Geography
When looking at a compass, this direction is to the left.
What is west?
The Louisiana Territory was purchased from this country.
What is France?
This document freed all slaves in rebellious states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This person assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?
This is a person who left their homeland and moved to another country.
What is an immigrant?
These lines run east and west around the world, resembling a ladder.
What is latitude?
This was somebody who worked to free the slaves.
What is an abolitionist?
This means to formally separate from a country.
What is secede?
This made slavery illegal in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Most immigrants came to work in these types of places.
What are factories?
This theme of geography focuses on where something can be found using coordinates or address.
What is location?
This was the idea that it was the Americans' duty to expand the nation westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This was the main commander of the Confederacy.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
These laws limited the rights of African-Americans in most cities and towns in the South.
What are the black codes?
This is a reason someone would leave their home country.
What is a push factor?
This part of geography focuses on the type of weather a place has.
What is climate?
This was a book by Harriet Beecher Stowe, showing the true brutality of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This was the main commander of the Union army, to whom Robert E. Lee surrendered.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant.
This man took his case to the Supreme Court because he was not allowed on a train car for whites.
Who is Homer Plessy?
Most immigrants in the late 1800s and early 1900s came from this continent.
What is Europe?
This theme of geography describes how humans change or adapt to the environment.
What is human-environment interaction?
This was the nickname given to the stretch of the country between Texas and South Carolina because there was so much cotton grown.
What is the Cotton Belt?
This man was a slave who believed he should be freed because his master took him to a free state.
Who is Dred Scott?
This group was created by the government to help poor people in the South after the Civil War.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
President John F. Kennedy came from a family that immigrated from this country.
What is Ireland?