Units 9-10
The best know incident of Indian removal
What is the Cherokee Trail of Tears?
Henry Clay was well-known politically for crafting these
What are compromises?
The capitals of the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War
What are Washington and Richmond?
The two companies who built the transcontinental railroad
What are The Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroad companies?
Three people pioneered in catalog sales. Name one of them
Who are Ward, Sears, and Roebuck?
The idea that is was clear that America's God-given destiny was to own and govern the land fron the east coast to the west coast
What is Manifest Destiny?
The state John C. Calhoun represented in Congress
What is South Carolina?
The Union general who took Atlanta and led the March Across Georgia
Who is General Sherman?
What happened to President Garfield in July of 1881
The political party that controlled the South after Reconstruction
What is the Democratic Party?
The trail settlers traveled from Independence, MO to the American northwest
What is the Oregon Trail?
The place where John Brown led a raid in October of 1859
What is Harper's Ferry, VA
This Constitutional amendment guaranteed the legal and voting rights of blacks
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
The term for using both silver and gold as the standard for money
What is bimetallism?
The phrase used to justify segregation
What is separate but equal?
The name for a rebellion of slaves in Virginia in which slaves killed many whites
What is Nat Turner's rebellion?
This man won the 1860 presidential election
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The term for Northerners who came south for personal or political advantage or to try to help Southerners after the Civil War
Who are carpetbaggers?
This man gained tremendous wealth from shipping and railroads
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt
This man furthered the Progressive cause the most on the national level
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Name one invention that helped farming
What are the steel-tipped plow, the reaper, or the cotton gin?
This state was the first to secede from the Union before the Civil War
What is South Carolina?
The term for paper money issued by the government
What are greenbacks?
This man gained tremendous wealth from oil
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
The term used for the filing of suits to break up trusts
What is trust-busting?