U.S. History: Civil War--Settlement of the West

Question 1

The Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott was _____________.

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property

Question 2

Federal Land given to Native Americans in exchange for a treaty with the U.S. Government

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Reservation

Question 3

Name given to the time period following the Civil War; era of great promise for Af. Americans

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Reconstruction

Question 4

Loyalty that Americans felt towards their section or region of the country

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Sectionalism

Question 5

Speech delivered by William Jennings Bryan at the Democratic Convention of 1896

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"Cross of Gold"

Question 6

Group of Republicans who believed the South should be punished and Af. Am. be given citizenship

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Radical Republicans

Question 7

Registration fees for voting

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Poll Tax

Question 8

Homes built from thick clumps of grass and soil cut into bricks (similar to adobe)

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sod houses

Question 9

Bloodiest battle of the Civil War

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Antietam

Question 10

Amendment which prohibited slavery

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13th

Question 11

16th President of the United States

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Abraham Lincoln

Question 12

Factors, such as economic opportunities, that attract people to a new area

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Pull Factors

Question 13

Public areas not belonging to anyone and not fenced in

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Open Range

Question 14

Group of Af.-American soldiers who faced some of the heaviest fighting against Native Americans

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Buffalo Soldiers

Question 15

Amendement which gave citizenship to African-Americans and other minorities born in the U.S.

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14th

Question 16

Political Party that opposed the extension of slavery

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Republican Party

Question 17

These towns sprang up almost overnight near mining areas

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Boom Towns

Question 18

Abolitionist who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 19

Federal Fort in the harbor of Charleston South Carolina. Beginning of Civil War.

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Fort Sumter

Question 20

Republican who won the Election of 1860

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Abraham Lincoln

Question 21

Native American Tribe native to the Great Plains, specifically around the Dakotas

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Sioux

Question 22

Political Party formed through the Farmers Alliances

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Populist Party

Question 23

Factors that cause a person or group to leave a place

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Push

Question 24

Ratio of silver to gold preferred by the Populists (silver:gold)

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16:1

Question 25

17th President of the United States

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Abraham Lincoln

Question 26

Town in which General Robert E. Lee (Confederacy) surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant (Union):

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Appomattox

Question 27

This Act from Congress was meant to Americanize the Native Americans (Indians).

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Dawes Act

Question 28

System of laws that discriminated against African Americans immediately after the Civil War

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Black Codes

Question 29

National association of farmers' social clubs

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The Grange

Question 30

Prohibited slavery north of the 36o30'N line & admitted Maine & Missouri

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Missouri Compromise

Question 31

Movement of people from one place to another

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Migration

Question 32

Democrat who was backed by the Populist Party during the election of 1896

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William Jennings Bryan

Question 33

President of the Confederate States of America (the Confederacy).

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Jefferson Davis

Question 34

This 1862 Act from Congress promised 160 acres of land if it was cared for it for 5 years

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Homestead Act

Question 35

Individuals who wanted to get rid of the institution of slavery

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Abolitionists

Question 36

When prices rise

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inflation

Question 37

First African American elected to Congress

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Hiram Rhodes Revels

Question 38

Rolling, treeless plain that stretched from Texas to North Dakota

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Great Plains

Question 39

Proposed Union military strategy that would have cut the South in two due to naval blockades

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Anaconda Plan

U.S. History: Civil War--Settlement of the West

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U.S. History: Civil War--Settlement of the West

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