Arts and Sciences
These "iron horses" revolutionized transportation of goods across the continent.
What is railroad train?
This president served during the Civil War and was assassinated the same year it ended.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This word, which means rebuilding, is what we call the years immediately following the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
A time when the nation's economy goes into drastic decline and there is much unemployment, low prices and not much business activity.
What is an economic depression?
What many people called the purchase of the land we now call Alaska
What is Seward's folly?
This bureau was established after the Civil War to help open schools for former slaves
What is The Freedmen's Bureau?
This man shot Abraham Lincoln at the Ford Theatre then jumped out a window
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
This invention of Joseph Glidden's helped to transform farming in the Midwest.
What is barbed wire fence?
Laws in the South, 1865-1866) that discriminated against blacks. These laws gave whites almost unlimited power.
What were the "black codes"?
People from these two countries made up the largest groups of 19th-century immigrants.
What are Germany and Ireland?
Vehicles, often double-deckers, present in the 19th century which followed tracks built on city streets
What are streetcars?
This president had shown courage when he turned his back on sectionalism and chose loyalty to the Union instead. But his stubborn, uncompromising nature proved his undoing as President during the Reconstruction.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
This constitutional amendment, ratified on December 6, 1865, made slavery illegal
What is the 13th Amendment?
The process that allows us to bring to trial federal officials (including a president) accused of Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors
What is impeachment?
If someone is Anti-Semetic what race/religion of people are they prejudiced against?
What is Jew/Jewish/Semetic?
Another word for the right to vote.
What is suffrage?
He was the president when at least 150 Sioux warriours, women and children were massacred at Wounded Knee. This was the last major armed encounter between Indians and whites in North America
Who was Benjamin Harrison (23rd president, Republican, 1889-1893)?
For $10, any citizen or anyone who filed papers to become a citizen, could have 160 acres of public land out west, including women.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
When landowners have to pay money to the government based on the value of their land or property this payment is called...
What are taxes?
The Central Pacific Railroad sent ships across the seas to bring back 7000 workers from this country to California just to build a railroad. They paid them $1 a day.
What is China?
This word means to leave your home country.
What is emigrate?
In 1877, a political deal led this president to call an end to Reconstruction. By the end of the decade, black Southerners found themselves under the lash of a new master -- a fool named Jim Crow
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes
Notherners who went South to help teach, support government, assist w/aid programs. Some also went to make money and secure land for themselves.
What were "carpetbaggers"?
A political party in the 1800s named the American Party was anti-Catholic and anti-foreign. Many people called the Party by another name. What is that name?
What was the Know-Nothing Party?
At this 1876 battle General George Armstrong Custer's troops were destroyed by Sioux warriors led by Sitting Bull.
What is Little Bighorn?