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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| gun warehouse | arsenal |
| right of people to create their own government | popular sovereignty |
| fighting between people of the same country | civil war |
| legal case brought to settle a dispuit between people or groups | lawsuit |
| runaway;such as an escaped slave | fugitive |
| actions aginst one's country | treason |
| anyone who sacrifices his or her own life for beliefs | martyr |
| pro slavery person who rode from Missouri to Kansas to battle antislavery forces | border ruffian |
| What was the goal of the free-soil party? | to ban slavery in western territories |
| To what area did the Missouri compromise apply? | lands in the Louisiana purchase |
| What issue led to the compromise of 1850? | admitting California to the union in 1850 gave free states an advantage over slave states |
| Why did conflict arise in 1848 in western territories over the issue of slavery? | the legality of slavery had to be decided in lands added from the Mexican cession |
| debates over____caused violence to erupt on the senate floor | Kansas-Nebraska act |
| what was the effect on Uncle Toms Cabin | it heightened tension between the north and the south |
| how were the goals of the republican party and the free-soil party alike? | both wanted to keep slavery out of the western territories |
| what was one effect of the Dred Scott decision? | it was condemned by free African Americans |
| tax on a person's earnings | income tax |
| northerner who opposed using force to keep the south in the union | copperhead |
| law requiring all men between certain ages to serve in the military if called | draft |
| rise in prices and decrease in money | inflation |
| destruction of food and equipment that is useful to all of the enemy population, civilians as well as soilders | total war |
| set free | emancipate |
| right to be charged or have a hearing before being jailed | habeas corpus |
| rule by army instead of elected government | martial law |
| person who overcharged the government for goods desperately needed for the war | profiteer |
| one of the bloodiest civil war battles | battle of Shiloh |
| General Jackson's last battle | Battle of Chancellorsville |
| one of the worst defeats for the union | Battle of Fredricksburg |
| Who was president of the confederacy during the civil war? | Jefferson Davis |
| why did Lincoln handle the slavery issue cautiously at the beginning of the civil war? | because he wanted the border states to remain with the union |
| who was most likely to disapprove of the emancipation proclomation | a southern planter |
| what did both the north and south experience during the civil war | inflation |
| how did slaves in the south contribute to the union war effect? | they refused to work on plantations |
| what was grant's plan for ending the war? | destroy anything that might be useful to the enemy |
| what adjective best describe's lincoln's goal for peace? | forgiving |
| person who farms land owned by another in exchange for part of the crops at harvest time | sharecropper |
| examination that determined whether a voter could read and explain a section of the constitution | literacy test |
| northerner who moved to the south after the civil war | carpetbagger |
| law stating that a voter whose father or grandfather could vote on January 1, 1867, did not have to take the literary test | grandfather clause |
| laws that severely limited the rights of former slaves | black codes |
| legal separation of the races | segregation |
| white southerner who supported the new republican governments in the south | scalawag |
| person who had been a slave | freedman |
| fee paid by voters to be able to vote | poll tax |
| what effect did the war have on both regions? | returning soldiers faced economic uncertainty |
| what early reconstruction measure contributed to the education of former slaves? | the Freedman's Bureau |
| why did the black codes infuriate republican representatives? | they thought the black codes deprived African Americans of equal opportunities |
| what event helped persuade voters to elect a republican congress in 1866? | an outbreak of violence in New Orleans against African Americans |
| what were new forces in southern politics after the civil war? | white southern republicans;newly arrived northerners and African Americans |
| why did congress rebel against president Johnson's reconstruction plan? | it was too lenient |
| What did the Amnesty Act do? | it restored the vote to most white southerners |
| how did southern conservatives resist Reconstruction? | they resorted violence against African Americans and white republicans |
| what did Rutherford B. Hayes promise to do in return for disputed southern electoral votes? | remove all federal troops stationed in southern states |
| why did sharecroppers become trapped into a cycle of poverty? | they did not earn enough cash to pay off their debts |
| a government grant of land or money | subsidy |
| an organization that pools resources to buy large quantities at lower prices | cooperative |
| area set aside for native Americans | reservation |
| fenced enclosure for cattle | corral |
| rich vein of gold or silver | lode |
| what changed the way plains Indians hunted | prairie dogs |
| what was the greatest threat to cowhands on cattle drives? | runaway herds |
| What were the terms of the Fort Laramie Treaty? | land would be reserved for native Americans forever, and they would receive tools, domestic animals and money |
| why was the Dawes act of 1887 unsuccessful? | the act ignored the traditional native American views of land ownership |
| what role did the buffalo play in the lives of plains Indians? | they were a source of food,clothing, and shelter |
| why did many exodusters move to Kansas in 1879? | to homestead a new land because African Americans' rights were challenged at the end of reconstruction |
| in plain Indian societies men were most likely to ______? | lead tribal religious ceremonies |
| what location did native Americans win a victory over cavalry troops? | little big horn valley |
| how did plains Indians from different nations communicate with each other? | by sign language |
| why were Texas longhorn cattle popular in the commercial market? | they required fairly lo maintenance |
| how was a woman's social rank established in plain Indian society? | by demonstrating artistic skills |
| how did the native American way of life come to an end? | the government took away power of the tribal leaders |
| how did the homestead act encourage people to move west? | it offered free land for those willing to farm it |
| what is one challenge foreign miners faced on the mining frontier? | mobs forced Mexicans to leave their claims |
| the plains Indians pretty much used buffalo for everything except___ | transportation |
| whose job was concerned primarily with tending and driving cattle herds to market? | cowhand |
| what was not a factor contributing to the near extinction of the buffalo? | herding buffalo to eastern markets |
| across the ocean | transatlantic |
| license for a new invention | patent |
| making large quantities of a product quickly and cheaply | mass production |
| method of production in which workers add parts to a product as it moves past them on a belt | moving-assembly line |
| what sped up communication and the pace of business | telephone |
| who created a special device that oiled engines automatically? | Elijah McCoy |
| who employed teams of inventors to systematically produce a small invention every 10 days and a big one every 6 months? | Thomas Edison |
| who invented the flying machine? | Orville and Wilbur Wright |
| how did the relationship change between worker and boss change after the civil war? | a worker's union had less power then |
| what were the results of the 1855 strike at the Missouri pacific railroad ? | the union got their previous wages back |
| what were the goals of the American Federation of Labor? | to get better wages, hours and working conditions |
| a workplace in which people labor long hours in poor conditions for low pay | sweatshop |
| replaces a worker who has gone on strike | strikebreaker |
| the right of unions to negotiate with management on behalf of a group of workers | collective bargaining |
| stand for the famous union of garment workers that was found in 1900 | ILGWU |
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