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What book portrayed slavery as an extremely evil thing before
the Civil War?
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
What term described how the North and South were very
different areas before the Civil War? It meant that people had
more loyalty to their area than the country as a whole.
Which area of the country has the most industry?
Which area of the country has the most slaves?
Which area of the country has the most railroads?
Which area of the country has the largest population?
Which area of the country were abolitionists located?
Which area of the country has the most plantations?
What was the secret route used by slaves to escape to
Canada?
What was the name given to the rich ruling class in the South
that controlled politics and owned plantations?
When a territory was able to vote whether to have slavery?
Who won the election of 1860 which pushed the South to
secede?
What term refers to the separation of people of different races?
1820 agreement which drew a line through the Louisiana
Purchase territory. Slavery was allowed below the line and
outlawed above the line. Missouri entered the Union as a
slave state and Maine as a free state.
Supreme Court case where a slave sued for his freedom. It
was determined that he was not a citizen and could not sue.
An end result was that slavery would be allowed anywhere in
the United States.
What 1793 invention by Eli Whitney made it easier to pick
seeds out of cotton so that cotton could now be grown for a
profit.
Name given to people who wanted to end slavery.
First hand accounts – the person actually saw the event occur.
What term refers to the plan for rebuilding the South after the
Civil War?
In the 1840’s when President James K. Polk led the movement
to expand the United States to the Pacific Ocean.
What was the original reason that Lincoln joined the war?
How do we remember the North’s strategy to win the war?
Whose plan for Reconstruction said state governments must
be disbanded, states must write new constitutions, states had
to ratify the 14th Amendment and allow African Americans to
vote?
Who was the first president to be impeached?
What amendment freed the slaves?
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
sectionalism
North
South
North
North
North
South
Underground Railroad
cottonocracy
Popular sovereignty
Abraham Lincoln
segregation
Missouri Compromise
Dred Scott Case
Cotton gin
abolitionists
Primary source
Reconstruction
Manifest Destiny
Bring the Union back together
Chain – Saw - Seize
Radical Republicans
Andrew Johnson
13th Amendment
What was the name given to laws designed to limit the rights of
blacks? The laws were passed immediately after the war.
Voters had to pay a fee in order to vote.
Black codes
Name 3 of the 4 S’s that were causes of the Civil War.
Sectionalism, states’ rights, slavery,
secession
Freedman’s Bureau
What was the name given to the government organization
designed to help former slaves?
What was the capital of the South for most of the war?
What did the chain stand for in the Northern strategy to win the
war?
What group’s goal was to break the power of rich southern
planters?
What was another name for the North’s blockade? In other
words, it was called the _____ Plan.
What economic problem did both the North and South have to
deal with?
What was it called when former slaves worked land and in
return had to pay off a part of their crop and the cost of rent /
seed in return? Most never made enough to pay off their
debts.
People could vote if they could read and explain a section of
the Constitution.
Group who used violence to harass freedmen.
What was the South’s strategy for winning the war?
What did the saw stand for in the Union plan of victory?
What was the name given to southern Republicans who
cooperated with Reconstruction?
What freed the slaves in area under Confederate control?
Where did General Lee surrender?
Who proposed the 10% Plan of Reconstruction?
What amendment gave African Americans the right to vote?
How did the Emancipation Proclamation change the focus of
the war?
Why was the South fighting the war?
Name given to former slaves.
What did the Seize stand for in the Union plan of victory?
What famous African American unit fought courageously at
Fort Wagner, South Carolina?
What term means the legal separation of the races?
A person could vote if their father or grandfather had voted.
What term refers to the idea that some states believed their
interests were more important than the issues of the nation as
a whole?
What battle was known as the turning point of the Civil War?
