America

Question 1

How many people did a territory need to become a state?

Answer 1

60,000

Question 2

What was the name of the houses the homesteaders built on the plains?

Answer 2

Sod-houses

Question 3

How many acres did the Homestead Act of 1862 allow people to claim?

Answer 3

160 acres

Question 4

How much money did the US government offer the Sioux for the Black Hills?

Answer 4

$6 million

Question 5

What did the Dawes Act in 1887 give Indian families if they chose to leave the reservation?

Answer 5

A 160-acre piece of land

Question 6

How many Indians were killed within the first 10 minutes of the Wounded Knee Massacre?

Answer 6

150-250 Indians

Question 7

When did Brigham Young become leader of the Mormons?

Answer 7

1845

Question 8

When did Lincoln make the Emancipation Proclamation?

Answer 8

New Year’s Day 1863

Question 9

How many southern states broke away from the US by June 1861?

Answer 9

11

Question 10

When was the Homestead Act?

Answer 10

1862

Question 11

When was the first fort Laramie treaty and what did it do?

Answer 11

1851, led to creation of reservations

Question 12

When was the Dawes Act?

Answer 12

1887

Question 13

When was Little Crow’s War?

Answer 13

August 1862

Question 14

Who was the first homesteader allocated land in 1863?

Answer 14

Daniel Freeman

Question 15

Which state left the Union first?

Answer 15

South Carolina

Question 16

Who led the Americans in the Battle of Little Big Horn?

Answer 16

General George Custer

Question 17

What year did the Donner Family leave for the west?

Answer 17

1846

Question 18

What trail did the Donner Family take?

Answer 18

Hastings Cutoff

Question 19

When was the Book of Mormons published?

Answer 19

1830

Question 20

How and when did Joseph Smith die?

Answer 20

1844, an anti-Mormon mob attacked and killed him.

Question 21

When did the Mormons move to Salt Lake City, Utah?

Answer 21

1846

Question 22

When and where was gold first discovered?

Answer 22

January 24th 1848, Sutter’s Mill, California

Question 23

When did California become a state?

Answer 23

1850

Question 24

Give an example of a man who made money out of the 49’ers.

Answer 24

Sam Brandon - $2,000 a day in profit (mining shop), sold items for x10 the price.

Question 25

What did the Mormons call the non-Mormons?

Answer 25

Gentiles

Question 26

How many Mormons did Young move to Utah?

Answer 26

16,000

Question 27

What did the 1830 Indians Removal Act do?

Answer 27

Created a permanent Indian frontier which was a border along the Mississippi. It was Indian territory.

Question 28

What percentage of America was settled as a result of the Homestead Act?

Answer 28

10%

Question 29

When did the Transcontinental Railroad start/end?

Answer 29

1860-1869

Question 30

How many acres did the government give for every mile of railroad track built?

Answer 30

12,000 acres

Question 31

When was the Sandcreek Massacre?

Answer 31

1864

Question 32

Who was the General who led the Colorado Militia in the Sandcreek Massacre?

Answer 32

General Chivington

Question 33

How many were killed at the Sandcreek Massacre?

Answer 33

150 Cheyenne men, women and children.

Question 34

How many men did Chivington have in the Sandcreek Massacre?

Answer 34

700-strong calvary

Question 35

What was the cause of Redcloud’s war in 1865-68?

Answer 35

1862 Montana Gold Rush - New Bozeman Trail broke Fort Laramie Treaty.

Question 36

When was Fetterman’s Massacre?

Answer 36

1866

Question 37

How many loggers were lured out by the Sioux in the Fetterman Massacre?

Answer 37

80

Question 38

When was the Great Sioux Reservation set up?

Answer 38

1868

Question 39

When was the Mountain Meadow Massacre?

Answer 39

1857-58

Question 40

How many deaths were there in the Civil War?

Answer 40

750,000 deaths

Question 41

What percentage of the railroad was in the north?

Answer 41

85%

Question 42

What did the 14th Amendment do?

Answer 42

All people born in the US were citizens.

Question 43

What did the 15th Amendment do?

Answer 43

voting couldn’t he decided based on race.

Question 44

What counter laws were deployed in the South after the 15th Amendment which caused segregation?

Answer 44

Jim Crow Laws

Question 45

Who was president in 1868?

Answer 45

Ulysses S Grant

Question 46

When were all southern states readmitted into the union by?

Answer 46

1870

Question 47

Who was the first black senator?

Answer 47

Hiram Revels of Mississippi

Question 48

How match did slave owners lose from the abolition of slavery?

Answer 48

$2 billion

Question 49

Who were carpetbaggers?

Answer 49

Northerners who came south to fill their empty bags with southern riches.

Question 50

Who were Scallywags?

Answer 50

Poorer farmers in the south who didn’t own slaves and supported the Union.

Question 51

When did the KKK begin?

Answer 51

1866

Question 52

What direction did the Union Pacific Company go from and to?

Answer 52

East to West

Question 53

What direction did the Central Pacific company go from and to?

Answer 53

West to East

Question 54

Who and when was the windmill invented to pump water from underground?

Answer 54

Daniel Halliday 1874

Question 55

What wheat was introduced that survived the Plains harm environment?

Answer 55

Turkey Red Wheat

Question 56

Who and when was barbed wire discovered?

Answer 56

Joseph Glidden, 1874

Question 57

When was the southern buffalo herd destroyed?

Answer 57

1875

Question 58

When was the Battle of Wounded knee?

Answer 58

1890

Question 59

When was the battle of Little Big Horn?

Answer 59

June 1876