Chapter 9: Expanding Markets and Moving West
In 1848 after the USA won the Mexican-American war, gold was discovered and caused mass migration. What is this specific gold rush called?
What is the California Gold Rush?
What is the name of the system that was run by Conductors to help enslaved African-Americans to escape the south and go north?
What is the Underground Railroad?
What was the first battle of the Civil War?
What is Fort Sumter?
Define impeachment.
What is when the House of Representatives accuses a government official of wrongdoing and they go to trial in the Senate?
After a scorch-earth campaign, the Navajo were forced to starvation and forced to walk 250-450 miles to Bosque Redondo. What is this walk called?
What is the Navajo Long Walk?
ALPHA ANSWER!!!!!
What is Alpha's favorite color?
What is orange?
What is the name of the escaped slave and popular abolitionist who fought against slavery through political action.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
1. Rutherford B. Hayes
2. Federal troops
3. Reconstruction
When the Sioux preformed a Ghost dance for spiritual aid in 1890, US troopers killed over 150 Sioux. What is the name of this massacre?
What is the Massacre at Wounded Knee?
When Santa Anna led his troops to this location, 200 people died defending it and resulted in a victory for Mexico. What is this location called?
What is the Alamo?
What is the name of the court case in 1857 where an enslaved man argued for his freedom because he was taken to free land.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
Which Lieutenant General in the Union Army became president in 1869-77 and passed the 15th Amendment and the KKK Act?
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
What were the radical republicans and who was their leader?
They controlled Congress by 1866 and wanted both harsher punishments for the south and more civil rights.
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?
Crazy Horse and General Custer were participants in this battle in 1876.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
This purchase established the current boundary between the United States and Mexico. But, it caused problems for a certain Native American tribe, what is the name of this purchase and the tribe?
What is the Gadsen Purchase?
What is the Tohono O'Odham?
This compromise resolved the border dispute between Texas and New Mexico, allowed for California to be admitted as a free state, and caused the Fugitive Slave Act to become stricter. What is the name of this compromise?
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Name the battle that happened on September 18th, 1862 that was fought in Maryland, was fought because of the Congressional election, caused McClellan to be fired, and was the bloodiest day in American history.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
List the 3 Amendments that were passed during this time period and their purposes.
13th: Abolished slavery
14th: Citizenship granted for all born on US soil
15th: Cannot disenfranchise based on race
What is the 2nd Treaty of Fort Laramie?
This treaty caused the USA to gain the Rio Grande border, California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. What is the name of this treaty?
What is the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo?
Who is the senator from Illinois who was for popular sovereignty, ran and won against Lincoln in the Senate, and was the northern democrat delegate for the election of 1860?
Who is Steven Douglas?
What is the name of the total war military campaign led by William T. Sherman that pressured the Confederacy to surrender?
What is Sherman's March to Sea?
What is the name of 17th president who was impeached and reconstruction plan was: required the South to accept abolition but did not reinforce; nothing about Freedmen; and sympathetic to poor whites and pardoned thousands of ex-Confederates?
Who is Andrew Johnson?
What did the Dawes Severalty Act do?
It Americanized Native Americans by sending Native children to boarding schools. It allowed to sell off reservation land to individuals and 2/3rds of land went to white settlers