The 1800s

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1. Ana

   Today is the eighteen hundreds. Land. War. Lincoln. Who gets to be a citizen.

2. Michael

   Questions ninety through ninety-nine. Short century. Big answers.

3. Ana

   What territory did the United States buy from France in eighteen oh three?

4. Michael

   The Louisiana Territory. Or Louisiana.

5. Ana

   Louisiana. Eighteen oh three.

6. Michael

   Name one war the United States fought in the eighteen hundreds. War of eighteen twelve. Mexican-American War. Civil War. Spanish-American War. Do not say World War One. That's the nineteen hundreds. On this show: the Civil War.

7. Ana

   Civil War.

8. Michael

   Name the U.S. war between the North and the South. The Civil War. That's the one they want by name.

9. Ana

   North and South. Civil War.

10. Michael

    Name one important Civil War event. Fort Sumter. Emancipation Proclamation. Gettysburg. Vicksburg. Sherman's March. Surrender at Appomattox. Lincoln was assassinated. One is enough. Gettysburg, or the Emancipation Proclamation.

11. Ana

    Gettysburg.

12. Michael

    Abraham Lincoln is famous for many things. Name one. Freed the slaves. Saved the Union. Led the United States during the Civil War. Sixteenth president. Delivered the Gettysburg Address. On this show: freed the slaves.

13. Ana

    Lincoln freed the slaves.

14. Michael

    What did the Emancipation Proclamation do? Freed the slaves. Freed slaves in the Confederacy. Freed slaves in most Southern states. Say freed the slaves.

15. Ana

    Freed the slaves.

16. Michael

    What U.S. war ended slavery? The Civil War.

17. Ana

    Civil War ended slavery.

18. Michael

    Memory trick: Lincoln, Emancipation, Civil War. Same story.

19. Ana

    What amendment says people born or naturalized in the United States are citizens?

20. Michael

    The fourteenth Amendment. That's the citizenship amendment.

21. Ana

    Fourteenth. Born or naturalized. Citizens.

22. Michael

    When did all men get the right to vote? After the Civil War. During Reconstruction. With the fifteenth Amendment. Or eighteen seventy. Say after the Civil War, or the fifteenth Amendment.

23. Ana

    Fifteenth Amendment. After the Civil War.

24. Michael

    Name one leader of the women's rights movement in the eighteen hundreds. Susan B. Anthony. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Sojourner Truth. Harriet Tubman. Lucretia Mott. Lucy Stone. On this show: Susan B. Anthony.

25. Ana

    Susan B. Anthony.

26. Michael

    Memory trick: Louisiana from France. Civil War in the middle. Fourteenth for citizenship. Fifteenth for men voting. Susan B. Anthony for women's rights.

27. Ana

    Whole century in one breath.

28. Michael

    In eighteen oh three the United States bought Louisiana from France. In the eighteen hundreds the country fought the Civil War, North against South. Gettysburg was one important event. Lincoln freed the slaves. The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves. The Civil War ended slavery. The fourteenth Amendment says people born or naturalized here are citizens. All men got the right to vote after the Civil War, with the fifteenth Amendment. Susan B. Anthony led on women's rights.

29. Ana

    Eighteen hundreds. Land, war, citizenship.

30. Michael

    Say it out loud. Next episode: Recent American History. Official questions are at uscis.gov. This podcast is independent study. We are not affiliated with U.S. C.I.S. I'm Michael.

31. Ana

    I'm Ana. Thanks for listening.

32. Michael

    We'll see you next time.

Questions in this episode

Official USCIS answers for questions 90 to 99 of the 2025 civics test.

• 90.What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?
• 91.Name one war fought by the United States in the 1800s.
• 92.Name the U.S. war between the North and the South.
• 93.The Civil War had many important events. Name one.
• 94.Abraham Lincoln is famous for many things. Name one.
• 95.What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
• 96.What U.S. war ended slavery?
• 97.What amendment says all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are U.S. citizens?
• 98.When did all men get the right to vote?
• 99.Name one leader of the women's rights movement in the 1800s.