Act signed by Abraham Lincoln to turnover vast amounts of the public domain to private citizens
What is the Homestead Act
100
The president of the U.S. who signed the emancipation proclamation
What is Abraham Lincoln
100
Consisted of the passing of five laws dealing with Slavery, the admission of California as a state, the removal of the Fugitive slave act, and slave trade in Washington DC was abolished- all in 1850
What is the Compromise of 1850
100
Act that Americanized the Native Americans
What is the Dawes Severalty Act
200
The first major battle of the Civil War, and made the north fear losing the war.
What is First battle of Manassas Junction (Battle of Bull Run)
200
Union general replaced twice during the civil war.
What is General McClellan
200
Famous Indian Chief who played a major role in the struggle between the US and Native Americans
What is Sitting Bull
200
Group of people, also known as a party, who practiced extreme nativism
What is the Know Nothings
200
Southern sympathizers in the north who moved south to capitalize off of the fallen economy
What is Carpet baggers
300
Approximately 200 Native Americans were massacred at a creek in South Dakota by US troops on December 29,1890.
What is Wounded Knee
300
General of all union forces at the end of the war.
What is General Grant
300
Best known for his resistance to the US Government's attempt to force his tribe -Nez Perce- onto reservations
What is Chief Joseph
300
Political party consisting of a mix of the whig and liberty parties that strongly opposed moving slavery into the western territories
What is the Free Soil Party
300
These restricted the movement, civil liberties, and other human rights of freed slaves
What is Black Codes
400
Marked a turning point in the war, of which the south never recovered
What is the battle of Gettysburg
400
Commanding General of all Southern Forces.
What is General Robert E. Lee
400
Murdered US president Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater in 1865
What is John Wilkes Booth
400
Repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed western territories to vote for slavery through popular sovereignty
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
400
Amendments that freed the slaves, gave them citizenship, and allowed them to vote
What is the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendment
500
This is the site where General Robert E.Lee surrendered all southern forces to General Ulysses S. Grant
What is Appomattox Courthouse
500
United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry -prohibiting monopolies
What is the Interstate Commerce Act
500
Confederate President
What is Jefferson Davis
500
Limited the president's power to remove office holders without approval from the senate
What is the Tenure of Office Act
500
Ended reconstruction by ridding congress of radical republicans