Poll tax
Richmond, Virginia
Blockade the South
Radical Republicans
Anaconda
Inflation.
sharecropping
Literacy test
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
Fight a defensive war until the North
got tired of fighting
Capture the Mississippi River,
splitting the Confederacy in 2
Scalawags
Emancipation Proclamation
Appomattox Courthouse
Abraham Lincoln
15th Amendment
Added freeing slaves to the goals of
the war
To save the “Southern way of life””
which included slavery
freedmen
Capture Richmond
54th Massachusetts
segregation
Grandfather clause
States’ rights
Gettysburg
Before the Civil War, which section of the country was most for
states’ rights?
What was the name of the most famous iron-clad battle?
Northerners who came to the South during Reconstruction for
their own personal benefit?
What amendment made former slaves citizens?
What laws kept African Americans from gaining political and
economic power immediately after the war was over?
How many slaves were freed immediately by the Emancipation
Proclamation?
Who was the most famous Confederate General?
Laws which segregated blacks and whites.
Supreme Court case which made segregation legal if facilities
were equal.
Which army had the advantage of fighting mostly on their
homeland?
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
Who won the battle of Gettysburg?
What term means a strong sense of loyalty to a state or
nation?
Who made the Gettysburg Address?
Who was the President of the Confederate States of America?
Who was the most successful Union General?
Sharecropping was very similar to what?
Which side had more industry before the Civil War?
Which side had more slavery before the Civil War?
What said the Civil War was a test of whether a democratic
government could survive?
Which side had a larger population before the Civil War
began?
Who was the President of the United States during the Civil
War?
Who was afraid of competition from freedmen?
Which army had a better navy when the war began?
In 1866 Congress passed the Civil Rights Act granting
citizenship to African Americans. What amendment did this
create?
What animal were Native American on the plains dependent
on?
What were the results when gold was found in an area?
What Asian immigrant came to work in the mines and on the
transcontinental railroad?
South
Monitor vs. Merrimack
carpetbaggers
14th Amendment
Black codes
Zero – Confederate states didn’t
consider Lincoln their president and
didn’t listen to him so zero
Robert E. Lee
Jim Crow Laws
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
South
John Wilkes Booth
North
sectionalism
Abraham Lincoln
Jefferson Davis
Ulysses S. Grant
slavery
North
South
Gettysburg Address
North
Abraham Lincoln
Poor in the South and factory
workers in the North
North
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14 Amendment
buffalo
Native American tribes lost their
land, boom towns
Chinese
What thing caused the most growth out west?
At what battle was George Armstrong Custer defeated by
Sitting Bull?
What were areas that Native Americans were forced to live
called?
What happened when Native Americans tried to fight to keep
their land?
What act attempted to make Native Americans become
farmers like white people?
What act gave farmers 160 acres if they farmed it for 5 years?
What were farmers on the Great Plains called?
What did farmers surround their fields with so that animals
didn’t eat their crops?
What robber baron is associated with the railroad movement?
Secret agreements to charge lower prices to large shippers on
railroads.
When several small companies agree to divide up the business
in an area.
What made it easier and cheaper to produce stronger steel?
Rich industrialists who used any means possible including
eliminating competition to grow their business.
What person is associated with the steel industry?
What is it called when a business controls all the means of
production from mining the raw materials to selling the finished
product?
Why do people invest in a corporation?
What is the name given to a business owned by investors?
What are shares in a corporation called?
When investors receive a share of the corporations profit.
What person was associated with the oil industry?
What was Rockefeller’s business called?
What is it called when a single board of directors controls many
companies.
What is it called when a company controls most of an industry?
What is it called when a business is owned by private citizens
who decide what to produce in order to make as much money
as possible?
What was it called when goods were made in factories located
in cities? People moved to the cities to find jobs causing cities
to grow quickly.
This was an act designed to control monopolies and trusts. It
was often misused to stop unions from striking.
Who inventor was known as the Wizard of Menlo Park?
