The North
The South
Laws and Political Party
Change
Historical Figures
100

This was essential to the North during the nineteenth century.

What is commerce?

100

This was essential to the South during the nineteenth century.

What is cotton?

100

This is what year the Civil War ended.

What is 1965?

100

These events helped to transform the West.

What are burgeoning railroads, the growth of mining, and cattle ranching?

100

Describe the following person and their significance to American Literature:

Abe Lincoln

Abe Lincoln

200

This helped turn northern towns and cities into centers of bustling activity.

What is transportation?

200

This was considered the "lifeblood" of the South.

What is slavery?

200

This was the year that Lincoln was elected president.

What is 1860?

200

What happened to the Native Americans during Western expansion?

What is displacement?
200

Describe the following person and their significance to American Literature:

Warren Goss

Warren Goss

300

This country was a part of the "immigration wave"

What is Ireland or Germany

300

This crop (excluding cotton) was a major trade export from the South.

What are sugar, rice, and tobacco?

300

This was the political party that Lincoln represented.

What is the Republican Party?

300

What major echnological advance came in the 1880s?

What is electricity?

300

Describe the following person and their significance to American Literature:

Stonewall Jackson 

Stonewall Jackson

400

This speech was meant to inspire crowds of tired soldiers to keep fighting.

What is the Gettysburg Address?

400

This was the name given to the states that seceded from the United States.

What are The Confederate States of America?

400

This act promised 160 acres to anyone willing to live on the land and tend to it.

What is the Homestead Act?

400

This rose as an important new medium as a result of the Second Industrial Revolution?

What is advertising?

400

Describe the following person and their significance to American Literature: Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth

500

This speech freed the slaves in the United States.

What is the Emancipation Proclamation?

500

This was the first state to secede from the Union.

What is South Carolina?

500

This act required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves

What is The Fugitive Slave Act

500

This was a result of the industrial boom in the late 19th century.

What are extreme wealth and poverty?

500

Describe the following person and their significance to American Literature: Mary Chesnut

Mary Chesnut