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These iron horses revolutionized transportation of goods across the continent.
What is railroad train
100
This president served during the Civil War and was assasinated the same year it ended
Who was Abraham Lincoln
100
This word, which means rebuilding, is what we call the years immediately following the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction
100
A time when the nation's economy goes into drastic decline and there is much unemployment, low prices and not much business activity.
What is an economic depression
100
What many people called the purchase of the land we now call Alaska
What is Seward's folly
200
This bureau was established after the Civil War to help open schools for former slaves
What is The Freedmen's Bureau
200
This man shot Abraham Lincoln at the Ford Theatre then jumped out a window
Who is John Wilkes Booth
200
Due to immigration, some of the territories became as polyglot as New York City. Define polyglot.
What is (literally) many tongued or many languages
200
Laws in the South, 1865-1866) that discriminated against blacks. These laws gave whites almost unlimited power.
What were the "black codes"
200
People from these two countries made up the largest groups of 19th-century immigrants.
What are Germany and Ireland
300
Vehicles, often double-deckers, present in the 19th century which followed tracks built on city streets
What are streetcars
300
This president had shown courage when he turned his back on sectionalism and chose loyalty to the Union instead. But his stubborn, uncompromising nature proved his undoing as President during the Reconstruction.
Who was Andrew Johnson
300
This constitutional amendment, ratified on December 6, 1865, made slavery illegal
What is the 13th Amendment
300
The process that allows us to bring to trial federal officials (including a president) accused of Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors
What is impeachment
300
If someone is Anti-Semetic what race/religion of people are they prejudiced against?
What is Jew/Jewish/Semetic
400
Another word for the right to vote
What is suffrage
400
He was the president when at least 150 Sioux warriours, women and children were massacred at Wounded Knee. This was the last major armed encounter between Indians and whites in North America
Who was Benjamin Harrison (23rd president, Republican, 1889-1893)
400
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness are considered our rights -- what kind of rights?
What is inalienable (modern use) or unalienable (Thomas Jefferson)
400
When landowners have to pay money to the government based on the value of their land or property this payment is called...
What are taxes
400
The Central Pacific Railroad sent ships across the seas to bring back 7000 workers to California just to build a railroad. They paid them $1 a day. What country were the workers from?
What is China
500
This word means to leave your home country
What is emigrate
500
In 1877, a political deal led this president to call an end to Reconstruction. By the end of the decade, black Southerners found themselves under the lash of a new master -- a fool named Jim Crow
Who was Rutherford Hayes
500
If someone is prejudiced against Jews then they will usually be considered this...
What is anti-Semetic
500
A political party in the 1800s named the American Party was anti-Catholic and anti-foreign. Many people called the Party by another name. What is that name?
What was the Know-Nothing Party
500
At this 1876 battle General George Armstrong Custer's troops were destroyed by Sioux warriors led by Sitting Bull.
What is Little Bighorn