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100
This country ruled the original 13 colonies.
What is Britain?
100
This was someone who rushed to California during the California Gold Rush.
What is a forty-niner?
100
This was the term used to describe the horrible journey that African slaves were forced to make across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Middle Passage?
100
This was the government's plan to rebuild the country after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
100
This is when people are separated based on race or culture.
What is segregation?
200
Lord Dunmore's Proclamation promised freedom to slaves who ran away from their owners and joined this.
What is the British army?
200
This is the belief that the United States should expand from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
This was a system of escape routes that led slaves north to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
200
This was the most important aspect of President Lincoln and President Johnson's plan for Reconstruction.
What is peacefully bringing the country back together?
200
The purpose of a poll tax is to prevent this group from voting.
Who is African Americans?
300
This Patriot leader wrote the Declaration of Independence and eventually became the 3rd president of the United States.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
300
This is the forced migration of Native Americans east of the Mississippi to west of the Mississippi River after the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
What is the Trail of Tears?
300
This ended slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
300
This group of individuals did not agree with President Lincoln and Johnson's plan for Reconstruction.
What is the Radical Republicans?
300
The Supreme Court Case Plessy v. Ferguson decided that this was constitutional.
What is Separate but Equal/Segregation?
400
The first ten amendments of the Constitution are known as this.
What is the Bill of Rights?
400
This is a crop that is made to sell.
What is cash crop?
400
This president wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
400
This government agency was created to help former slaves by going them aid, building schools, finding them jobs, and finding family.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
400
Martin Luther King Jr. studied and believed in the practice of this.
What is non-violence?
500
This was the United States' first constitution.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
500
This is the reason that northern industries needed the South.
What is they needed Southern cash crops to make into products?
500
This is the relationship between the cotton gin and slavery in the South.
What is the cotton gin increased slavery in the South.
500
This is the system where plantation owners split up their land and let poor people and former slaves work on it in exchange for part of the profits.
What is sharecropping?
500
This is where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
What is at the Lincoln Memorial?