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This guy was the first president of Texas.
The winner of the Battle of San Jacinto
This 1862 law promoted settlement of the Great Plains by offering parcels of 160 acres of public land free to any person or family that farmed that land for at least five years.
What was The Homestead Act?
What are carpetbaggers?
It has been estimated that this disease, caused by a vitamin deficiency, killed at least two million sailors between 1500 and 1800.
What is scurvy?
In 1859, this abolitionist killed people in a bid to start a slave revolt.
The winner of the Battle of Gettysburg
The Union
This law's chief purpose was to track down runaway slaves who had escaped to a Northern state, capture them, and return them to their Southern owners.
What was the Fugitive Slave Law?
Southerners who supported Reconstruction were known by this pejorative term.
What is scalawags?
This disease caused hysteria and a decline in beef consumption in the 1990s.
What is mad cow disease?
In 1858, the focus of the nation was on this guy's campaign for reelection as senator from Illinois.
Who was Stephen Douglas?
The winner of the Battle of Vicksburg
The Union
This 1862 law encouraged states to use the sale of federal land grants to maintain agricultural and technical colleges.
What is the Morrill Land Grant Act?
Southern White people committed to rolling back the gains of Reconstruction were known by this term.
What is redeemers?
This disease is estimated to have killed between 30 million and 50 million people worldwide in 1918 and 1919.
What is the flu?
In the spring of 1863, this guy began a campaign to win control of the final piece of the Mississippi River still controlled by the Confederacy.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
The losing country that signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The laws passed by Southern state legislatures that restricted the rights and movements of the former slaves were known as this.
What are the Black Codes?
This black educator urged black Americans to work hard and get along with others in their White communities, so as to earn the goodwill of the country.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This respiratory disease was known as "consumption."
What is tuberculosis?
In 1864, when Lincoln was running for reelection, the Democrats nominated this guy, a celebrated former Union general who had been relieved of his command by Lincoln.
Who was George McClellan?
The winner of the First Battle of Bull Run
The Confederacy
In 1864, Congress passed this law, requiring 50% of the voters of a state to take a loyalty oath and permitted only non-Confederates to vote for a new state constitution. It was vetoed by Lincoln.
What was the Wade Davis bill?
This disease generated widespread panic in 2003 and was caused by a previously unknown coronavirus (SARS-CoV-1) - the same family of viruses that causes Covid-19.
What is SARS?