This crop is said to have "saved" Jamestown and the Chesapeake.
What is Tobacco
100
Henry David Thoreau practiced this philosophy of a public refusal to obey unjust laws.
What is Civil Disobedience or Passive Resistance.
100
This group was the backbone of the Republican party in the south, providing 8 out of 10 Republican votes.
What is freedmen.
100
This caused many people to migrate west to California.
What is the California Gold Rush.
100
Which group made up most of the populist party.
What is farmers.
200
Conflict aroused in this war between English settlers and an Indian tribe as a result of competition over trade with the Dutch in New Netherland, and friction over land.
What is the Pequot War
200
His efforts resulted in the formation of the Church of Latter Day Saints or the Mormons, in upstate New York.
Who is Joseph Smith.
200
This president owed his victory to the votes of former slaves in the election of 1868.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
200
This came to an end due to fencing of the plains with barbed wire.
What is open-range ranching.
200
In this case, the Supreme Court held that separate but equal facilities for different races were constitutional.
What is Plessy v. Furguson.
300
This group wrote "rather than freedom, we'll part with our tea," growing sentiment for a boycott.
What is the Daughters of Liberty.
300
In the mid-nineteenth century these were: temperance, education, peace, the care of the poor, the handicapped, and the mentally ill, the treatment of criminals, the rights of women, and many more.
What are the Reform Movements.
300
The president associated with the "sellout of 1876" was...
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes.
300
This historian argued that the frontier shaped America by stimulating individualism, nationalism, and democracy.
Who is Fredrick Jackson Turner.
300
The purpose of this act was to fill some government jobs on the basis of competitive exams.
What is the Pendleton Act of 1883
400
His pamphlet, Common Sense, helped change the American outlook on war towards what he considered the root of the problem, the English constitution itself.
Who is Thomas Paine.
400
The "Declaration of Sentiments" emerged out of this meeting in New York.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention.
400
This amendment guaranteed equal protection under the law for every American citizen.
What is the 14th Amendment.
400
These two factors did the most to stimulate rapid western settlement.
What are the Homestead Act and Railroad.
400
Politicians of the Gilded Age used this to dispense government jobs for political purposes.
What is the Spoils System.
500
In 1786, this event concentrated on preventing the collection of debts, private or public,and used force to keep courts from sitting and sheriffs from selling confiscated property.
What is Shays's Rebellion.
500
She wrote the most powerful document of abolitionist propaganda, which first appeared in a serial in an antislavery weekly.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe.
500
This denied black Americans the franchise in the South.
What is the Grandfather Clause.
500
This was caused by the United States's government's outlawing of the Indian Sun (Ghost) dance in 1890.
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee.
500
These two acts proved to be ineffective in the regulation of business abuses.
What is the Interstate-Commerce Act and the Sherman Anti-trust Act.