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• Organization originally formed after the Civil War to harass “carpetbaggers”, but which quickly came to be the driving force behind the violent suppression of black of black rights across the South

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•The Ku Klux Klan

Question 1 - 20

•Literacy Tests•Poll Taxes•Grandfather Clauses

Answer 1 – 20

•Jim Crow Laws

Question 1 - 30

• Slave who sued for his freedom in the US Supreme Court

• Court ruled that he, and all other slaves, were not citizens and therefore could not sue; the Court also ruled that since all slaves were property, they could not be taken away from their owners without due process

Answer 1 – 30

•Dred Scott

Question 1 - 40

• Passed in 1882, renewed in 1892 & 1902, repealed in 1942• Banned Chinese immigration for

10 years• Chinese already here could not

become citizens

Answer 1 – 40

•Chinese Exclusion Act

Question 1 - 50

• Ordered all remaining Native Americans east of the Mississippi to relocate to the Indian Territory (Oklahoma); endorsed by Pres. Andrew Jackson

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•Indian Removal Act

Question 2 - 10

• The Raven• The Tell-Tale Heart• The Fall of the House of

Usher

Answer 2 – 10

•Edgar Allan Poe

Question 2 - 20

•Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 2 – 20

•Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 2 - 30

•A Century of Dishonor

Answer 2 – 30

•Helen Hunt Jackson

Question 2 - 40

•How the Other Half Lives

Answer 2 – 40

•Jacob Riis

Question 2 - 50

•Leaves of Grass

Answer 2 – 50

•Walt Whitman

Question 3 - 10

•John Deere

Answer 3 – 10

•Steel Plow

Question 3 - 20

•Eli Whitney

Answer 3 – 20

•Cotton Gin

Question 3 - 30

•Samuel F. B. Morse

Answer 3 – 30

•Telegraph

Question 3 - 40

•Cyrus McCormick

Answer 3 – 40

•Mechanical Reaper

Question 3 - 50

•Joseph Glidden

Answer 3 – 50

•Barbed Wire

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• Newspaper stories which exaggerate the facts and offer bold, sometimes misleading headlines in order to sell more newspapers

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•Yellow Journalism

Question 4 - 20

•Document which, once signed by factory workers, legally prevented them from joining labor unions

Answer 4 – 20

•Yellow Dog Contract

Question 4 - 30

• Laws passed across the South in the months following the end of the Civil War, which attempted to limit the rights of the newly freed slaves and keep them in a position of social segregation

Answer 4 – 30

•Black Codes

Question 4 - 40

•President Theodore Roosevelt’s “Big Stick”

Answer 4 – 40

•The Great White Fleet

Question 4 - 50

• 1795• Turned over most of Ohio and what is today

the sites of Chicago and Detroit to US• US agreed to pay $20,000 and respect the

boundary between US and Indian territory• American settlers ignored the agreement

Answer 4 – 50

•Treaty of Greenville

Question 5 - 10

•Advocate for mental health reform

Answer 5 – 10

•Dorothea Dix

Question 5 - 20

•Gave hundreds of speeches calling for giving women the right to vote• First woman to appear on

a US coin

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•Susan B. Anthony

Question 5 - 30

• First Lady to our second president• Appealed to her husband “do not

forget the ladies” and urged him to support giving women the right to own property and to vote

Answer 5 – 30

•Abigail Adams

Question 5 - 40

•Founded Hull House in Chicago, Illinois•Promoted the idea of the Social Gospel

Answer 5 – 40

•Jane Addams

Question 5 - 50

•Escaped slave•The most famous “conductor” on the Underground Railroad

Answer 5 – 50

•Harriet Tubman