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100

This man ran against Samuel Tilden for President in 1876 and won the election by a Corrupt Bargain.

Rutherford B. Hayes

100

Which Constitutional Amendment set all slaves free, officially.

13th

100

This kind of cattle farming was helpful to cattle ranchers because the land used was owned by the federal government and was free to use.

Open Range

100

This chief led the Nez Perce tribe as he fought their move to a smaller reservation, but they were eventually exiled to Oklahoma.

Chief Joseph

100

Voldemort is the primary antagonist and the most powerful dark wizard in this series. His desire for immortality and pure-blood wizard dominance drives his desire to kill the character for whom the series is named.

Harry Potter

200

This Southerner who was loyal to the Union became president after Abraham Lincoln but was trusted by no one.

Andrew Johnson

200

The Homestead Act of 1862 gave people the right to own 160 acres in the West if they could live on it and farm it for _____ years.

5

200

____________ Bureau was established after the Civil War to assist freed slaves with education, jobs, housing, and food.

Freedmen's Buereau

200

Cultural Capitulation was the belief that some Americans had that Indians should become more ___________________.

American/European

200

Betty Ross is this Marvel character's true love, and he is green with envy that he can't be with her.

The Incredible Hulk

300

This man was the Presidential candidate in 1896 for the Democratic party, even though he fully embraced the Populist party platform.

William Jennings Bryan

300

In the Compromise of 1877 that cleared the way for Hayes to be President, _________ were removed from the South.

Federal Troops

300

In the Jim Crow Era after Reconstruction, name one of the things happening to former slaves.

The KKK is terrorizing them.

They are kept as 2nd class citizens by segregation.

They are stopped from voting or running for office.

300

Though Red Cloud signed an agreement for the Black Hills, this Indian chief refused to do so.  He was a spiritual leader of his tribe during the Battle of Little Big Horn.

Sitting Bull

300

This NBA player made Cleveland happy, then sad, then happy, then sad again with his coming to the Cavaliers and then leaving them, over and over.

LeBron James

400

Women of the Civil War acted as several important things. Name one.

Author

Soldier

Nurse

400

During Reconstruction, black Americans could vote and ________________ to office.

be elected 

400

This President so angered Congress with the way he handled Reconstruction that they voted to impeach him.

Andrew Johnson

400

The Battle at Wounded Knee could rightly be thought of as a ________________ of American Indians.

massacre

400

This well-known and sometimes infamous hip-hop star is able to sell his Yeezy shoes for stupid amounts of money.

Kanye West

500

Who shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater?

John Wilkes Booth

500

This Constitutional Amendment, sometimes called the Equal Protection clause, gave citizenship to all freed slaves.

14th

500

The discovery of these mines in a territory in the West increased the ____________________ and hastened their path to statehood.

Gold and Silver
500

The discovery of this caused a lot of conflict between white settlers and American Indians in the West.

Gold (or Silver)

500

This cartoon character is sad that he never gets to earn a medal until he teams up with a candy racer to save the day and learns the true meaning of being a hero.

Wreck it Ralph

600

This blond-haired soldier died at the Battle of Little Big Horn.

George Custer

600

Abraham Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction was called the ______ Plan.

10%

600

This form of work and living that was not really better than slavery was what awaited freed slaves in the South.

Sharecropping

600

The Dawes Act had the effect of taking ___________ out of the hands of American Indians.

Land

600

This Canadian/American producer and actor is starring in a new movie called It.

Ryan Reynolds

700

This was a name for farmers who tried to break the ground and farm the land in the Great Plains.

Sodbusters

700

If a President receives a large percentage of the vote, it is said they have a ____________ to carry out his policies.

Mandate

700

The invention of __________ put an end to the necessity of open-range cattle ranching.

barbed wire

700

Another name for the Battle of Little Big Horn is...

Custer's Last Stand

700

What TikTok influencer is famous for his mimes?

Khaby Lame

800

In the quickly-filling ______ of the US, law and order were often enforced by Vigilance Committees, self-appointed volunteers.

West

800

This Constitutional Amendment took away barriers to suffrage (voting rights) for freedmen.

15th

800

This group of people from the North moved to the South after the Civil War to take advantage of opportunities offered by Reconstruction.

Carpetbaggers

800

The nomad lifestyle of many Native American tribes was determined by the _____________, their main source of food.

Buffalo

800

This popular slang word means "amazing, really good."

Bussin'

900

This former Union General was elected to the Presidency after Andrew Johnson.

Ulysses S. Grant
900

The Wade-Davis Bill was a plan for Reconstruction put together by the ______________ Republicans. Lincoln vetoed it with a pocket veto.

Radical

900

This is what William Jennings Bryan referred to in his famous speech, The Cross of Gold. Western farmers hated it.

Gold Standard

900

At the Sand Creek Massacre, American Indians from these two tribes suffered a brutal two-day attack that left both American Indians and US soldiers dead. (Name one of the two tribes)

Cheyenne

Arapaho

900

The 2024 Summer Olympics will be held in _________.

Paris

1000

This organization was a horribly racist, violent secret group that terrorized the South for years.

KKK

1000

__________ Codes were introduced after the end of Reconstruction to oppress freedmen.

Black Codes

1000

This group of Southerners was loyal to the Union and tried to use Reconstruction for their own gain. 

Scalawags

1000

Red Cloud's War was an attempt by the Lakota Sioux to get the _________ to abandon its position in the area of the Bozeman Trail.

US Military

1000

The biggest roller coaster in the US is currently called Kingda Ka and is at this amusement park.

Six Flags

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