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$100 Question from Antebellum

A system in which the residentsvote to decide an issue

$100 Answer from Antebellum

What is popular sovereignty?

$200 Question from Antebellum

A system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to Canada or to safe areas

$200 Answer from Antebellum

What is the Underground Railroad?

$300 Question from Antebellum

A law enacted as part of the Compromise of 1850, designed toensure that escaped slaves are returned

$300 Answer from Antebellum

What is the Fugitive Slave Act?

$400 Question from Antebellum

The formal withdrawal of a state from the Union

$400 Answer from Antebellum

What is secession?

$500 Question from Antebellum

President Lincoln’s primarygoal when he was elected President in 1860

$500 Answer from Antebellum

What is preserving the Union?

$100 Question from Civil War

A three part strategy by which theUnion proposed to defeat the Confederacy during the Civil War

$100 Answer from Civil War

What is the Anaconda Plan?

$200 Question from Civil War

An executive order issued by Lincoln freeing the slaves in all regions behind Confederate lines

$200 Answer from Civil War

What is the Emancipation Proclamation?

$300 Question from Civil War

The most immediate result of Abraham Lincoln’s election of the presidency in 1860

$300 Answer from Civil War

What is several Southern Statesseceding from the Union?

$400 Question from Civil War

Reasons for Southern States to secede from the Union

$400 Answer from Civil War

What are states rights, having the decision of whether to keepslavery or not, and thought thatLincoln was going to abolishslavery?

$500 Question from Civil War

The institution of slavery wasFormally abolished in the United States by this amendment

$500 Answer from Civil War

What is the 13th Amendment?

$100 Question from Reconstruction

All persons born in the US (including former slaves) werecitizens of the country and guaranteed equal protection

$100 Answer from Reconstruction

What is the 14th Amendment?

$200 Question from Reconstruction

The period of rebuilding thatfollowed the Civil War

$200 Answer from Reconstruction

What is Reconstruction?

$300 Question from Reconstruction

Allowed Hayes to become President and ended Reconstruction

$300 Answer from Reconstruction

What is the Compromise of 1877?

$400 Question from Reconstruction

Prohibits the denial of voting rightsto people because of their race or color or because of previousservitude

$400 Answer from Reconstruction

What is the 15th Amendment?

$500 Question from Reconstruction

Discriminatory laws passed Throughout the post Civil War South which severely limited freedmen

$500 Answer from Reconstruction

What are Black Codes?

$100 Question from Reconstruction

The passage of Jim Crow laws in theSouth limited the effectiveness of these amendments

$100 Answer from Reconstruction

What are the 14th & 15th Amendments?

$200 Question from Reconstruction

Ten years following the Civil War,a large number of former slavesearned a living by doing this

$200 Answer from Reconstruction

What is sharecropping?

$300 Question from Reconstruction

The name of President Lincoln’sReconstruction plan

$300 Answer from Reconstruction

What is the 10% Plan?

$400 Question from Reconstruction

Congressmen who advocated fullCitizenship rights for AfricanAmericans along with a harsh Reconstruction policy toward the South

$400 Answer from Reconstruction

Who are the Radical Republicans?

$500 Question from Reconstruction

President Johnson was impeached for this

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What is the firing of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton?

$100 Question from Gilded Age

Term coined by Mark Twain to describe the façade of prosperity

$100 Answer from Gilded Age

What is the Gilded Age?

$200 Question from Gilded Age

This person was the political bossof New York City’s Tammany Hall

$200 Answer from Gilded Age

Who is William Marcy Tweed(Boss Tweed)?

$300 Question from Gilded Age

This term best defines a person who used ruthless/cutthroat business tactics to make millions

$300 Answer from Gilded Age

What is a robber baron?

$400 Question from Gilded Age

The illegal use of political Influence for personal gain

$400 Answer from Gilded Age

What is graft?

$500 Question from Gilded Age

Interstate Commerce Act and theSherman Antitrust Act wereattempts by Congress to…

$500 Answer from Gilded Age

What is regulate the activitiesof big business?