Immigration
How many major waves of immigrants were there after the Civil War?
Two
__________ is unjust treatment by a government.
Oppression
A ________ is someone who buys or uses goods and services.
Consumer
____________ was a well-known 1800s general from Virginia who chose to lead the Confederate Army when the Civil War began.
Robert E. Lee
What is Miss Weyels new last name going to be?
Carr
_________ is variety of American life.
Diversity
Immigrants left their homelands for many reasons. Some escaped _______.
Wars
An _________ is someone who puts money into a business to make a profit.
Investor
The Gettysburg Address is a short but powerful speech President ______________ delivered on November 19, 1863.
Abraham Lincoln
____________ was the time when the country worked to rebuild the South and help formerly enslaved people become citizens with new rights
Reconstruction
Immigrants came to the United States in search of _________ and __________.
freedom and opportunity
An ________ creates and runs a new business and takes on all the risks of the business.
Entrepreneur
True or false. Edison created a working light bulb.
True
____________ was a leading Union general in the Civil War and later the 18th U.S. president.
Ulysses S. Grant
___________ is the bringing of charges of wrongdoing against an elected official by the House of Representatives.
Impeachment
True or false. Every immigrant came to stay.
False. Some came for money
The economy of the United States is a free __________ system.
enterprise
True or false. Edison only invented the lightbulb.
False
After President Lincoln’s assassination, Vice President _____________ became president
Andrew Johnson
The ________________________ was a 1,911-mile continuous rail line built between 1863 and 1869 to connect the U.S. Atlantic and Pacific coasts for the first time.
Transcontinental Railroad
___________ is unfair negative opinions about a group of people.
Prejudice
The growth of cities is called ________________.
Urbanization
_____ is the money an investor earns when the business does well.
Profit
an __________ is an official change or addition to the Constitution that updates or adds rights and rules
amendment
The ____________________ was a secret, loosely organized network of free Black people, white abolitionists, and safe houses that helped roughly 100,000 enslaved people escape from Southern states to the North and Canada between 1830 and 1865
Underground Railroad