Congress set up the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. This organization helped former slaves by building schools to help them learn to read.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
100
After 1858 Colorado's Pikes Peak was a site for this buisness activity.
What is Mining?
100
An economic system in which people are able to start and run businesses with little control by the government.
What is Free Enterprise.
100
A public announcement that tells people about a product or an opportunity.
What is an Advertisement?
200
President Andrew Johnson was __________ of a crime by the senate. This word means to have a verdict of not guilty.
What is Aquitted?
200
People from the North who moved South to take part in Reconstruction governments. Sometimes these people would carry their belongings in a bag made of carpet.
What is Carpetbaggers?
200
This area used steel plows because the tough sod was to hard to turn over.
What are the Great Plains?
200
This invention is what Thomas Edison is most famous for.
What is the Light Bulb?
200
During this time period many African Americans moved to the North.
What is The Great Migration?
300
The tragic event occurred after the end of the Civil War. This event cut the plans for Reconstruction short.
What is Lincoln's Assassination?
300
Daily Double... A day to celebrate freedom. This celebration originated in Texas.
What is Juneteenth?
300
These cities grew at the end of the cattle trail. (Name at least 1)
What are Cheyenne, Wyoming; Ogallala, Nebraska; and Abilene, Kansas?
300
This railroad stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
300
This act excluded all new Chinese workers and prevented any Chinese worker from coming to the U.S. for 10 years.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
400
These "Codes" were designed to limit the rights of former slaves.
What are Black Codes?
400
A person who is given a cabin, mules, tools, and seed by a landowner to work the land; this person is also paid in crops, not in cash.
What is a Sharecropper?
400
General George Custer was encountered by this group of people at the Little Bighorn River.
What is the Sioux?
400
This person became one of the wealthiest people in the world by finding a new process for making steel.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
400
As feelings against the Chinese grew stronger these controls were set up to make life harder for the Chinese.
What are Regulations?
500
A document in the Constitution that freed ALL slaves in the United States and its territories.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
500
An organization that used violance to keep African Americans from voting or to make sure they voted as they were told.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
500
John Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company once controlled most of the oil refining in the U.S. This process is not important for the production of oil.
What is the Bessemer Process?
500
This man helped railroads by inventing air breaks.
Who is George Westinghouse?
500
An unfair feeling of hate or dislike for members of a group because of their background, race, and/or religion.