U.S. History EOC Review (Ch. 1-3)
Across
- 3. hunted buffalo on the Great Plains
- 5. was the turning point of war; Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address.
- 13. cowboys drove cattle, grazing on the "open range", to railroads
- 14. factors that cause people to leave a place, like ethnic persecution, drought or poverty
- 17. rolling, treeless, grassy plains with little rain but fertile soil
- 19. Florida was valued for its _______ and food supplies; the Battle of Olustee was fought in northern Florida in 1864.
- 22. the imaginary line separating "settled" and "unsettled" areas
- 24. becomes the first African American in congress
- 25. abolitionists wanted to end slavery. Escaped salves like Frederick Douglass spoke out against the horrors of slavery.
- 26. abolished slavery
Down
- 1. new southern state governments with former confederate leaders pass ________, restricting the rights of freedmen
- 2. Popular sovereignty to determine the slavery question in remaining territories of Louisiana Purchase, reopening the slavery issue.
- 4. Lincoln sent supplies to this fort in Charleston Harbor. Confederate forces fired on the fort, starting the Civil War.
- 6. divides the South into military occupation zones
- 7. boom towns sprang up overnight where gold and silver were discovered
- 8. anti-slavery and pro-slavery settlers violently contested control of the Kansas Territory
- 9. California admitted as a free state; the sale of salves banned in Washington D.C.; tough Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 enacted
- 10. uses the land and tools of the landlord in exchange for part of crop
- 11. loss of freedom to move away because of debts to landlord or business owner
- 12. the movement of people from one place to another
- 15. people felt greater loyalty to their section- the North, South, or West- than to the nation as a whole
- 16. tribes forced onto reserved lands, often dry and undesirable
- 18. rents land from landlord
- 20. shock at the mistreatment of Indians identified by Helen Hunt Jackson and other reformers led to this attempt of "Americanize" Indians.
- 21. South Carolina immediately seceded. Six Southern states, forming the Confederacy.
- 23. adapted to the dry conditions of the Great Plains by using barbed wire fences, sod houses, wells for groundwater