, emphasizing their place in the home as moral guardians of society

What is the cult of domesticity

200

This artist and member of Hudson River School that showed emotion of nature with a special focus on birds and animals

Who is John James Audobon

200
A phony construction company set up to build the Union Pacific Railroad, had been financed with fraudulent bonds and used stocks to bribe government officials.

What is the Credit Mobilier scandal

200

The war was financed primarily using this form of revenue

What are bonds

300

Henry Lloyd Garrison's staunch abolitionist newspaper

What is "The Liberator"

300

Militant abolitionist, author of "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World" who called for an immediate, violent end to white supremacy

Who is David Walker

300

This 1872 act signed by President Grant removed most of the penalties from Confederate soldiers

What is the Amnesty Act

300

Put in these battles in chronological order: Antietam, Gettysburg, Vicksburg

What is Antietam, Vicksburg, Gettysburg

400

Western New York known for sermons that preached about hellfire and damnation during the Second Great Awakening

What is the Burned-Over District

400

Presbyterian minister and leader in the Second Great Awakening in the United States. He has been called the "Father of Old Revivalism"

Who is Charles G. Finney

400

This 1862 act transferred substantial public acreage to the state governments for them to sell and finance public education

What is the Morrill Land Grant Act

400

Lincoln's opponent in the election of 1864

Who is General Mcclellan 

500

This state prohibited the sale and manufacture of alcohol with "The law of Heaven Americanized" in 1851

What is Maine

500

Most prominent Copperhead, exiled by Lincoln to the Confederacy

Who is Clement Vallandigham

500

When this percent of voters in 1860 took the oath in any state, those loyal voters could set up a state government

What is Lincoln's 10% Reconstruction Plan

500

This monumental Supreme Court decision held that the literacy test for African American voters was constitutional

What is Williams v. Mississippi (1898)

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