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APUSH Quiz Show

True or False

Question: Ghost dances were performed by Englishmen in hopes to regain the life that was once theirs.

Answer: False. The Native Americans performed ghost dances.

Question: Horses and buffalo were extremely important to the Plains Nations Indians.

Answer: True.

Question: The Freedman's Bureau was established in 1865 by Congress to help former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War
Answer: True.

Question: The Battle of Gettysburg gave the union control of the Mississippi river.

Answer: False, it was the Battle of Vicksburg.

Question: During the Civil War, the Confederates were those fighting in the North, while the Unionist were those fighting from the South.

Answer: False,

Confederates=South

Union=North

What Happened

Question: What happened to Senator Charles Sumner in 1856 on the floor of the U.S. Senate?

Answer: He was beaten with a cane.

Question: The bloodiest one-day battle during the Civil War was?

Answer: The Battle of Gettysburg

Question: What happened during John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry?

Answer: It was an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery.

Question: What two scandals happened during the Grant administration and explain one?

Answer: Black Friday- two people's efforts to corner the Gold Market on the New York Gold Exchange.

Whiskey Ring- Diversion of tax revenues in a conspiracy among government agents, politicians, whiskey distillers, and distributors.

diversion of tax revenues in a conspiracy among government agents, politicians, whiskey distillers, and distributors.

Source: Boundless. “Scandals.” Boundless U.S. History. Boundless, 14 Nov. 2014. Retrieved 11 Mar. 2015 from https://www.boundless.com/u-s-history/textbooks/boundless-u-s-history-textbook/reconstruction-1865-1877-19/the-grant-presidency-142/scandals-752-2465/

two speculators' efforts to corner the gold market on the New York Gold Exchange.

Source: Boundless. “Scandals.” Boundless U.S. History. Boundless, 14 Nov. 2014. Retrieved 11 Mar. 2015 from https://www.boundless.com/u-s-history/textbooks/boundless-u-s-history-textbook/reconstruction-1865-1877-19/the-grant-presidency-142/scandals-752-246

Question: What happened at the Dred Scott supreme court case?

Answer: Supreme Court ruled that slaves are not citizens.

Amendments, Bills, and Acts

Question: The 13th Amendment-

Answer: abolished slavery

Question: Wade-Davis Bill

Answer: Reconstruction of the South

Question: The 15th Amendment-

Answer: Gave Blacks suffrage

Question: Tenure of Office Act-

Answer: Restricted the power of the President.

Question: The 14th Amendment-

Answer: Gave equal protection

Important

Question: The mood of the South in 1861 was...?

Answer: Tense

Defensive

Question: The black codes-

Answer: Placed restrictions of free black Americans.

Question: The term "Reconstruction" refers to...?

Answer: the work to remake the South and the Union

Question: The political party that was known for its anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic philosophy.

Answer: The Know-Nothing party.

Question: How many soldiers were killed in the Civil War?

Answer: 620,000

Accomplishments

Question: Who invented barbed-wire.

Answer: Joseph Glidden

Question: Who was largely responsible for developing the trail drive?

Answer: Joseph G. McCoy

Question: Who was the largest landowner in the West?

Answer: The federal government

Question: What was the greatest Native American victory during the Indian Wars?

Answer: Great Sioux War of 1876

Question: The Carlisle Indian School was started with intention to...?

Answer: Civilize the Indians