America The Story of Us
The continental US comes up with this concept to help keep trains on time.
What is time zones?
belief that U.S. settlers in the 1800s were destined to settle across North America
What is Manifest Destiny?
vast areas of grassland owned by the federal government
What is the Open Range?
Theatre where Lincoln was assassinated
Where is Fords Theatre?
A person who moves from place to place
What is a Nomad?
To conquer the wilderness and unite the East and West, President Lincoln greenlights a?
What is a Transcontinental Railroad?
act passed as a part of the Compromise of 1850
What is The Fugitive Slave Act?
piece of U.S. public land acquired by filing a record and living on and cultivating it
What is the Homestead Act?
Stabbed while lying in bed from a carriage accident
Who was William Seward?
a white Southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction
Who is a Scalawag?
The Cowboys gun of choice
What is a Colt 45?
Won the election of 1844
Who was James K. Polk?
the buffalo population before we discovered the Great Plains
What is 31 million?
First women to be hanged in the United States
Who was Mary Suratt?
a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have no local connections.
Who is a Carpetbagger?
These two companies began work on the railroad
Who was the Union Pacific and Central Pacific?
law that divided the land west of Missouri into Kansas and Nebraska, and allowed the residents of those territories to decide whether to allow slavery
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
He was the chief of the Lakota Sioux nation.
Who was Sitting Bull?
Name of the pistol used to assassinate Lincoln
What is a derringer?
a political theory that states that the people are the source of all political power and legitimacy, and that the government is created and sustained by the consent of the people
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Created the mail order catelog
Who was Richard Sears?
seized an arsenal in Harpers Ferry, VA, in an attempt to begin a rebellion against slaveholders
Who is John Brown?
patented the mechanical reaper
Who was Cyrus McCormick?
What is April 15, 1865 at 7:22am?
a plot of land rented by an individual for growing vegetables or flowers.
What is allotment?