Required Skills
Early 1800s
Antebellum
Civil War
Reconstruction
100
prejudice in favor of one side over another.
What is bias
100
A war with American and Great Britain. Caused by England wanting to take control of America again and impressment.
What is the War of 1812?
100
A machine made to pick the seeds out of cotton to reduce manual labor.
What is the cotton gin?
100
The supreme court ruled a man a piece of property and that he had no right to a court case because he was African American.
What is the outcome of the Dred Scott supreme court case?
100
The time period after the civil war focusing on rebuilding the Union.
What is Reconstruction?
200
A cartoon made to show opinions on important matters in politics.
What is a political cartoon?
200
Kidnapping of adults to force them to serve in the military.
What is impressment?
200
The time period before the civil war.
What is Antebellum?
200
The North's plan to create a naval blockade to limit the number of supplies for the south.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
200
The system where land owners would rent out pieces of land to freedmen and poor whites for a percentage of the crops grown.
What is sharecropping?
300
Your opinion on a matter.
What is a claim/thesis?
300
An increase of work being done by machines and factories instead of humans.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
300
The south's economy revolved around ...
What is Agriculture?
300
The act of separating away from something.
What is secession?
300
An organization that helped freedmen adjust to life after slavery.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
400
A graphic representation of a sequence of events as a line.
What is a timeline?
400
A principle of US policy that stated any intervention by external powers in the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US.
What is the Monroe Doctrine
400
A boat powered by steam that could go against the current.
What is the Steamboat?
400
The Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln made to free the slaves in enemy (southern) territory.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
Laws passed by state governments to restrict the rights of freedmen.
What is the Black Codes?
500
Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
What is propaganda?
500
The last battle of the war of 1812 which occurred 2 weeks after the treaty of Ghent was signed.
What is the battle of New Orleans?
500
The American belief that they had a right to all of the land from the Atlantic the the pacific ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
500
The election right before the civil war that resulted in Abraham Lincoln winning the presidency.
What is the election of 1860?
500
Entailed Hayes winning the presidency in exchange for the end of Reconstruction.
What is the reason Reconstruction ended?
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