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Immigration and Citizenship
Addressing the "Indian" Problem
Manifest Destiny
Civil War and Reconstruction
Texas and Mexico
100

Which Act was the first piece of immigration legislation to target a specific ethnic group?

Chinese Exclusion Act


100
Which chief had a powerful speech attributed to him during the signing of the 1855 Treaty of Point Elliot? Historians, however, question the speeches authencity.

Chief Seattle/Se'alth

100

Which war of U.S. aggression lasted just under two years and led to massive land cession in the United States favor?

Mexican-American War

100

Which battle in April of 1861 kicked off the Civil War?

Attack on Fort Sumter

100

Who are Tejanos?

Spanish people living in Texas.

200

In 1896, the ruling of "separate but equal" in Plessy v. Ferguson laid the foundation for what?

Jim Crow Segregation

200
Which 1862 uprising on the Great Plains led to the largest mass hanging in U.S. history?

Dakota Uprising

200

Which term describes mid-nineteenth century unsanctioned excursions by White Americans into Latin America in attempt to overthrow governments?

Filibustering

200

What was the actual goal of Lincoln's "Emancipation Proclamation?"

To force the south back into the Union.
200

Which President of Mexico led Mexican troops into Texas to confront Texans at the Alamo? 

Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna

300
In the late 1840s/1850s, this event led to mass immigration of Irish peoples into the United States?

The Great Potato Famine/Blight

300

Which revitalization movement led to the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890?

Ghost Dance

300

Which event that began in the 1840s/50s encouraged mass migration from east to west in search of riches? 

Hint: It heavily exploited Chinese labor and the treatment of Native peoples in that area during this time has recently been deemed a genocide.

California Gold Rush

300

How many votes shy was the senate to fully impeach Andrew Johnson?

One vote
300

Who was named the first President of the Lone Star State?

Sam Houston

400
Which two Pacific Northwest towns held driving out campaigns that targeted Chinese laborers in 1885/1886?

Seattle and Tacoma

400

Richard H. Pratt, the founder of Carlisle Boarding School in 1879, is famous for what quote?

"Kill the Indian in him, and save the man."

400
Which self-declared doctor, lawyer, writer, and politician made his way into Nicaragua and declared himself president in 1856?

William Walker

400

Which Civil War amendment passed by Radical Republicans between 1865-70 deals with birthright citizenship and equal protections under the law?

14th Amendment

400

What action did Santa Anna threaten would constitute a declaration of war if the United States followed through?

Annexation of Texas

500

Which 1855 event saw the "Know-Nothing" party assault Irish and German communities on an Election Day in Louisville, Kentucky?

Bloody Monday

500
Which 1887 Act was modified by the Curtis Act in 1898 and then again by the Burke Act in 1906?

Dawes Allotment Act

500

Which South American revolutionary got ensnared in plan by White Southern aristocrats to take over Cuba in order to restart the Transatlantic Slave Trade? His second excursion into Cuba in 1851 cost him his life.

General Narciso Lopez

500

As part of the Compromise of 1877 which ended the period of Reconstruction, what did Rutherford B. Hayes need to do in order for Republicans to accept him as president?

There are two things; you need only name one.

Remove troops from Louisiana and appoint a Southern aristocrat to his cabinet.

500

What was the name of the Spanish prison in Texas where Santa Anna executed roughly 400 Texans? 

Goliad