The West
Road to the Civil War
The Civil War
Reconstruction
Industry
100
The decimation of bison in the Great Plains affected this native group negatively.
Who are the Comanche?
100
This decision blocked Congress from excluding slavery in any territory, and denied the claim that black men had any rights.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
100
This document abolished slavery in the Confederacy?
What is Emancipation Proclamation?
100
It was the agency set up during Reconstruction to help newly freed slaves.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
100
His Standard Oil was a good example of horizontal integration in business.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
200
This term was used to refer to people who travelled to the west via wagon trails.
What is "overlanders"?
200
This 1854 act created two new territories out of Indian land and left the issue of slavery to be decided by a popular referendum.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
200
The South's attack of this site officially started the war.
What is Fort Sumter, South Carolina?
200
This practice, predominant in the South among ex-slaves, often left laborers indebted to landlords.
What is sharecropping?
200
It is the term used to refer to a governing approach towards business that advocates little regulation.
What is "laissez-faire"?
300
This law marked the first time a specific immigrant group was banned from migrating to the United States.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
300
It required individual citizens to help return runaway slaves (year needed).
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
300
The Civil War ended on this year.
What is 1865?
300
It is the term often used for Democrats in government that sought to bring back the antebellum social structures of the South.
Who are the Redeemers?
300
It was the term used by Mark Twain to describe the latter half of the 19th Century.
What is the "Gilded Age"?
400
It was the act that ended federal recognition of Indian sovereignty and divided their land into 160-acre parcels.
What is the Dawes Act?
400
John Brown's raid of this federal arsenal divided the nation further over the issue of slavery.
What is Harpers Ferry, Virginia?
400
This amendment was passed in Congress before the end of the war.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
400
Under the "Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction," this plan for reconstruction was put forth.
What is Lincoln's 10 Percent Plan?
400
It is the term used to describe a business system that allowed for the control of various phases of production.
What is vertical integration?
500
This treaty ended the war between the United States and Mexico.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848?
500
This president's response to the South's move to secede was characterized by inaction.
Who is President James Buchanan?
500
Lincoln jailed pro-South officials in these four states to prevent them from seceding.
What are Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, and Kentucky.
500
It was the legal standard set by the Supreme Court decision in the Homer Plessy case.
What is "separate but equal" or "equal but separate"?
500
It was the plan set forth by the Populist Party in 1892.
What is the Omaha Platform?
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