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- 1. This eventual state was purchased from Russia for 7.2 million dollars in 1867 and most taxpayers thought the lands was useless
- 4. Negative nickname given to Northerners who tried to profit off of the South after the Civil War ended
- 5. Name given to the thousands of Black Americans who settled in lands in Kansas to farm after the Civil War
- 8. When a group of cattle all rush in the same direction at once it is called a _____
- 10. A city with a railroad was called a _____
- 11. Fort _____ was attacked by South Carolina to start the Civil War
- 13. The _____ was the name given to the journey ranchers and cowboys took to bring cattle to a railhead (2 words)
- 15. Name of the type of cattle found in Texas in the 1860s
- 16. The _____ was performed by Native Americans on reservations in 1890 with the hopes of all White settlers being sent back to the east
- 17. Last name of the assassin of Abraham Lincoln
- 18. This battle that was fought in Pennsylvania in 1863 was called the "High Water Mark" of the CSA and the South lost momentum in the war once it concluded
- 20. The giant herds of _____ were sacred to Great Plains Native Americans and nothing was wasted from one that was hunted
- 24. The _____ was widely used to break up the tough soil of the Great Plains to pave the way for farms (2 words)
- 26. This type of fencing helped keep animals in or out of areas and marked boundaries for farms out west (2 words)
- 27. Name given to racist laws meant to limit freedoms and opportunities to African Americans in the South after the Civil War ended (2 words)
- 29. The _____ Act of 1862 said that any settler who paid a 10 dollar filing fee and worked the land for 5 years would be given 160 acres by the US government to help settle the West
- 30. The _____ Period was an era of open fighting between Great Plains Native Americans and the US military for control of the lands of the West (2 words)
- 31. A decision for a government to not punish someone for a crime they have committed is called _____
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- 2. Name given to a person who wanted to see slavery completely abolished leading up to the Civil War
- 3. The 15th Amendment to the Constitution gave all Black American MEN the right to _____ in 1870.
- 4. A _____ crop is a crop grown specifically to make money
- 6. The _____ was a relatively flat land reaching over 3,000 miles across the US and stretching to Canada (2 words)
- 7. A _____ Railroad is a railroad that connects one side of a continent to the other
- 9. To _____ someone means to accuse a government official of doing something wrong or improper
- 12. The _____was given by Abraham Lincoln in November 1863 to talk about the sacrifices of the Civil War and why the North needed to keep going with it (2 words)
- 14. Type of Civil War warship with a wooden spine and covered in metal plating
- 19. All slaves were freed fully after the Civil War ended and were then called _____
- 21. The 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolished _____ in the United States
- 22. The Bureau of _____ was responsible for trying to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream American culture (2 words)
- 23. The _____ Railroad was a network of "stations" throughout the South that helped escaped slaves get to Northern territory before the start of the Civil War
- 24. _____ was a system of keeping African Americans poor after the Civil War by paying them a share of crops instead of money on Southern plantations
- 25. The 54th _____ regiment was the first all African American regiment in the Norther army during the Civil War
- 28. The _____ Proclamation said that all slaves would be freed in the CSA if those states didn't rejoin the Union by the end of January 1863