This is a change to the Constitution of the United States of America.
What is an amendment?
100
This is the name given to the time period of reorganization and rebuilding of the South following the Civil War.
What is reconstruction?
100
What were 3 reasons for increase in immigration in the United States?
What is the hope for a better opportunity?
What is escape from oppressive governments?
What is adventure?
What is religious freedom?
100
This Nez Perce chief and his tribe were forced to relocate. He said, "I will fight no more."
Who was Chief Joseph?
100
These laws were passed in the south to discriminate against the African Americans.
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
200
He urged southerners to reconcile with northerners at the end of the Civil War. He became the president of Washington College.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
200
This includes Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin,Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota
What is the Midwest Region?
200
These were 2 reasons why cities grew and developed.
1. What is specialized industries including steel (Pittsburgh) and meat packing Chicago)?
2. What is immigration to America from other countries?
3. What is movement of Americans from rural to urban areas for job opportunities?
200
These were 3 reasons why people moved to the west.
What are opportunities for land ownership?
What is the possibility of obtaining wealth created by discovery of gold and silver?
What is desire for adventure?
What is the desire for a new beginning for enslaved African Americans?
What is technological advances, including the Transcontinental Railroad?
200
These two African Americans responded to the Jim Crow Laws.
Who is Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois?
300
His reconstruction plan called for reconciliation. He also believed that the preservation of the Union was more important than punishing the South.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
300
The important cities in this region include San Antonio and Santa Fe.
What is the Southwest Region?
300
This one challenge faced by cities.
What is tenements and ghettos?
What is political corruption?
300
These are the physical features and climate of the Great Plains.
What are flatlands that rise gradually from the east to west?
What is land eroded by wind and water?
What is low rainfall?
What is frequent dust storms?
300
These two invention helped the rise of big business.
What is electric lighting and telephone service?
400
He fought for adoption of constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights. He was a powerful voice for human rights and civil liberties for all.
Who was Fredrick Douglass?
400
This region only includes two states which are not connected to the continental United States. Name the states and region
What is Alaska and Hawaii?
What is the Noncontiguous Region?
400
These two groups faced discrimination.
What are the Chinese and Irish?
400
These are three examples of inventions and adaptations which helped people on the Great Plains?
What are windmills?
What is barbed wire?
What are sod houses?
What are steel plows?
What is dry farming?
What is beef cattle raising?
What is wheat farming?
400
This is where the steel industry was located?
What is Pittsburgh, PA?
500
These three amendments guarantee equal protection under the law for all citizens. (Must state what each amendment does.)
What is
13th Amendment - bans slavery in the United States and all of its territories?
14th Amendment - grants citizenship to all persons born in the United States and guarantees them equal protection under the law?
15th Amendment - Ensures all citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude?
500
This region contains Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Montana, Wyoming and Idaho.
Name the region and the important cities in this region.
What is the Rocky Mountain Region?
What is Denver and Salt Lake City?
500
Her efforts to help solve immigrants problems in Chicago were admirable. (name person and what she did)
Who was Jane Addams and the Hull House. (Settlement House)
500
These are examples of the three manufacturing areas and the industries they are associated with.
What are:
New England-textile industry?
Detroit- automobile industry?
Pittsburgh-steel industry?
500
These were leaders in big business.
Who is Rockefeller, Carnegie, Ford and Vanderbilt?