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Expansion to The West
Society in 1844-1877
Slavery As An Issue
The Civil War
Reconstruction Era
100
What caused Irish immigrants to come to America?
What is the Potato Famine?
100
What book was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe?
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
100
What order did Lincoln give to release all slaves in 1862?
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
What did the 13th Amendment do?


It legally ended slavery.

100
What was sharecropping/black codes?
Landowners employed mostly black families in the South to be allowed to rent land as long as they would farm it. It also notably looked a lot like slavery since the landlords were allowed to charge whatever they wanted and so they deliberately charged more than they knew their tenants could make, and thanks to the black codes, they couldn't opt out of their contracts until the debts were paid off, which in many cases never happened. 
200
What act did the government pass as an advertisement to get settlers out west?
What is the Homestead Act?
200
 When immigration and heavy drinking with the Germans and Irish, what movement rose out of the US?
What is Nativism?
200
What were the name of shows that whites performed while having a black face?
What is a Minstral shows?
200
How did the Ninety-Day War end?
With the Battle of the Bull Run, in which the Union captured the Confederate capital of Richmond. 


200
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
It was a program created by Congress to help newly freed slaves find housing, food, and jobs so that they could land on their feet. 


300
What treaty was signed after the war with Mexico that gave the US more territory?
what is the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
300
What is the name of people who are anti-slavery?
What is a Abolitionist? 
300
What act was passed for Kansas and Nebraska?
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
300
What were some of the Union's strategies for weakening the Confederacy?
Capture its capital (Richmond), free its slaves, blockade its coasts, cut off its supply lines, etc. 
300
What was the "10 Percent" Reconstruction plan?
It meant that a state could be readmitted into the Union if 10% of its voters would take a pledge of allegiance to the US. 
400
What purchase gave the United States more territory after the war with Mexico?
What is the Gadsen Purchase?
400
After the Civil War, what did African Americans continued to do to make a living
What is Sharecropping?
400
What determined slaver in Kansas and Nebraska?
What is Popular Sovereignty?
400
What was important about the Battle of Antietam?
Although the Union did not win, it did stop the Confederate march northward and give Lincoln the military backing to release the Emancipation Proclamation. 
400
What were the 14th and 15th Amendments?
the 14th gave black people civil rights, including citizenship, and the 15th gave black men the right to vote.


500
What act was passed in 1862 to get companies to build transcontinental railroads?
What is the Pacific Railroad Act?
500
Who are the two groups that formed over the idea of Reconstruction.
What are Scalawags and Carpetbaggers?
500
What was the party that advocated for African Americans to move back to Africa?
What is the American Colonization Society?
500
What were some of the political parties that emerged during the Civil War?
War/Peace Democrats, Copperheads (radical peace Democrats)
500
What was the "Invisible Empire of the South"?
The KKK/Ku Klux Klan, which set out to murder black people in order to intimidate anyone who tried to get treated like a human!!