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