The West
Civil Rights
The Grant Admin
A Woman's Place
Melting Pot
100

Military blunder for Col. Custer and his troops 

What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?

100

The amendment that formally abolished slavery in the U.S.

What is the 13th?

100

Grant's campaign slogan and general policy was "Let there be ___"?

What is Peace?

100

Women of all races were caught in the fray of this major conflict, making economic prosperity a bleak hope.

What is The Civil War?

100

A process in which farmers worked land they did not own and traded a set percentage of their annual yield for the right to work the field the next season. The ratios of what they could make was often based on the amount of tools they needed, domestic animals, they needed to rent and whether they needed to live on the land.

What is sharecropping?

250

This act, signed in 1862, is the largest land act distribution act in the United States. With a $28 registration fee, you could stake a "free" claim to 160 acres. 

What is the Homestead Act?

250

The laws in the south enacted before "Jim Crow" to prevent the advancement of Black people.

What are Black codes?
250

A spell of economic depression in the late 1800s due to a withdrawal of greenbacks from circulation (a result of Grant's policy to stave off inflation). 


What is the Panic of 1873?
250

A space where women could enjoy some social mobility and improve their status.

What is The West?
250

The founder and 1st President of the Tuskegee Institute

Who is Booker T. Washington

500
All-Black military regiment who lived on the plains and were formed to be "Indian Fighters".

Who are the Buffalo Soldiers?

500

the foremost Black educator in the 1890s. Believed that their race should first achieve economic stability that would ultimately provide for the advancement of their social status.

Who is Booker T. Washington?

500

Groups organized by Republicans in former Confederate states to recruit Black voters to join the Republican party. Their encouragement of Black Republicans worried White Democrats. Helped elect Black men to offices throughout the former Confederate states and increasing the enfranchisement of Black male voters.

What are Union Leagues?

500

Came to public attention when she was denied a seat on a railroad car due to her race. She filed suit and won, but this was overturned on appeal to the Tennessee Supreme Court. From this event she found her life’s calling, and helped found the NAACP in 1909. 

Who is Ida B. Wells

500
Indeterminate electoral college winner in a late 1800s election results in the this, signaling the end of reconstruction.

What is the Compromise of 1877?

750

A condition that made eastern suburbanites seem unfit for a successful life in the world, and the survivalist, competitive, aggressive exercise cures being the West.

What is neurasthenia?

750

In 1896, the Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal so long as both races received the same quality of accommodations or services.

What is Plessy vs Ferguson?

750

Court said 14th Amendment did not protect individuals against the actions of other individuals.

What is U.S. vs. Cruikshank?

750

Black Women were primarily schoolteachers and nurses under the government organization known as ___.

What is The Freedmen's Bureau?

750

Tenant farming in the south was based on credit for this reason.

What is a lack of cash?
1000
Invented barbed wire in 1873, helping ranchers but indirectly caused conflict among American Indians

Who is Joseph Glidden?

1000
Cases that grew out of a cholera outbreak due to improper meat handling in 1867 New Orleans

What are The Slaughterhouse Cases?

1000

Prohibits individuals from assembling or disguising themselves with the intent to violate African Americans’ constitutional rights.

What are the Enforcement Acts?

1000

A former slave who lived in Montana and worked as a hired hand. 1st woman to be a star route postwoman in the U.S.

Stagecoach Mary

1000

Ely Parker was a chief in this American Indian Nation.

Who are the Seneca?