This person was the highest ranking general of the U.S. Army but eventually left his post to become the highest ranking general of the Confederate Army for the duration of the Civil War.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
100
These are the dates, one the beginning, one the end, of the duration of the Civil War.
What are 1861 and 1865?
100
Issued by President Lincoln, this freed slaves in confederate states.
What is the Emacipation Proclamation?
100
This development led to further migration of people to the west and also led to the passing of standardized time zones across the American continent.
What is the (transcontinental) railroad?
200
This person invented the idea of power plants so that electricity could be widely used.
Who is Thomas Edison?
200
This person was responsible for inventing the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
200
This war, caused by the issue of states rights and slavery, was the bloodiest in America's history. If you get this wrong, I will cry.
What is the Civil War?
200
This law officially ended slavery throughout the entire United States.
What is the thirteenth amendment?
200
These are the two different methods that businesses used to create a monopoly.
What is vertical and horizontal integration?
300
This group of people's goal was to discriminate against freed African Americans in sometimes violent ways. They wanted to keep the white man superior in the South.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
300
These two people were generals of the Union Army during the Civil War.
Who are....
300
This period of American History ended in a compromise when Hayes was made president in exchange for the removal of Union troops from the South.
What is Reconstruction?
300
This government agency tried to ease the transition of newly freed slaves into American society.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
300
These are three of the major advantages the North had during the Civil War.
What are....?
400
This person was the first president to be impeached. His reconstruction plan was scrapped by Congress so that he Radical Republicans plan could be instituted.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
400
This group of people believed in more harshly punishing the southern states and their people before allowing them back into the Union.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
400
This crucial strike, named after a certain type of RR car, shut down the nation's railways and ended when federal troops got involved.
What is the Pullman Strike?
400
This law gave the rights to vote to all men, regardless of race or ethnicity.
What is the fifteenth amendment?
400
This battle was one of the few that took place in a Northern state because Robert E. Lee wanted to deliver a knockout blow and hopefully gain European support.
What is Gettysburg?
500
These two terms, one negative and one positive, described the super-rich industrialists and financiers of the Gilded Age.
What are Captains of Industry and Robber Barons?
500
These men were two of the most famous rich guys of the early 1900s.
Who are....?
500
This battle was the single bloodiest day in America's history.
What is Antietam?
500
This law tried to limit the ability of large companies to turn into monopolies and restrict competition. It was designed to protect American consumers but aided in the federal breakup of labor strikes.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
500
This term describes northerners that moved to the South after the Civil War to try and make money.