This was the plan of the Union to squeeze the life out of the Confederacy by blocking all trading ports.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
100
This term describes the act of charging a president with a crime.
What is impeachment?
100
This was the year in which gold was discovered in California causing a mass migration to the west.
What is 1849?
100
This term describes one business buying up or controlling all competitors to eliminate competition in order to control pricing.
What is a monopoly?
100
This state broke away from the rest of the state during the Civil War due to disagreements regarding slavery.
What is West Virginia?
200
This was the capital of the Confederacy during the Civil War?
What is Richmond?
200
This group of congressmen disliked President Johnson's plan for Reconstruction.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
200
This US military officer was killed as he tried to seize the lands of Sitting Bull in South Dakota?
What is General Custer?
200
Following the Civil War the south built many of these types of factories in order to supplement their agrarian way of life.
What are textile mills?
200
Due to the fact that most mills relied on hydroelectricity early mills were located next to these.
What are rivers?
300
This President was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth as he watched a play in Washington DC.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
This group of people decided to move from the North to help former slaves in the South achieve rights.
What are carpetbaggers?
300
These were areas of land set aside for Native Americans especially in Oklahoma.
What are reservations?
300
These are groups of workers who ban together to fight against employers who offer long working hours, unfair treatment, and unsafe working conditions.
What are unions?
300
This was the state where many Native Americans were moved after their lands were confiscated by the US?
What is Oklahoma?
400
This military base in Charleston, South Carolina was the site of a conflict when Union troops refused to leave their post in the harbor?
What is Fort Sumter?
400
This organization arose to scare blacks into submission and keep them from voting with their newly granted rights.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
400
This group of Native Americans lived in modern day Oregon and were moved east to Oklahoma when they would not turn over their lands.
Who are the Nez Perce?
400
These are the two industries that grew rapidly in North Carolina following the Civil War?
What are textiles and furniture?
400
This was the first major battle in the Civil War and it is located in Virginia near the US capital of Washington DC.
What is Manassas?
500
These are three of the major reasons which caused the outbreak of the Civil War.
What are economical differences, slavery, and state's rights?
500
While the 13th Amendment outlawed slavery, it was the 14th Amendment that really angered some white Southerners because it gave African Americans this right.
What is the right to vote?
500
This was the site of the connection between the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads when constructing the Transcontinental Railroad.
What is Promentory Point?
500
This wealthy NC man was responsible for creating a tobacco monopoly in Durham where he later encouraged a college to relocate.
Who is Duke?
500
This is the state in which Promentary Point is located?