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The word that President Lincoln used as he started to make plans for the rebuilding of our nation after the Civil War.
Reenact
Repossess
Resconstruction
Respect
What did the South have to do in order to rebuild and repair after the Civil War?
Move to the north
Raise taxes
Sue the North for money
Capture more slaves
The amendment that ended slavery
The Twelfth Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment
The Fifty-Second Amendment
These were created by Southern state legislatures to limit the rights of former enslaved people.
Negative codes
Black codes
Southern codes
Slave codes
The organization that gave food and supplies to former enslaved people, and probably most importantly of all, they built 4,000 schools to educate the former slaves.
The Homestead Act
The Compromise of 1850
The Last Frontier
The Freedman's Bureau
When towns grew quickly as a result of the discovery of gold or silver, and businesses were set up to meet the needs of miners.
Boom
Bust
Shot
Prospect
When gold or silver deposits ran out and miners would move to other places causing an economic decline.
Boom
Bust
Shot
Prospect
A well-known African American cowhand.
George Armstrong Custer
Geronimo
Nat Love
Andrew Johnson
The people who settled on the Great Plains with 160 acres of land for a minimum of five years.
Settlers
Homesteaders
Squatters
Rancehers
Areas of land set aside by the government for use only by Native Americans.
Ranches
Plantations
Reservations
Sacred Lands
Who said, "I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever?"
Chief Joseph
Sitting Bull
George Armstrong Custer
Crazy Sioux
The result of forcing Native Americans onto the reservations.
They went peacefully.
They ignored the United States government.
They went to war.
They moved further west.
The result of building the transcontinental railroad did what for the people of the United States?
People could sell their goods and services in other parts of the U.S.
People could buy cheap transport tickets.
People protested the building of the railroads.
People moved to Chicago.
The man who saw a new method for making steel and began the building of steel mills in the United States.
Mesabi Range
Lewis Lattimer
Alexander Graham Bell
Andrew Carnegie
The man who set up an oil refinery near Cleveland, and created a monopoly on the oil industry.
Sitting Bull
John D. Rockefeller
Thomas Edison
Andrew Carnegie
What was the result as the demand for steel and oil increased?
People started mining for more steel.
The price of steel and oil went down.
The price of steel and oil went up.
People built more oil refineries.
The founder of the American Federation of Labor who was responsible for improving better wages and eight-hour workdays.
Rosy Cohen
Andrew Carnegie
Lewis Lattimer
Samuel Gompers
The name of the poorly built apartment building in which the immigrants lived.
Tenement
Regiment
Testament
Agreement
The reformers who started the settlement houses to provide food, health care, and classes for immigrants.
Ellis Island and Staten Island
Samuel Gompers and Edwin Drake
Jane Addams and Lillian Wald
Clara Barton and Sally Tompkins
The people who arrived between 1860 and 1920 to escape violence and poverty.
Tenements
Reformers
Immigrants
Emmigrants
The movement that occurred as thousands of African Americans began to move to northern cities.
The Great Wave
The Greatest Place on Earth
The Great Migration
The Greatest Show on Earth
The type of graph that is useful for quick comparisons.
Bar Graph
Pie or Circle Graph
Line Graph
Pictograph
The type of graph that show information in percents.
Bar Graph
Line Graph
Pie or Circle Graph
Pictograph
The type of graph that shows change over time.
Bar Graph
Line Graph
Pie or Circle Graph
Pictograph
From which continent did the majority of people immigrate from between the years 1860 and 1910?
Africa
Asia
South America
Europe
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