The Road to War & Conflict
This 1857 Supreme Court decision ruled that enslaved people were not citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in U.S. territories.
A) What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
B) What is the Dred Scott case?
C) What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
B) What is the Dred Scott case?
He was the 16th President of the United States who led the country through the Civil War.
A) What is Andrew Johnson?
B) What is Jefferson Davis?
C) What is Abraham Lincoln?
C) What is Abraham Lincoln?
These three Constitutional Amendments respectively abolished slavery, granted citizenship/equal protection, and guaranteed voting rights regardless of race.
A) What are the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd?
B) What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th?
C) What are the 18th, 19th, and 20th?
B) What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th?
This massive engineering project linked the Atlantic and Pacific coasts by rail in 1869.
A) What is the Erie Canal?
B) What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
C) What is the Santa Fe Trail?
B) What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
A system where farmers rented land and paid the landowner with a share of the crop; it often trapped families in a cycle of debt.
A) What is the Reservation system?
B) What is Sharecropping?
C) What is the Dawes Act?
B) What is Sharecropping?
This 1850 law required citizens to assist in the capture of runaway enslaved people and denied the accused a right to a jury trial.
A) What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
B) What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
C) What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
A) What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
People who campaigned to end slavery immediately in the United States.
A) Who are the Suffragists?
B) Who are the Abolitionists?
C) Who are the Radical Republicans?
B) Who are the Abolitionists?
This federal agency was established to provide food, clothing, hospitals, and schools for freed people and white refugees after the war.
A) What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
B) What is the Department of Labor?
C) What is the Red Cross?
A) What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This 1887 law broke up tribal lands into individual plots in an attempt to "assimilate" Native Americans into white culture.
A) What is the Dawes Act?
B) What is the Homestead Act?
C) What is the Indian Removal Act?
A) What is the Dawes Act?
A legal system where a debtor is forced to work for a creditor until a debt is paid off, frequently used to exploit Black labor after the Civil War.
A) What is Debt Peonage?
B) What is the Poll Tax?
C) What is the Labor Union?
A) What is Debt Peonage?
300: The site of the first shots of the U.S. Civil War in April 1861.
A) What is Gettysburg?
B) What is Appomattox Courthouse?
C) What is Fort Sumter?
C) What is Fort Sumter?
This executive order declared that all persons held as slaves within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
A) What is the 13th Amendment?
B) What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
C) What is the Gettysburg Address?
B) What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Terms used for Northerners who moved South for opportunity (often criticized) and Southerners who supported Reconstruction.
A) What are Sharecroppers and Peons?
B) What are Buffalo Soldiers and Cowboys?
C) What are Carpetbaggers and Scalawags?
C) What are Carpetbaggers and Scalawags?
African American soldiers who served primarily on the Western frontier following the Civil War.
A) Who are the Rough Riders?
B) Who are the Minute Men?
C) Who are the Buffalo Soldiers?
C) Who are the Buffalo Soldiers?
A fee required to be paid before a person could cast a ballot, used primarily to disenfranchise poor and minority voters.
A) What is a Property Requirement?
B) What is a Literacy Test?
C) What is a Poll Tax?
C) What is a Poll Tax?
400: This 1863 turning point in Pennsylvania was the bloodiest battle of the war and ended General Lee's second invasion of the North.
A) What is Antietam?
B) What is Gettysburg?
C) What is Bull Run?
B) What is Gettysburg?
This group of politicians wanted to harshly punish the South after the war and ensure full civil rights for formerly enslaved people.
A) Who are the Copperheads?
B) Who are the Radical Republicans?
C) Who are the Scalawags?
B) Who are the Radical Republicans?
These local and state laws enforced racial segregation in the South and led to the "Nadir" of American race relations.
A) What are Jim Crow laws?
B) What is the Dawes Act?
C) What are the Black Codes?
A) What are Jim Crow laws?
This 1890 event is often considered the end of the Indian Wars, where hundreds of Lakota were killed by the U.S. Army.
A) What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
B) What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
C) What is Wounded Knee?
C) What is Wounded Knee?
The controversial argument that individual states have the authority to void federal laws they deem unconstitutional.
A) What is Federalism?
B) What is States' Rights?
C) What is Judicial Review?
B) What is States' Rights?
The location where General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the Civil War.
A) What is the White House?
B) What is Appomattox Courthouse?
C) What is Vicksburg?
B) What is Appomattox Courthouse?
The movement focused on gaining the right to vote, primarily for women.
A) What is the Suffrage movement?
B) What is the Temperance movement?
C) What is the Abolitionist movement?
A) What is the Suffrage movement?
This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of "separate but equal" facilities.
A) What is Brown v. Board of Education?
B) What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
C) What is Marbury v. Madison?
B) What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
A community that experiences sudden and rapid population and economic growth, usually due to the discovery of gold or silver.
A) What is a Reservation?
B) What is a Boom town?
C) What is a Homestead?
B) What is a Boom town?
An 1864 attack where U.S. volunteer cavalry killed over 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho people, mostly women and children, in Colorado Territory.
A) What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
B) What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
C) What is the Trail of Tears?
B) What is the Sand Creek Massacre?