Symbolism
Creatures: Who Am I?
Folktales
Rasputin
Potpourri
100
Areas of land specifically set aside by the Federal Government for Native Americans.
What are reservations?
100
When I heard Custer and his men start to fire and attack our camp, I didn't lose my head. I went into my tepee, invited those willing to join me, and had a smoke until we figured out a strategy.
Who is Sitting Bull?
100
The traditional garb/clothing of the Klan.
What are white hoods, robes,etc.
100
This Amendment guarantees that "All persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens".
What is the 14th Amendment?
100
Lincoln's plan to offer a pardon to Confederate states if this percentage of the voters of each state swore to support the Constitution and Union of The United States, while also abolishing slavery.
What is the 10% Plan?
200
A self-appointed enforcer of the law or justice.
What is a vigilante?
200
I led the Nez Perce Indians of Oregon and Idaho against United States troops until we were forced to surrender at the Canadian border. I declared, "I am tired of fighting....our chiefs are killed, the little children are starving to death.....I am tired and my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."
Who is Chief Joseph?
200
The Klan would often burn these on the lawns of freedmen's lawns to intimidate them.
What are crosses?
200
This Amendment provided that a person or who held a federal or state government position before the Civil War and who gave aid and comfort to the Confederate cause could not hold office without first being pardoned by Congress.
What is the 14th Amendment?
200
This Act required that the President would need Senate approval to dismiss an office holder that he had appointed with the advice and consent of the Senate.
What is the Tenure of Office Act?
300
Started in 1860, it worked in relays to deliver the mail across an east-west route 2,000 miles long. However, at $5 a letter it wasn't profitable, and was replaced by the telegraph.
What is the Pony Express?
300
I was the Secretary of War under Lincoln's administration, and acting President for a brief time as the plot to kill the country's top officials unfolded. I also uttered the words "Now he belongs to the ages" when Lincoln died.
Who is Edwin Stanton?
300
These two acts outlawed the use of force to prevent people from voting and authorized President Grant to use federal troops to enforce the laws.
What are the Force Act and the Ku Klux Klan Act?
300
This amendment stated that "no citizen could be denied the right to vote on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
What is the 15th Amendment?
300
Name two ways that Rutherford B. Hayes gained support for his election as President by conservative Southerners even though it was a close election and he hadn't won the popular vote.
1) He promised federal aid to construct new railroads in the South. 2) He promised to control floods along the Mississippi River. 3) He promised to remove Federal Troops still in the South and to end Reconstruction.
400
These involved moving large herds of cattle across hundreds or thousands of miles to a railhead, from which the cattle would be shipped to market.
What are long drives?
400
My death, along with the loss of some Radical seats in government, helped trigger the decline in Reconstruction.
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?
400
Name two ways the Klan might intimidate blacks or voters.
What are armed picketers, lynchings, verbal threats, etc?
400
The 14th Amendment was passed because the Republicans in Congress feared that the Supreme Court might declare the __________ Act unconstitutional.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
400
Disillusioned with the corruption and "friend appointments" linked to Grant's presidency, this political party formed and ran their own candidate against Grant but lost.
What were the Liberal Republicans?
500
Settlers who arrived before the Federal Government's deadline to claim free homesteads.
What are Sooners?
500
I won the Presidency in 1876 despite the fact that my opponent received 250,000 more popular votes than me. However, blacks who may have been kept from the polls could have given me a undisputed victory.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
500
Name two other white supremacist groups that intimidate black voters
Who are the White Camellia and the Society of the White Rose?
500
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton campaigned against this amendment.
What is the 15th Amendment?
500
Name one problem faced by the North and one problem faced by the South after the Civil War.
For the North: Widespread unemployment in the North due to factories shutting down. For the South: factories, railroads and farmlands were devastated, cities burned out, banks closed, businesses disrupted, economy messed up by worthless Confederate currency.
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