The original European settlements along the East Coast.
What are the Thirteen Colonies?
100
The election of Abraham Lincoln
What led the Southern States to secede from the Union?
100
Made cheap land available for settlers
What is The Homestead Act?
100
A person who continually moves from place to place, usually in search of food.
What is a nomad?
100
The mode of transportation provided many jobs for immigrants, connected the east and the west and was completed in 1869.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
200
Great Britain
Who did America fight against for its independence?
200
A decree freeing all enslaved persons in states still in rebellion after January 1, 1863.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
This stripped the land of dirt, gravel and rock while exposing minerals; this led to flooding that wrecked fences, destroyed orchards and left rocks and gravel on good farm soil
What is hydraulic mining?
200
This act allotted 160 acres of reservation land for farming to each head of household
What is the Dawes Act?
200
American businesses and factories grew rapidly after the Civil War and changed the way that people lived and worked.
What is Industrialization?
300
Wars over land, broken treaties, disease and reservations
What happened to the Native Americans as European settlers moved in?
300
The Civil War started over states' rights and shifted to a fight over slavery. President Lincoln gave this speech which again shifted the fighting to be about freedom.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
300
This discovery attracted thousands of settlers who established new states on the frontier.
What is gold?
300
Settlers believed the solution to Native American conflict was to teach them how to be more like the Americans.
What is assimilation?
300
This man invented the telephone in 1876.
Who was Alexander Graham Bell?
400
Was written in 1787, is considered the law of the land and sets up the government of the United States.
What is the Constitution?
400
Rebuilding the South and securing the rights of African Americans.
What is Reconstruction?
400
Tiny frontier settlements went up almost overnight during this time of rapid economic growth. These settlements were called _________________.
What is a Boomtown?
400
A French phrase meaning "leave businesses alone"
What is Laissez-Faire?
500
Added to the Constitution to offer protections to the citizens of the United States.
What is the Bill of Rights?
500
13th Amendment abolishing slavery
14th Amendment granting citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S.
15th Amendment giving all men the right to vote regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude
What amendments came out of the Civil War?
500
Settlers moved to this area even though life was difficult. They discovered they could grow wheat and new technologies made farming easier.
What are the Great Plains?
500
A vast area of grassland that the federal government owned, which provided an open range for grazing herds.
What are the Great Plains?
500
People who risk their capital to organize and run businesses.