Unit Two: Game Two

#1

100

Who was the President of the U.S. during the Civil War?

Abraham Lincoln

200

Who had one of the most scandal-filled Presidencies in U.S. history?

Ulysses Grant

300

Who became President after Lincoln was assassinated?

Andrew Johnson (must have stated full name)

400

What happened in California about a year after the U.S. got the land?

gold was discovered there, which caused the California Gold Rush to occur

500

Who was the first U.S. President to be impeached?

Andrew Johnson (must have stated full name)

#2

100

In what year did the Civil War begin?

1861

200

In what year did the Civil War end?

1865

300

In what year did Lincoln first become President of the U.S.?

1860

400

In what year did the Reconstruction Era begin?

1865

500

In what year did the Reconstruction Era end?

1877

#3

100

Which territory became a U.S. state during the Civil War because President Lincoln thought it would help him win reelection?

Nevada

200

Which U.S. state formed during the Civil War by splitting away from a Confederate state so that they could rejoin the U.S.?

West Virginia

300

Which U.S. state was the first to secede from the U.S.?

South Carolina

400

Explain in detail how the U.S. got the Oregon Territory.

President Polk made a deal with Britain to split the Oregon Country. The U.S.'s half of the Oregon Country became the Oregon Territory.

500

List the Border States.

Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, West Virginia, Missouri

#4

100

Probably the biggest cause of the Civil War was that the South thought the U.S. Government was going to outlaw something that the South did not want outlawed. What was the "something?"

slavery/owning slaves

200

Which Native American tribe had about 25% of its tribe die on the Trail of Tears?

the Cherokee

300

One of the causes of the Civil War pertained to the fact that the North and the South had very different cultures and did not trust each other. What was occurring in the years before the Civil War that made the North and the South even more different from each other?

the North began to industrialize and the South did not

400

Although this was not a cause of the Civil War, what triggered/resulted in the South firing the first shots of the Civil War? What were they upset about when they started the Civil War?

President Lincoln would not remove the U.S. military from the Confederacy

500

One of the causes of the Civil War pertained to the belief that the U.S. Government/federal government should not, for the most part, be able to tell the states what to do. Many Southerners had this belief. What is this belief called?

states' rights

#5

100

What was the U.S. sometimes called during the Civil War?

the Union

200

What does Reconstruction refer to?

an era in U.S. history when the U.S. was rebuilding the nation after the Civil War

300

Many Americans who died during the Civil War were not part of the military. What are people who do not belong to the military or police called?

civilians

400

What happened to mark the end of Reconstruction?

the U.S. military was removed from the South

500

List the two main beliefs of the Democratic Party when it was first formed in the early to mid-1800s.

it was in favor of slavery and it was in favor of states having a lot of power and the U.S. Government not having much power