Farmer Boy
Unit 12
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100
Chapter 18: Lucy the pig couldn't open her mouth to eat because it was ________________________
Stuck with candy
100
What was the name given to the secret network of people that helped runaway slaves escape to freedom? (252)
The Underground Railroad
100
What does it mean to secede? (263)
To withdraw
100
What two crops sold for a high price in the South after the Civil War? (281)
Tobacco and Cotton
100
What was completed in 1869 that connected America all the way from the East Coast to the West Coast? (316)
The Transcontinental Railroad
100
Who made the very first telephone call and when was it made? (324)
Alexander Graham Bell
March 10, 1876
200
Chapter 18: When Mother and Father left, Eliza Jane said they should start chores, but Royal said they should do what?
Make ice-cream
200
In 1850, the United States government passed what law AND what did the law say? (250)
The Fugitive Slave Act
It said that the government would help slave masters recapture their runaway slaves and anyone who helped runaway slaves could be punished.
200
What two sides fought each other in the Civil War? (263)
BONUS: What was each side called?
The Northern and Southern states
North= The Union
South= The Confederacy
200
What was "hardtack"? (281)
Dry and crusty bread
200
How did the Homestead Act distribute land that the United States government owned? (309)
It made 160 acre plots of land available to those who would:
-pay $10
-Build a house
-Farm the land
-Live there for 5 years
200
What kind of school did Alexander Graham Bell teach at? (325)
A school for the deaf
300
Chapter 18: Alice and Almanzo went into the ____________ even though they weren't supposed to.
Parlor
300
What was an abolitionist? (237)
Someone who worked to stop slavery
300
Who issued the Emancipation Proclamation? (272)
Abraham Lincoln
300
What was the time after the Civil War called? (283)
Reconstruction
300
What were two typed of homes that homesteaders built in Nebraska?
Dugouts and Soddies
300
What was the name of Helen Keller's teacher? (331)
Anne Sullivan
400
Chapter 20: Almanzo made a fire from what to keep warm?
Potato tops
400
In 1854 _____________________ and _____________________ became states. (239)
Kansas and Nebraska
400
What did the Emancipation Proclamation change? (272)
Slaves were free in some places
400
In 1867 Congress passed unconstitutional new laws that limited what a _______________ could do (288)
President
400
Who set up a Red Cross organization on the United States? (306)
Clara Barton
400
Ellis Island was an __________________ ___________________ in New York Harbor through which millions of immigrants passed to start their lives in America. (337)
Immigration station
500
Chapter 20: Who ate the one potato that came out of the fire?
Alice and Almanzo
500
The Boston Slave Riot of 1854 came about in an attempt to free whom? (237)
Anthony Burns
500
On what day did General Robert E. Lee and his army surrender to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia? (276)
April 9, 1865
500
When a government official is accused of doing something wrong and has a trial to vote on whether or not they are guilty, it is called ____________________ (288)
Impeaching
500
Who is this and what did he do?
Owney
500
What was the first word that Helen Keller learned? (332)
Water