In this event, 5 land companies bribed the government to buy large amounts of land for extremely cheap.
What is The Yazoo Land Fraud?
100
This was the belief tht states could ignore federal laws if viewed as harmful to the states themselves.
What is nullification?
100
This man served as vice president to the Confederacy.
Who is Alexander Stephens?
100
This group of people would dress in hooded white sheets and masks and terrorize blacks and often lynched them.
What is The Ku Klux Klan?
100
This bloody battle resulted in the deaths of more than 16,000 men, Union and Confederate.
What is The Battle of Chickamauga?
200
This Cherokee Native invented the first written language of the Native Americans, known as the syllabary.
Who is Sequoyah?
200
This slave was denied freedom in all free states because The Supreme Court ruled him as a non-citizen of the United States.
Who is Dred Scott?
200
In this event, the Union cut off all cargo to the Confedeacy, taking away many potential supplies.
What is The Union Blockade?
200
In this method, blacks would farm on a portion of white landowners land and in return would receive housing and a share of the crops.
What is sharecropping?
200
This man was known as the "Cherokee Moses"?
Who is John Ross (rick ross grunt now)?
300
In this system, the head of the family (oldest white male) was entitled to own land west of the Mississippi River.
What is The Headright System?
300
This is when states pull themselves away from an entire nation.
What is seccesion?
300
After the conquer of Atlanta, soldiers marched from Atlanta to Savannah and this is known as..?
What is The Marh to the Sea (Sherman's March to the Sea)?
300
This amendment granted citizenship to African-Americans and all rights included in the Bill of Rights.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
300
This amendment ended slavery.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
400
This Creek Native stongly despised white settlers and encouraged resistance.
Who is Chief Alexander McGillivary?
400
In this compromise, California would become a free state if all western states could decide by popular sovereignty if they would want to be a free state or not.
What is The Compromise of 1850?
400
This document signed by Abraham Lincoln stated that slaves in Confederate Staes were free. However, it did not free slaves in Confederate states who were loyal to the Union.
What is the Emancipation Proclomation?
400
This black legislature was a bishop in the African Methodist Epiccopal Church and doubted that blacks and whites could peacefully live together.
Who is Henry Mcneal Turner?
400
Congress created this in order o aid freed slaves. It supplied clothes, medical attention, food education, and even land to African-Americans.
What is The Freedman's Bureau?
500
This is the route that the Cherokee Nation took when forced out of their own land by white settlers. It went as far as Missouri and Oregon.
What is The Trail of Tears?
500
In this event, Missouri wold be admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is The Missouri Compromise?
500
This was the bloodiest battle of the entire Civil War wih a death rate of 51,000 soldiers.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
500
This famous Civil War site was a Confederate prison that was so overcrowded and unsanitary, that nearly 13,000 the imprisoned Union people died of disease and starvation.
What is Andersonville?
500
This amendment guranteed the right to vote to all citizens (male, anyways), regardless of skin color or if that citizen was previously a slave.