Key Things

Question 1

LOUISIANA PURCHASE

Answer 1

530mill acres land bought from France in 1803

Question 2

ABOLISIONISTS

Answer 2

Small number of white and free black Americans who were against slavery.

Growth of slavery immoral

Set out to stop it altogether

Question 3

COTTON GIN

Answer 3

1739–ELI WHITNEY

processed cotton 50x faster

Slavery expansion

Question 4

MISSOURI COMPROMISE

Answer 4

1820

Drew a vertical line between middle country

States created in west ABOVE LINE became FREE STATES and BELOW LINE would be SLAVE STATES

Question 5

MISSOURI COMPROMISE also said

Answer 5

For every slave state there would be a free state to keep a balance or power

Question 6

INDIAN REMOVAL ACT

Answer 6

1839

Law which promised tribes money if they relocate

Made by Andrew Jackson

Question 7

MORMONS

Answer 7

Religious group set up in early 19th century

Question 8

POLYGAMY

Answer 8

Marrying many wives

Mormon beliefs

Question 9

MORMONS leader and where they chose to settle

Answer 9

Brigham young

Great salt lake

Question 10

GOLD no.1

Answer 10

California discovered in 1848

1849-50,000 went to mine these were called the 49ers

Question 11

GOLD no.2

Answer 11

1858

Pikes peak in Kansas—occupied by Cheyenne Indians

1859 over 100,000 rush to place (59ers)

Question 12

What did the gold rush in pikes peak lead to the discovery of

Answer 12

The plains were inhabitable

Whites began settling. Which broke treaty’s from 1850s
Tribes begging fighting back

By 1860 war between USA and plains inevitable

Question 13

when was LINCOLN elected and who supported him most

Answer 13

Nov 1860

North, almost no support from south

Question 14

What did Lincoln make illegal when he fully became president in March 4 1961

Answer 14

Confederacy

Question 15

When was war declared

Answer 15

15 April 1961

Lincoln would defend union

Question 16

EMANCIPATION PROCLIMATION

Answer 16

All slaves in confederate states free

Question 17

13th amendment

Answer 17

Jan 1865 (emmansipation proclimation)

Question 18

Lincoln died when leaving who to replace him

Answer 18

April 1865

Andrew jackson

Question 19

What period was known as radical reconstruction

Answer 19

Feb 1866

Question 20

Congress bought civil rights bill when and what is it

Answer 20

A law to protect rights of all black Americans

March 1866

Question 21

14th amendment

Answer 21

July 1868

Anyone born in USA is us citizens now matter skin colour

Question 22

15th amendment

Answer 22

March 1870

All black Americans right to vote

Question 23

Freedman’s bureau

Answer 23

assisting freedmen (former slaves) in the South

Question 24

What happened in 1870

Answer 24

Freedman’s bureau was shut down

Question 25

Abraham approved what in 1862 which would do what

Answer 25

Pacific railroad act Provide money to companies willing to build railroad connecting east and west

Question 26

What is union pacific and central pacific

Answer 26

Union pacific-east to west central pacific-west to east

Question 27

Long drive

Answer 27

Taking cattle over plains to be sold

Question 28

What did long drives cause conflict with

Answer 28

Indian buffalo hunting lands

Question 29

Texas longhorns

Answer 29

Hardy cattle

Question 30

Cow towns

Answer 30

Located railroad lines Where cattle bought and sold

Question 31

Cattle ranches

Answer 31

Located on plains Set up so cattle not driven all way from Texas

Question 32

HOMESTEAD ACT

Answer 32

Offered people 160 acres of land free for 5 years

Question 33

HOMESTEADS

Answer 33

Houses built on plains out of sod

Question 34

Ghost dance

Answer 34

1890s religious movement Believed if they danced and prayed white settlers would leave and buffalo return

Question 35

What did the gov do in 1890

Answer 35

Sent in army to stop ghost dancers Many tan away to Dakota They were eventually tracked down at WOUNDED KNEE

Question 36

WOUNDED KNEE

Answer 36

Army open fired in ghost dancers killing over 250 men women and kids On 15 Jan 1891 4,000 ghost dancers surrender

Question 37

JIM CROW

Answer 37

Introduced in 1890s Segregation