Textbook pages 87-101

Question 1

Casualties at Antietam, September 17, 1862

Answer 1

17,000 wounded; 6000 dead

Question 2

Casualties at the Battle of Gettysburg (July 6 1-3, 1863)

Answer 2

51,000 dead (23,000 Union, 28,000 Confederate)

Question 3

Casualties of the Civil War

Answer 3

Over 600,000

Question 4

Surrender of Robert E. Lee

Answer 4

April 9, 1865; terms discussed.

Question 5

The Civil War surrender; terms

Answer 5

Very generous; Confederate troops were allowed to go back home unopposed and to keep their personal possessions.

Question 6

Surrender of General Joseph E. Johnston

Answer 6

Surrendered to Sherman in North Carolina on April 26, 1865

Question 7

Lincoln assassinated

Answer 7

April 14, 1865 at Ford’s Theater by John Wilkes Booth.

Question 8

Official surrender of Robert E. Lee

Answer 8

April 12th, 1865 at Appomattox Court House, VA. Considered to be the end of the war.

Question 9

“Scalawag”

Answer 9

A Southern white who voted Republic/ worked with the Freedmen’s Bureau

Question 10

“Carpetbaggers”

Answer 10

Northerners who went South to work on Reconstruction.

Question 11

Ratification of 13th Amendment

Answer 11

1865, ended slavery

Question 12

Ratification of 14th Amendment

Answer 12

1868, citizenship of African-Americans

Question 13

Ratification of 15th Amendment

Answer 13

1870, African American’s right to vote

Question 14

Freedmen’s Bureau goals

Answer 14

Help freedmen and poor whites; get blacks to vote and elected to office.

Question 15

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 15

1822-1885. Elected president in 1868.

Question 16

Thomas Nast

Answer 16

1840-1902. German immigrant; satirical artist; exposed a railroad stock scheme.

Question 17

End of reconstruction

Answer 17

1876

Question 18

President elected in 1876

Answer 18

Rutherford B. Hayes

Question 19

Issues against African-Amercians

Answer 19

Few skills; not a lot of readers or writers; no money; no land. Became tenant farmers or sharecroppers

Question 20

May 10, 1869

Answer 20

Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads united.

Question 21

1860-1862

Answer 21

Pony Express

Question 22

Date and place of America’s sentenial

Answer 22

July 4th, 1876 in Philadelphia

Question 23

Pullman

Answer 23

better train cars

Question 24

Wild Bill

Answer 24

Killed by being shot in the back

Question 25

famous Western lawman

Answer 25

Wyott Earp

Question 26

Sandcreek Massacre

Answer 26

1864

Question 27

Thomas Susette La Flesche sued for reservation land that was taken from her.

Answer 27

1879. Inspired Helen Hunt Jackson to write A Century of Dishonor.

Question 28

Gold discovered on sacred Sioux lands.

Answer 28

1874. Led to Battle of Bighorn

Question 29

Battle of Bighorn

Answer 29

Little Bighorn River in Montana; 1876. Every US Calvary was killed.

Question 30

All Native Americans forced to move to plantations

Answer 30

1881

Question 31

Start of Ghost Dance.

Answer 31

1889. Ended in 1890

Question 32

Attack of the grasshoppers

Answer 32

1884

Question 33

Frontier area all used.

Answer 33

1890

Question 34

Joseph Glidden

Answer 34

1874; patented barbed wire

Question 35

Worst blizzard

Answer 35

1886-1887. End of cowboys.

Question 36

Last Land Rushes

Answer 36

April 22, 1889 and 1893

Question 37

Steel plow

Answer 37

1837; could cut through sod invented by John Deere