Before war
Who was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
What was the name of the Union's plan to win the war?
The Anaconda Plan
Which group tormented Republicans and African Americans after the Civil War?
KKK
What two animals were important to the Plains Indians?
buffalo and horses
What branch of the government writes the nation's laws?
legislative branch.
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What did Lincoln issue to "free" the slaves in the Confederacy?
The Emancipation Procolamation
What were the southern laws called that limited the Civil Rights of African Americans after the Civil War?
Black Codes
Who made an engraving about the Boston Massacre that became widely seen around the colonies?
Paul Revere
Which region of America built lots of railroads?
the North
Which side in the Civil War had larger armies in most battles?
The North / Union
What government agency was set up to help African Americans after the Civil War?
the Freedmans Bureau
Which government Act gave 160 acres of free land to settlers who moved out to the great plains?
Homestead Act
Buying an expensive car that you cannot really afford is known as this type of debt?
bad debt
What do we call loyalty to a particular region over the interests of your country?
Sectionalism
What Union victory is considered the turning point in the war?
Gettysburg
What do we call the era in the South after Reconstruction ended?
the Jim Crow Era
What do well call the practice of farming that many freedmen took up after the Civil War that kept the so poor?
Sharecropping
How long did it take for Lewis and Clark to get to the Pacific Ocean?
year and a half
What did Lincoln say could not stand half divided?
this house / the United States
What victory gave control of the Mississippi River to the Union?
Vicksburg
What job did John Wilkes Booth have?
an actor
What do well call the practice of requiring an African American to pay for the right to vote?
a poll tax
Which colonial protest group led the protest at the Boston Tea Party?
the Sons of Liberty