American Indian Studies
The growing of beans, squash, and corn was named after this numeric group.
What is the 3 sisters agriculture?
The invention of this allowed ranchers to protect their cattle from the buckaroos.
What is barbed wire?
This line banned all slavery north of it thanks to the Missouri Compromise.
What is the 36°30'?
This act allowed the US to draft males to fight in the Civil War.
What is the Conscription Act?
According to the 13th amendment, all slavery was banned excepttttt if it was used as this.
What is a punishment for crime?
As long as a native did this, they would be given their own plot of land thanks to the Dawes Act.
What is agriculture?
This first territorial acquisition of the US happened between a morally-challenged Jefferson and a broke Napoleon.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This state was admitted as a free state once Missouri threw off the balance.
What is Maine?
Although the overall message shifted, Lincolns original goal with the war was this.
What is "Preserve the Union"?
This idea was "too radical" for the radical republicans to continue pursuing after Andrew Johnson overturned it.
What is 40 Acres and a Mule?
This "bounty hunter" killed over 4,280 buffalo in an 18 month span.
Who is Buffalo Bill?
Due to fraudulent claims, only this amount of 500 million acres of land went to homesteaders from the Homestead Act.
What is 80 million?
This militant abolitionist led a revolution of 21 men to Harper Ferry in order to arm an army of runaway slaves.
Who is John Brown?
Even though the election seemed it would be close, this man, who was Lincoln's opponent and previous general in chief for the army, was blown out 212-21.
Who was George B. McClellan?
Due to cotton still being the backbone of the South's economy and their lack of education, African Americans felt forced into this parasitic relationship for work.
What is sharecropping?
This act ended nation-to-nation relations between the US and Native tribes.
What is the Indian Termination Act?
This president dared Chief Justice John Marshall to enforce his decision when he ruled the Cherokee may keep their lands.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
This disputed territory was where Polk sent troops to pressure Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
Even when surrendering in North Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Lee asked for the Unions support handling and tending to these.
What are POWs/Prisoners of War?
These were set up all over the US to discourage African Americans from voting, but could be worked around with a "Grandfather Clause".
What are Poll Taxes?
The Indian Self Determination Act allowed tribes to manage these themselves.
What are social services?
This nickname for the Cherokee, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles was due to their quick assimilation.
What are the "5 civilized tribes"?
Although the first Fugitive Slave Act was passed in 1793, it's 1850 update denied slaves their right to this.
What is a jury/jury trial?
This famous African American served as a spy in the Civil War, as it was one of the few menial tasks that were available to their race.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This strict measure required of 50% of males in previously Confederate states to take this, according to the Wade-Davis Agreement.
What is an Ironclad Oath?