USH Unit 1

Question 1

Scott v Sanford

Answer 1

Supreme Court case, Dred Scott sues for his freedom and loses

Question 1

John Brown

Answer 1

Abolitionist that seized an arsenal in Harpers Ferry to begin a rebellion against slaveholders

Question 2

Ulysses S Grant

Answer 2

Union general that fought in the West and later becomes the U.S. president in 1868

Question 3

Robert E Lee

Answer 3

Confederate general that attacked McClellan’s forces

Question 4

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 4

President in 1860, passed the Emancipation Proclamation, assassinated days after end of Civil War

Question 5

Andrew Johnson

Answer 5

Tennessee democrat, vice president to Lincoln, assumed presidency after Lincoln assassination

Question 6

Rutherford B Hayes

Answer 6

Republican candidate of 1876 election, promised to pull out federal troops in south if Republican party wins

Question 7

George Custer

Answer 7

Union officer and commander, killed in conflict with native people, lost his entire regiment

Question 8

Sitting Bull

Answer 8

Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against US government policies

Question 9

Carpetbaggers

Answer 9

name given to Northerners who moved South and supported Republicans

Question 10

Scalawags

Answer 10

name given to Southerners who supported Republicans and reconstruction of south

Question 11

Military Reconstruction Act

Answer 11

Divided former Confederacy into five military districts

Question 12

Vigilance Committees

Answer 12

Groups of ordinary people who organize to find criminals and bring them to justice

Question 13

Hydraulic Mining

Answer 13

Method of mining by which water is sprayed at a very high pressure, exposing minerals under rocks, dirt, and gravel

Question 14

Open Range

Answer 14

Vast area of grassland that the federal government owned

Question 15

Haciendas

Answer 15

Huge ranches

Question 16

Barrios

Answer 16

Spanish neighborhoods

Question 17

Las Gorras Blancas

Answer 17

Spanish people that raided white ranches in protest to land rights

Question 18

Great Plains

Answer 18

Region of prairie west of Mississippi River and east of Rocky Mountains

Question 19

Homestead Act

Answer 19

Piece of US public land acquired by living on and cultivating it

Question 20

Dry Farming

Answer 20

A way of farming dry land in which the seed is planted deep in the ground where there is moisture

Question 21

Sodbusters

Answer 21

A name given to Great Plains farmers

Question 22

Bonanza farms

Answer 22

A large, highly profitable wheat farm

Question 23

Morrill Land Grant Act

Answer 23

Made it possible for states to establish public colleges funded by the development or sale of associated federal land grants

Question 24

Oklahoma Land Rush

Answer 24

Thousands rushed to claim large territories opened by the government

Question 25

Annuity

Answer 25

Money paid by contract at regular intervals

Question 26

Assimilate

Answer 26

To absorb a group into the culture of another population

Question 27

Allotment

Answer 27

A plot of land assigned to an individual or a family for a specified use

Question 28

Dawes Act

Answer 28

Altered the reservation system by diving land into allotments for farming or ranching to native people

Question 29

Dakota Sioux Uprising

Answer 29

Four Dakota killed five white settlers, the result was that many Sioux were taken prisoner and the largest public execution occurred in Mankato, MN

Question 30

Sand Creek Massacre

Answer 30

Cheyenne people were blindsided while waiting to negotiate a peace deal, ~150 natives dead

Question 31

Battle of Little Bighorn

Answer 31

Native victory against the US army led by George Custer

Question 32

Battle of Wounded Knee

Answer 32

Native weapon misfire leads to 200 native deaths and zero white deaths

Question 33

Red Cloud’s War

Answer 33

Resisted white settlement in Cheyenne territory, 80 US soldiers ambushed and killed

Question 34

13th Amendment

Answer 34

Banned slavery in the United States (1865)

Question 35

14th Amendment

Answer 35

Expanded federal power over the states, extended civil rights through its equal protection clause (1868)

Question 36

15th Amendment

Answer 36

Prohibited the federal government and each state from denying a citizen’s right to vote

Question 37

North Advantages

Answer 37

Economic Might
Population
Industries
Infrastructure

Question 38

South Advantages

Answer 38

Better officers
Defensive war
Saw themselves as revolutionaries

Question 39

North Disadvantages

Answer 39

Poor generals
Unknown terrain

Question 40

South Disadvantages

Answer 40

Outnumbered troops
Economic collapse
Transportation problems