Civil War
Civil War / Reconstruction
Civil War / Reconstruction
Immigration
Immigration Continued
100

Government only being allowed to use its power if given permission to do so by the people is known as ...  

Popular Sovereignty 

100

Who won the election of 1860?

Abraham Lincoln

100

The laws that were intended to separate black and white in public places were known as...

Jim Crow Laws

100

Factors that describe the reasons why people might leave or immigrate to the United States, including poverty, famine are called...

Push Factors

100

Theory that suggests many cultures are being incorporated and blended into ONE AMERICAN identity.

Melting Pot Theory

200

The agreement reached by Congress that added Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state to keep the number of each equal was known as...

Missouri Compromise

200

The first state to secede, or break away from the Union was ..

South Carolina

200

This Constitutional Amendment that ended slavery was ..

13th 

200

Factors that attract or motivate people to leave one country and go to the United States are called ..  

Pull Factors

200

The act of maintaining cultural traditions from the present to the future is called..

Cultural Preservation

300

The proposal of division of the large midwest region be divided into two territories, Kansas and Nebraska that would repeal the Missouri Compromise and let settlers in each territory  decide on the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty is known as the..

Kansas Nebraska Act

300
A former slave owner brought slaves with her to different territories, in which one was in a free state. The slave thought that because he was in a free state, he was therefore free.


The Supreme Court declared slaves had no claim to freedom, were property rather than citizens, and were not eligible to file lawsuits in federal court was known as...


Dred Scott v. Sanford

300

The Constitutional Amendment that gave citizenship and due process under the law was..

14th 

300

The port of immigration that is in New York is called...

Ellis Island

300

The process by which a people give up their heritage, customs, and language in order to fit in with another group

Assimilation

400

Before the Civil War began, the North and South had very differing opinions on slavery, and political and economic views. This rivalry or tension that developed between people who were loyal to their section or region of the country is known as....

sectionalism

400

Jefferson Davis was the President of...

The Confederacy

400

The Constitutional Amendment that said the right to vote cannot be denied by race, color, or previous servitude was..

15th 

400

The port of immigration that is in San Francisco is called...

Angel Island

400

Anti immigrant attitudes with a belief that American ideas / citizens are better than foreigners is called..

Nativism

500

This law admitted California as a free state, left Utah and New Mexico to decide for themselves whether to be a slave state or a free state, defined a new Texas-New Mexico boundary, and made it easier for slaveowners to recover runways under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.

Compromise of 1850

500

The name of the laws designed to control and limit the political, social, and economic opportunities of African Americans, forcing them to work under conditions not very different from slavery.

Black Codes

500

What was the name of the Supreme Court Case that ruled "separate but equal for white and colored races" was constitutional?

Plessy v. Ferguson

500

Theory that says immigrant groups mix into American culture, but maintain characteristics of their own cultural identity is called..

Salad Bowl Theory

500

Most of the immigrants coming to the United States came from what continent?

Europe