This was the period of rebuilding after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction.
100
He was President of the political party which was founded to stop the spread of slavery to the West. ** (name the party for double points)
Who is Abraham Lincoln (Republican)
100
This was the 1000+ long journey where Ranchers drove their cattle to cow towns to be shipped and sold in the East.
What is the Long Drive.
100
This Act gave 160 free acres of land to homesteaders if they lived on a farm for 5 years and paid a small fee.
What is the Homestead Act.
100
This means to make free.
What is emancipate.
200
This was President Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction.
What is the 10 Percent Plan.
200
This is loyalty to one's region.
What is Sectionalism.
200
These were homes made by Farmers out of dirt on the Plains.
What are Soddies.
200
This amendment prohibited slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment.
200
What is a Yankee?
What is a soldier from the North during the Civil War.
300
What was President Johnson's Plan for Reconstruction called.
What is Restoration.
300
This was a conflict between pro- and anti-slavery groups who both tried to take control of this new region in the great Plains.
What is Bleeding Kansas.
300
This group united and supported farmers on their Homesteads.
What was the Grange (or Farmers Alliances)
300
This law made all US born individuals full citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment.
300
This type of town developed after the Mining Boom ended.
What are Ghost Towns.
400
Define impeachment.
What is to charge with wrongdoing/formally remove from office.
400
Identify the North's Strategies during the Civil War.
What were Blockade the South, Control the Mississippi River and capture Richmond.
400
This group fought for the common good of the people
What is the Populist Party.
400
This act forced Native Americans to assimilate to American culture.
What is the Dawes Act.
400
This group terrorized African Americans in the South
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
500
Describe some things that made the South a 'divided society' during Reconstruction.
Black Codes, the KKK, voting laws (poll tax, literacy test), sharecropping, etc.
500
Identify the 6 main principles of Just War Theory.
What are Right Intention, Just Cause, Legitimate Authority, Equal Chance of Success, Last Resort and Ends Acheived are Proportional to the Means Used.
500
Identify the effects the Transcontinental Railroad had on American Growth.
What are time zones, the growth of cities, growth of industry (steel and lumber), connecting the East and West Coasts, influx of population to the West.
500
Define the 15th Amendment.
What is it 'prohibited states from denying the right to vote to male citizens.'
500
Describe how Native Americans were treated during American Growth.
What is their buffalo (and way of life) was wiped out. They were forced to live on reservations and attacked or killed by the US government. They later were forced to assimilate to American culture under the Dawes Act.