Layin' Down the Law
Who's That?
Location, Location, Location
Reconstruction
Westward Expansion
100
This amendment abolished slavery forever in the United States.
What is the 13th amendment?
100
He was the 16th President of the United States who issued the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
The vast, flat, and grassy area of the central U.S. that was turned into farmland by thousands of sellers.
What are the Great Plains?
100
Southern states passed these restrictive laws to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure a stable labor force.
What are The Black Codes?
100
This Missouri city served as the starting point for the Oregon, California, and Santa Fe trails during westward expansion.
What is Independence, Missouri?
200
This 1862 law gave 160 acres of land to sellers who promised to live on it and farm it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
200
This far-right extremist group was formed by Confederate veterans to fight Reconstruction policies.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
200
A 2,000-mile long trail that many pioneers used to travel in covered wagons to reach the fertile land of the Northwest.
What is the Oregon Trail?
200
This government agency was created after the Civil War to help former slaves with food, medicine, and schools.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
200
Spanning about 900 miles, this westward expansion route would run from Independence, MO to New Mexico.
What is the Santa Fe Trail?
300
This amendment granted citizenship to everyone born in the U.S. and guaranteed “equal protection”
What is the 14th amendment?
300
He was the Vice President who became President after Lincoln was assassinated. He was later impeached by the House.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
300
This massive construction project built a train track that crossed the continent, linking the East and West coasts.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
300
This system of farming replaced slavery in the South, but often kept former slaves in a cycle of debt to landowners.
What is sharecropping?
300
This purchase from France for $15 million roughly doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
400
This amendment declared that the right to vote cannot be taken away because of race.
What is the 15th amendment?
400
A group of religious pioneers who moved from the midwest following religious persecution in the 1840s.
Who are the Mormons?
400
This city serves as the state capital of Missouri.
What is Jefferson City?
400
Founded in 1867 during Reconstruction, this Historically Black University in Washington, D.C. was named after the commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau.
What is Howard University?
400
This 19th-century belief stated that the United States was divinely ordained to expand its borders across the North American continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
500
This 1862 law authorized the building of the nation's first transcontinental railroad and telegraph line.
What is the Pacific Railway Act of 1862?
500
This nickname and later football team refers to the thousands of prospectors who rushed to California in 1849 to search for gold after its discovery at Sutter's Mill.
Who are the 49ers?
500
Spanning 2,315 miles and 2,340 miles respectively, these two rivers remain the two longest rivers to go through the state of Missouri.
What are the Missouri River and the Mississippi River?
500
This was the negative nickname given to Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction for economic or political gain.
What are Carpetbaggers?
500
On January 24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered gold at this mill in Coloma, California, sparking the famous Gold Rush.
What is Sutter's Mill?