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Question Answer Reconstruction-100 Which political party was against African- American Rights? Hint: Many of these people were former confederates. What were democrats?

Question Answer Reconstruction-200 These people were former slaves. They worked the land in exchange for food, shelter, clothing, and fuel. Who were the Sharecroppers?

Question Answer Reconstruction-300 This amendment abolished slavery. What was the Thirteenth Amendment?

Question Answer Reconstruction-400 This amendment made it legal to deny a person the right to vote based on race. What was the Fifteenth Amendment?

Question Answer Reconstruction-500 This case in the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation laws were constitutional as long as the public facilities were equal (“separate but equal”). What was Plessy vs. Ferguson.?

Question Answer In 1849, Americans raced to California for this event. What is the California Gold Rush? The West-100

Question Answer The West-200 In 1860, this Act gave many acres of land to anyone who farmed and made improvements to the land for a five year period. What was the Homestead Act?

Question Answer The West-300 These towns were named after the gold and silver were used up and the miners left town. What is a Ghost Town?

Question Answer The West-400 This Act forced Native Americans of South East U.S. to leave their lands and move West of the Mississippi River. What was the Indian Removal Act?

Question Answer The West- 500 While moving West, the Cherokee Indians lost thousands of people from their tribe on what journey? What was known as the Trail of Tears?

Question Answer Native Americans- Settler Relations-100 White settlers forced Native Americans to move from their lands onto Indian territory. What were these territories known as? What are Reservations?

Question Answer Native Americans- Settler Relations-200 This Native American prophet claimed that the Great Spirit would make a new world for his people. Who was Wovoka?

Question Answer Native Americans- Settlers Relations- 300 The U.S government outlawed this dance because it called on the Great Spirit to make a new world for the Americans. It would also, make the whites “Disappear”. What was called the Ghost Dance?

Question Answer Native Americans- Settler Relations-400 This was an event in which the U.S. soldiers killed Sitting Bull. The U.S. soldiers followed the Lakotas back to their reservation when a shot rang out. The result was the death of 300 Native Americans and 25 soldiers. What was Wounded Knee?

Question Answer Native Americans- Settler Relations- 500 This act encourages Native Americans to become farmers. It divides up reservations into small farms for families. What was the Dawes Act?

Question Answer Industrialization-100 During this time period industrialization increased at a rapid pace. Agrarian to an Industrial society, farms to factories, and rural to urban. What was the Industrial Revolution?

Question Answer Industrialization-200 The Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Railroad combined to create a railroad that connected the East and the West. What was the Transcontinental Railroad?

Question Answer Industrialization-300 What is it called when multiple corporations combine? What is a Trust?

Question Answer Industrialization-400 A trust that controls all or nearly all the business of an industry is called? What were Monopolies?

Question Answer Industrialization-500 This Act banned monopolies in What was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?

Question Answer Immigration-100 These immigrants were from Southern and Eastern Europe. What were New Immigrants ?

Question Answer Immigration-200 This is where immigrants were given medical exams, changed their names, and received questioning. What is Ellis Island?

Question Answer Immigrants- 300 These people opposed immigration and believed immigrants were “polluting” the American culture with their foreign cultures. Who were the Nativists?

Question Answer Immigrants -400 In 1882, this Act limited immigration from China. What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?

Question Answer Immigrants-500 These Acts of Congress established quotas that restricted immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe. What are the Immigration Acts of 1920’s?

Question Answer Final Jeopardy He was named President of the Confederacy when the Southern states seceded from the Union. Who was Jefferson Davis?