The Civil War-
Chapter 17
The Reconstruction Era- Chapter 18
Opening the West-
Chapter 19
The Industrial Age- Chapter 20
Vocabulary
(All Chapters)
100
This is the location General Grant surrendered.
What is Appomattox Court House?
100
This is the amendment that protected African American citizenship.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
100
This is deserted town with few or no remaining inhabitants. After people left boom towns because there was no more silver left they created this.
What is ghost towns?
100
These were groups formed by dissatisfied workers that demanded better pay and working conditions.
What is labor unions?
100
This is the system of selecting people for required military service.
What is Draft?
200
This was the first major battle of the Civil War.
What is The First Battle of Bull Run?
200
This is the amendment that protected the citizens right to vote.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
200
This was the name for people who tried to steal cattle. They made cattle drives dangerous.
Who are Rustlers?
200
This encouraged people to use trains for longer trips as these made rides more comfortable and luxurious.
What is Pullman sleeping car?
200
Total control of a type of industry by one person or one company is known as this.
What is a Monopoly?
300
The most important border state was Maryland for this reason.
What was that Maryland was close to the Confederate capital Richmond?
300
Many _________, planters and other white Southerners supported the KKK.
Who are Democrats?
300
This is a town undergoing rapid growth due to sudden prosperity. Boomtowns grew up very fast in places near where gold and silver were found.
What is a Boomtown?
300
These allowed railroads to ship meat and crops, making trade all around the country strong and more efficient.
What is Refrigerated railroad cars?
300
This is a large area of grazing land without fences or barriers.
What is Open Range?
400
This was one of the three parts of the Anaconda Plan.
1- What was close Sothern Ports? 2- What was to take control of the Mississippi River (split Confederacy in half, and cut supply lines) 3- Capture Richmond
400
This was a requirement that voters must be able to read and write at a certain level.
What are literacy tests?
400
Two companies built the transcontinental railroad. The Central Pacific Company worked eastward from California. This Company worked westward from Nebraska.
What is the Union Pacific Company?
400
Car couplers made it easier to do this.
What is make it easier for railroad workers to link cars?
400
These are people who invest in companies by buying stock.
Who are Shareholders?
500
The Battle of Gettysburg was this because it ended the Confederates' hope of gaining help from Britain and France. This battle convinced the North that they could win the war.
What was the turning point of the war for the North?
500
This is a fee people had to pay to vote.
What is poll tax?
500
The two sets of tracks, for the transcontinental railroad, met at this location.
What is at Promontory Summit in Utah Territory?
500
A fire occurred at this company, a NY sweatshop located on the top three floors of a 10 story building. Workers, mostly young immigrant women, were trapped as it was reported that the doors leading out were locked. Because of this accident, 150 workers died after most jumped out the windows. This disaster lead the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union to push for a safer working environment. This event caused the labor union to make workplaces safer for workers.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Company?
500
These are laws passed in the South just after the Civil War aimed at controlling freed men and women, and allowed plantation owners to take advantage of African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
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