7th Grade Social Studies - Interim #5 Study Guide

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  1. 5. The belief in working for the _____ meant working as a group to improve the lives of others (2 words)
  2. 10. Name given to the thousands of Black Americans who took lands in Kansas to farm after the Civil War
  3. 13. A large Civil War battle was fought in this Pennsylvania city in early July 1863
  4. 19. This Minnesota city was the site of the execution of 38 Dakota prisoners of war from the US/Dakota War of 1862
  5. 22. Process of giving recently freed slaves tools and seeds to work on white landowners land and the workers give a share of their harvest to the landowner
  6. 23. The _____ was the name given to the journey ranchers took to bring cattle to a railhead (2 words)
  7. 24. Last name of the assassin who killed Abraham Lincoln
  8. 26. All slaves were freed fully after the Civil War and were then called _____
  9. 28. The _____ Act was a 1862 law giving 160 acres of FREE land to anyone who would farm it for at least 5 years
  10. 30. The _____ was a name given to jobs that involved lots of manual labor and usually had low pay (2 words0
  11. 32. The _____ was a relatively flat land reaching over 3,000 miles across the the US stretching to Canada (2 words)
  12. 34. The _____ Dakota tried to assimilate to American culture in an effort to keep their lands in Minnesota
  13. 35. To _____ someone means to accuse a government official of doing something wrong or improper
  14. 36. The 13th Amendment abolished _____ in the United States
  15. 37. Nickname of Northern businessman who tried to make money in the South after the Civil War
  16. 38. Racist laws imposed by states in the south after the Civil War to keep African Americans segregated from white society (2 words)
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  1. 1. Cash payments made to the Dakota by the US government to buy food and supplies on the reservation were called _____.
  2. 2. The _____ Dakota DID NOT try to assimilate to American culture
  3. 3. The 15th Amendment to the US Constitution gave all Black American MEN the right to _____ in 1870
  4. 4. The first Minnesota farmers were given the nickname of _____ because of the tough topsoil they needed to break up before farming crops
  5. 6. The _____ was said to get rid of the American settlers and bring back the buffalo herds for the Great Plains Native Americans (2 words)
  6. 7. A _____ of wheat is equal to 1.25 cubic feet of farmland
  7. 8. The US bought this future state from Russia in 1867 for 7.2 million dollars
  8. 9. Name of the type of cattle found in Texas in the 1860s
  9. 11. This massacre ended the Indian Wars Period (2 words)
  10. 12. The BIA stood for the Bureau of _____ (2 words)
  11. 14. When a group of cattle all rush somewhere at once it is called a _____
  12. 15. This farming tool was used to break up tough soil for farming and was usually pulled by teams of oxen or horses (2 words)
  13. 16. When a company controls all or most of an industry it is called a _____
  14. 17. An _____ is a place where civilians, prisoners of war, and political prisoners are held
  15. 18. A decision not to punish someone for a crime they have committed is called _____
  16. 20. This massacre started the Indian Wars Period (2 words)
  17. 21. The Emancipation Proclamation said ALL slaves would be freed in the south except the _____ states as of January 31, 1863
  18. 22. Fort _____ was attacked by South Carolina to start the Civil War
  19. 25. A _____ crop is grown to make money
  20. 27. The main cash crop grown in MN in the late 1800s was _____
  21. 29. The right to vote is known as _____
  22. 31. A city with a railroad was called a _____
  23. 33. Type of Civil War warship covered in metal plating
  24. 36. When workers refuse to work until their demands are met they go on _____