This document signed by President Lincoln freed all slaves in southern states still fighting against the Union in 1863.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
Northern Republicans who went to the South to serve in state governments and to seek economic gain during Reconstruction.
Who were carpetbaggers?
200
The act of requiring people to serve in the military.
What is conscription?
200
He was the inventor of the telegraph.
Who was Samuel F.B. Morse?
200
Civil war general known for his march through Georgia.
Who was William T. Sherman?
200
Southern laws that promoted segregation after the Reconstruction period.
What were Jim Crow laws?
200
After the Civil War, this government program provided education, job training, medical and housing assistance to former slaves.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
300
A giant corporation made up of a group of companies.
What is a trust?
300
The assassination of this archduke from Austria was the "spark" that started World War I.
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
300
Famous Civil War general who defeated Robert E. Lee in Virginia.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
300
The Ten Percent Plan for Reconstruction is associated with this president.
Who was President Lincoln?
300
This government agency promoted the interests of blacks after the Civil War by providing them with jobs, educational opportunities, medicare care, and other basic needs.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
400
A large company usually formed by a group of investors.
What is a corporation?
400
He was the American president during World War I.
Who was President Woodrow Wilson?
400
He was the fascist dictator of Italy.
Who was Benito Mussolini?
400
The ban of making and sale of alcoholic drinks.
What was the prohibition law (18th Amendment)?
400
Southerners who supported Reconstruction after the Civil War.
Who were Scalawags?
500
Complete control over a supply, service, or market.
What is a monopoly?
500
He was the first person to fly solo from New York to Paris in 1927.
Who was Charles Lindbergh?
500
He was the fascist dictator of Germany.
Who was Adolph Hitler?
500
The program of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to get the United States out of the Great Depression?
What was the New Deal?
500
The system of farming engaged by freedmen after the Civil War in which they would work another person's land use part of their crops as rent.