Plans
The federal government struggled with how to return the 11 southern states to the Union
Reconstruction
Were white men who had been locked out of pre-Civil War politics by their wealthier neighbors
Scalawags
Politicians who aimed to repair the South
Redeemers
In 2016 a plane fueled by which kind of energy completed the 1st round-the-world trip of its kind?
Solar
Which 2016 Olympic gymnast became the 1st female gymnast in 42 years to win 4 straight national championships?
Simone Biles
What 3 significant issues did the federal government have to address during Reconstruction?
How to reunite the union
How to rebuild the Southern Economy
How to extend Citizenship to African Americans
How did politics in the South change during Reconstruction?
African Americans began to participate
Why did the presidential election of 1876 signal the end of Reconstruction?
Because the winner finally removed troops form the South
Which Las Vegas hotel built by Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky was the 1st entirely owned by an organized crime syndicate?
Flamingo
Which NFL football player in nicknamed "Beast Mode" and famously dislikes talking to the media?
Marshawn Lynch
How did Lincoln's and the Radical Republicans plans for Reconstruction differ?
Lincoln was nicer and the Radical Republicans were more harsh on the South
How did the Freedmen's Bureau and African American churches help African Americans build new lives in the South?
They helped them get an education
Why did Reconstruction policies split the women's suffrage movement?
Because women were hoping to get the right to vote as well as African Americans
Who renamed the presidential yacht "Honey Fitz," in honor of his grandfather, a former Boston mayor?
John F. Kennedy
Sriracha hot sauce features which animal in its logo, the Chinese zodiac sign of its creator David Tran?
Rooster
What did General Sherman think should be done with lands that had come under government control during the war?
40 acres and a mule
How did African American citizens take advantage of their newly granted political rights?
They began to participate
What were the Slaughterhouse Cases?
Cases about monopiles in the South
In 1974, President Ford appointed historian Daniel J. Boorstin to which government position?
Librarian of Congress
Which scientist wore her blue lab dress instead of a wedding gown when she married her husband Pierre in 1895?
Marie Curie
Members of Congress that insisted that the Confederates had committed crimes-by enslaving African Americans and by entangling the nation in war
Radical Republicans
Northerners who moved to the South to participate in politics
Carpetbaggers
Winner of the Election of 1876
Rutherford B. Hayes
Which President, the 1st to receive a Secret Service code name, was called "General," even though he was only a captain in WWI?
Harry Truman
Headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, which athletic company was once known as Blue Ribbon Sports?
Nike