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Reconstruction
100
This was the name given to the forced march of the Cherokee Indians to move west of the Mississippi in the 1830s, illustrated in the map below.
What was the Trail of Tears?
100
John Brown, Sojourner Truth, and Charles Finney are all examples of activists and supporters of this particular 18th-century reform movement.
What is abolition?
100
This 1863 battle in Pennsylvania, the bloodiest of the Civil War, was a decisive victory for the Union.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
100
This man won the 1860 United States presidential election.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
100
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded in 1630 by this sect of English Protestants who wanted to "purify" the Anglican Church through strict religious discipline and simplification of worship.
Who were the Puritans?
100
This nickname was given to the post-Reconstruction South in which segregation was rigidly practiced and African American voting rights were restricted by such means as poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses.
What is the "Jim Crow" South?
200
Under the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819, this European nation ceded Florida to the U.S.
What is Spain?
200
This 1863 executive order by Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in Confederate regions in rebellion against the United States as of January 1, 1863.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
This last major battle of the American Revolutionary War resulted in the surrender of General Cornwallis and nearly 8,000 British soldiers under his command.
What was the Battle of Yorktown?
200
President Lincoln was assassinated by this actor and Confederate sympathizer.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
200
This was the name given to the northernmost region of Britain's American colonies, shown in purple on this map.
What were the New England colonies?
200
The Reconstruction Era saw the emergence of this white supremacy organization that promotes hatred and discrimination against specific ethnic and religious groups.
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
300
This term was used to describe a state that allowed slavery but remained in the Union during the American Civil War.
What is a border state?
300
The escaped slave shown below became one of the greatest leaders of the Abolition Movement.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
300
In 1861, this creek in northern Virginia was the site of the first major battle of the American Civil War.
What is Bull Run?
300
This Union general parlayed his war hero status into election as the eighteenth president of the United States.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
300
This crop was the primary source of income for the Southern Colonies during the American Colonial Era.
What is tobacco?
300
The map below illustrates this approach to governing the South during Reconstruction, which used soldiers as the primary peacekeeping and rebuilding force.
What are military districts?
400
From the 16th to 19th centuries, Europe, the Americas, and Africa were involved in this three-way system of commerce, depicted in the map below.
What was triangular trade?
400
Harriet Tubman was the most famous "conductor" on this system of secret routes that was used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada.
What was the Underground Railroad?
400
This 1865 battle in Virginia was the last major engagement of the American Civil War.
What was the battle of Appomattox Court House?
400
The election of this third president of the United States was particularly significant because it demonstrated the ability of the government to peacefully transition from control by one political party to another.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
400
This ship was used by the Pilgrims to travel from England to North America.
What was the Mayflower?
400
These laws were enacted by Congress during Reconstruction to prevent Southern abuses of civil rights.
What were the Enforcement Acts?
500
The map below portrays this 1820 attempt to limit the spread of slavery in the U.S. by prohibiting slavery in areas north of the 36°30′ parallel.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
500
This man was an editor and radical white abolitionist who started his own paper called The Liberator.
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
500
General Grant's capture of this Confederate fortress in 1863 effectively cut the Confederacy in half at the Mississippi River.
What is Vicksburg?
500
The vice president under Abraham Lincoln, this man became president after Lincoln's assassination and was ultimately impeached by the House of Representatives.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
500
An individual who agreed to work without wages for a period of time in exchange for transportation to the American colonies was given this name.
What was an indentured servant?
500
This agreement allowed the Republican Rutherford B. Hayes to become president in exchange for ending Reconstruction.
What was the Compromise of 1877?