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He led America's armies during the Revolutionary War.
Who is George Washington?
100
Lincoln freed Southern slaves as a result of this document.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
Many African American were charged this when they voted, thus denying many the right to vote
What is a poll tax?
100
This group helped to raise children and worked on farms in the West.
Who are women?
100
The Indian Removal Act was created during his presidency.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
200
He was president during the Reconstruction period and nearly lost his office as a result of the Radical Republicans.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
200
He was president of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
200
Segregation laws also became known by this name
What is Jim Crow?
200
True or false. Women were active members of the work force in many American cities.
What is true?
200
This American past time (sport) became popular in the late 1800s.
What is baseball?
300
He led the Union's armies in 1864 and 1865 before becoming president in 1869.
Who is Grant?
300
Lincoln's primary aim throughout the war was to do this.
What is to preserve the union?
300
She fought for anti-lynching legislation.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
300
Her "Uncle Tom's Cabin" awoke many people to the problems of slavery before the Civil War.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
300
Most Americans received news twice a day in 1900 by reading these, published by Hearst, Pulitzer or other publishers.
What is a newspaper?
400
He agreed to end Reconstruction in order to be elected president.
Who is Rutherford B Hayes?
400
As a result of his actions in April 1865, post-War America was changed forever.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
400
This 1896 case upheld that seperate but equal was a legal practice.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
400
She was a leader of the suffrage movement and helped write the declaration of women's rights at Seneca Falls.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
400
The time period before the Civil War is known as this
What is Antebellum?
500
His actions against the Nullification Crisis of 1830 helped postpone the Civil War for nearly three decades?
Who is Andrew Jackson?
500
These two battles which the Union won in July 1863, are now considered the turning point of the War.
What are the Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg?
500
Immigrants from this nation were tied to Western lands in virtual slavery through the practice known as 'debt peonage'.
What is Mexico?
500
She helped found the Red Cross and has a birthday on December 25?
Who is Clara Barton?
500
This convention was the first to publish a declaration of rights for women in America.
What is Seneca Falls?