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Question 0

When did the time period after the Civil War take place? (Ex: 1000-2000)

Answer 0

1865-1877

Question 1

What was the time period immediately following the Civil War

Answer 1

Reconstruction

Question 2

Who was president during this time period?

Answer 2

Andrew Johnson

Question 3

Who were the only two presidents to ever be impeached?

Answer 3

Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton

Question 4

What is the Legacy of Slavery?

Answer 4

Slaves are poor, not educated and not many financial oppurtunities.

Question 5

How many slaves were freed from the Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil War?

Answer 5

4,000,000 slaves were freed

Question 6

What does the law the south passed do?

Answer 6

The law discriminates blacks and keeps blacks from advancing

Question 7

What supreme court case says “separate but equal” is ok

Answer 7

Plessy vs Ferguson

Question 8

Which supreme court case says “separate but equal” is not ok?

Answer 8

Brown vs Board of Educations

Question 9

What’s a transcontinental railroad?

Answer 9

A railroad that connects the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.

Question 10

What were the two purposes of building the railroad?

Answer 10

1. To encourage people to settle in the West

2. Develop the economy

Question 11

What two companies were given the task of building the railroad?

Answer 11

1. Union Pacific

2. Central Pacific

Question 12

Where would each companies start building?

Answer 12

Union Pacific started building in Omaha, Nebraska

Central Pacific as started building in Sacramento, California

Question 13

What role did the Federal government have in building the railroad?

Answer 13

They funded a lot of the costs

Question 14

Who did the Union and Central Pacific hire?

Answer 14

The Union Pacific hired workers f2f Ron various backgrounds.
Central Pacific hired Chinese men.

Question 15

Why where there more railroads in the eastern hskf of the country than in the western half?

Answer 15

It was where all the people settled, the population was large and the east was very developed.

Question 16

What do you think each timezone was name for?

Answer 16

The geographic features and where it was placed on the map

Question 17

Why do tracks run east to west?

Answer 17

All the big states go inbetween.

Question 18

By 1895, how many transcontinental railroads would be built?

Answer 18

5

Question 19

Before railroads, what time system did the communities across America use?

Answer 19

Each community determinted its own time, it is called Solar Time

Question 20

Who set up the timeone we have today?

Answer 20

The railroad companies.

Question 21

What is our current timezone called and what timezone is WIsconsin in?

Answer 21

It is called Standard Time and Wisconsin is in Central time zone.

Question 22

Who occupied the land in the Great Planes that the railroads crossed?

Answer 22

The Native Americans

Question 23

Railroads brought two groups of people who clamed land in the West, name them.

Answer 23

Settlers and Native Americans

Question 24

How did the railroads help the economy.

Answer 24

The railroads helped get lumber, linestock and grain from West to East.

Question 25

What was gold fever?

Answer 25

Gold fever attracted miners, and settlers.

Question 26

In 1859, why did 100,000 people rush to Colorado?

Answer 26

Gold was just discovered in Mountains near Pikes peak.

Question 27

The town that grew up around the mining community , in Mountain Peak is well known as what today?

Answer 27

Denver

Question 28

Define the term “lode”

Answer 28

A lode is a deposit of valuable minerals bured in the rocks and soils.

Question 29

How much gold and silver was produced at the Comstock Lode in Western Nevada between 1895 and 1880.

Answer 29

$300,000,000 of gold and silver was produced.

Question 30

Define the term “bonanza”

Answer 30

Mineral deposit.

Question 31

define the term “boomtown”

Answer 31

A town with a sudden surge of activity.

Question 32

What was Virginia City, Nevada like by 1876 after it experienced a boom.

Answer 32

The population went from 3,000 to 30,000 and the town had an opera house, several theaters and more than 100 saloons.

Question 33

After the initial gold and silver was mined from the surface, large mining companies took over. Why?

Answer 33

They took over because they were the only one with the equipment to mine the precious metals and jems.

Question 34

Name two reasons mining for gold was dangerous.

Answer 34

The dust caused lung problems and deadly cave ins could trap miners hundred of feet below the surface.

Question 35

What was the political effect of mining on Nevada, Colorado and South Dakota?

Answer 35

They all grew so rapidly they gained statehood.