Railroads (including
transcontinental railroads) caused
various other businesses to grow
Little Big Horn
reservations
They lost the war although they
may have won battles
The Dawes Act
Homestead Act
sodbusters
Barbed wire – this closed off the
open range, ending the cattle boom
Cornelius Vanderbilt
rebates
pool
Bessemer process
Robber barons
Andrew Carnegie
Vertical integration
To share in the corporation’s profits
through dividends and/or reselling
their stock
Corporation
stock
dividend
John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil
trust
monopoly
Free enterprise system
Industrial revolution
Sherman Antitrust Act
Thomas Edison
Workers stayed in one place putting interchangeable parts on
products as they came to them.
Who developed the idea of an automated assembly line?
What happened because of the automated assembly line?
What was the first major union in the United States?
What was the name given to groups of workers trying to
improve working conditions?
Who was the leader of the Knights of Labor?
Robber Baron banker who later controlled many industries by
getting on the board of directors of corporations.
Who was the leader of the AFL (American Federation of
Labor)?
What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
What was the result of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
Automated assembly line
Henry Ford
The price of goods became cheaper
making it so more people could
afford them.
Knights of Labor
Labor unions
Terence Powderly
J.P. Morgan
Samuel Gompers
A 1911 fire where many young
women died because they worked
in poor safety conditions.
Improved safety conditions in
factories – especially fire safety
strike
What was the name given to a work stoppage by workers to try
to get better working conditions?
What was the advantage of factory owners hiring children?
They could be paid less than adults.
Whose pictures exposed the dangers of child labor?
Lewis Hines
What was it called when immigrants blended into a single
Melting pot
culture?
What is it called when people of the U.S. share common beliefs Cultural pluralism or the salad bowl
such as democracy and capitalism, but still have distinct ethnic
theory.
beliefs they pass on over generations?
What term refers to the process of fitting into America?
acculturation
A person who leaves their homeland to settle in another
immigrant
country.
A condition that made people decide to leave their homelands.
Push factor
A condition which attracted people to settle in a new area.
Pull factor
A group of people who share the same culture.
Ethnic group
When a group of people took on a new culture to fit in.
Immigrants did this to become American.
The process of becoming a citizen.
Assimilation
naturalization
The fear of foreigners.
xenophobia
A small apartment in a city slum building.
tenement
Act passed in 1882 that stopped Chinese immigration for 10
years.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Act which limited immigration to 350,000 people per year when
it was passed in 1921. Each country could send a certain
number of people to the U.S. based upon the percentage of
people with that ancestry already living in the United States.
An ethnic neighborhood which helped immigrants as they
arrived in America.
Religious and political persecution and famine were examples
of…
Cheap land, jobs and the hope of gaining riches were
examples of…
Place where immigrants faced their final inspection before
entering the country in New York.
The earliest immigrants came from these sections of Europe.
Quota Act
ghetto
Push factors
Pull factors
Ellis Island
Western and Northern
The second wave of immigrants came from these sections of
Europe.
This country sends the most immigrants to the United States
today.
Group of people who wanted to end immigration.
Southern and Eastern
What caused cities to grow in the late 1800’s / early 1900’s?
Factory jobs
Immigration
Excitement of living in the city
Treating someone unfairly due to their race, ethnicity, age or
gender.
Christian organization which offered food and shelter to the
poor.
Who set up Hull House in Chicago? It provided help in
learning English, provided daycare, and held sports events for
children.
Community centers which offered help to the poor.
Author of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer.
Sensational newspaper style which emphasized scandals and
crime over real news to sell stories.
Variety shows which included comedians, song-and-dance
routines, and acrobats.
Published the World, the first mass circulation newspaper.
discrimination
Published the Journal and helped to develop the idea of yellow
journalism.
Writers who tried to show life as it actually was.
Mexico
nativists
Salvation army
Jane Addams
Settlement houses
Mark Twain
Yellow journalism
vaudeville
Joseph Pulitzer
Wililam Randolph Hearst
realists