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Vocabulary
Who Am I?
The Transcontinental Railroad
The 14th and 15th Amendments
Potpourri
100
Areas of land specifically set aside by the Federal Government for Native Americans.
What are reservations?
100
When I heard Custer and his men start to fire and attack our camp, I didn't lose my head. I went into my tepee, invited those willing to join me, and had a smoke until we figured out a strategy.
Who is Sitting Bull?
100
We were hired when other workers were unwilling to take on the dangerous task of blasting through the Sierra Nevada mountains for the Central Pacific Railroad company.
Who are the Chinese rail workers (coolies)?
100
This Amendment guarantees that "All persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens".
What is the 14th Amendment?
100
Lincoln's plan to offer a pardon to Confederate states if this percentage of the voters of each state swore to support the Constitution and Union of The United States, while also abolishing slavery.
What is the 10% Plan?
200
A self-appointed enforcer of the law or justice.
What is a vigilante?
200
I led the Nez Perce Indians of Oregon and Idaho against United States troops until we were forced to surrender at the Canadian border. I declared, "I am tired of fighting....our chiefs are killed, the little children are starving to death.....I am tired and my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."
Who is Chief Joseph?
200
An immigrant group that worked for the Union Pacific Railroad company (on the eastern part of the Transcontinental Railroad). Many of them were Civil War veterans who worked between sunrise and sunset and laid 3 miles of track a day.
Who are the Irish?
200
This Amendment provided that a person or who held a federal or state government position before the Civil War and who gave aid and comfort to the Confederate cause could not hold office without first being pardoned by Congress.
What is the 14th Amendment?
200
This Act required that the President would need Senate approval to dismiss an office holder that he had appointed with the advice and consent of the Senate.
What is the Tenure of Office Act?
300
Started in 1860, it worked in relays to deliver the mail across an east-west route 2,000 miles long. However, at $5 a letter it wasn't profitable, and was replaced by the telegraph.
What is the Pony Express?
300
I helped railroads and settlers work together to develop an area so that they both prospered. I introduced scientific farming, distributed livestock to farmers, supported churches and schools, and assisted in the developments of Hill country near my rail line.
Who is James J. Hill?
300
A golden spike was driven into the ground at this location in 1869, to commemorate the joining together of the two halves of the Transcontinental Railroad.
What is Promontory Point, Utah?
300
This amendment stated that "no citizen could be denied the right to vote on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
What is the 15th Amendment?
300
Name two ways that Rutherford B. Hayes gained support for his election as President by conservative Southerners even though it was a close election and he hadn't won the popular vote.
1) He promised federal aid to construct new railroads in the South. 2) He promised to control floods along the Mississippi River. 3) He promised to remove Federal Troops still in the South and to end Reconstruction.
400
These involved moving large herds of cattle across hundreds or thousands of miles to a railhead, from which the cattle would be shipped to market.
What are long drives?
400
I was a trained geologist who believed water was scarce throughout the West, so I felt it should be regulated and shared.
Who is John Wesley Powell?
400
The Chinese avoided this infectious disease (caused by poor hygiene or through food or water contaminated from a camp's water supply being to close to its sewage system) by boiling most of their food.
What is dysentery?
400
The 14th Amendment was passed because the Republicans in Congress feared that the Supreme Court might declare the __________ Act unconstitutional.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
400
Disillusioned with the corruption and "friend appointments" linked to Grant's presidency, this political party formed and ran their own candidate against Grant but lost.
What were the Liberal Republicans?
500
Settlers who arrived before the Federal Government's deadline to claim free homesteads.
What are Sooners?
500
I was the first territorial governor of Colorado and believed that limited rainfall in the plains could be overcome by drilling deep wells. Then, crops could be planted in the fertile soil, which in turn would change the climate and rainfall of the region. Overall I believe in unlimited resources!
Who is William Gilpin?
500
These were the two incentives that the U.S. Government gave railroad companies to get them to build a Transcontinental Railroad.
What are the Land to build and money for every mile of track completed?
500
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton campaigned against this amendment.
What is the 15th Amendment?
500
Name one problem faced by the North and one problem faced by the South after the Civil War.
For the North: Widespread unemployment in the North due to factories shutting down. For the South: factories, railroads and farmlands were devastated, cities burned out, banks closed, businesses disrupted, economy messed up by worthless Confederate currency.