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History Essay
People
Terms
Terms Pt 2.
Laws/Acts
100

ONLY if you don’t have an HC ZO1, this brings in Outside Evidence.

What is ZO2?

100

FREEBIE!

Take 100 free points if your entire group has their unit 1 and 2 reference sheets.

100

The political party that was made up of Southern Whites who wanted to expand slavery and gain profit from plantations.

What is the Democratic Party?

100

This is the migration of 20,000 Southern Africans to Kansas.

What is the Black Exodus?

100

This government action allowed for the building of the Transcontinental Railroad.

What is the Pacific Railway Act?

200

How your paragraph will answer your prompt using the documents.

What is an argument?

200

Chief of the LAKOTA SIOUX people

Who is Sitting Bull?

200
When tens of thousands of people migrated to California in 1849 in order to strike it rich in gold mines.

What is the California Gold Rush?

200

This is the idea that it is the GOD GIVEN right to go West

What is Manifest Destiny?

200
This government action offered 160 free acres of land in the west AS LONG AS farmers cleared and farmed it for 5 years.

What is the Homestead Act?

300

3-5 sentences at the end of your essay. Summarizes everything you’ve argued in your essay.

What is a conclusion?

300

The leader of the NEZ PERCE

Who is Chief Joseph?

300
This is a feeling of resentment or superiority against foreign born people.
What is Nativism?
300

This is the term used to describe tension between the North and South over slavery expanding into the west. This led to the American Civil War.

What is Sectionalism?

300

This government action led to the ban of Chinese laborers from entering the US or from becoming US citizens.

What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?

400

Names one of the four corners (POV, HC, AUD, AP) and uses it to analyze the document and support the argument.

What is a ZO1?

400

The name of the nomadic tribe that fled to Canada.

Who are the Nez Perce?

400

By 1880, buffalo had all but vanished due to western settlement and over hunting by white settlers.

What is Buffalo Extinction?

400

This is a railway that connected the East to the West

What is the transcontinental railway?

400

FREEBIE

You get a free 400 points if everyone in your group can name the year the American Civil War began.

500

Places your reader in the time period. This is in the introduction, has the DATE of the time period, and tells us what has happened before the events that will be covered in the essay.

What is Broad Historical Context?

500

The leaders of the Black Exodus.

Who are Benjamin "Pap" Singleton & Henry Adams?

500

This is money that was given to a company in order to benefit the public.

What is a subsidy?

500

These laws enforced segregation of blacks and whites in the South after the civil war.

What are Jim Crow Laws?

500
This law created reservations from communally held Native American land.

What is the Dawes Act?