What was sharecropping? Did it benefit the poor farmers? Why or why not?
When a landowner allowed a poor farmer to farm their land. It gave a portion of the crops back to the landowner.They stayed in debt and had to keep borrowing money and materials.
100
In 1871 African Americans asked ______________________ for protection from _________________________________.
What is congress and Klu Klux Klan.
100
Was the Great Plains known for having lots of trees and a long rainy season?
Describe the Great Plains.
What is No, the Great Plains, flat and dry and also grassy (not many trees).
200
Who assassinated President Lincoln?
What is John Wilkes Booth.
200
Which amendment forbid states from denying any person "life, liberty or property, without due process of law"
What is the 14th Amendment.
200
Southern states set up ____________________ that were intended to limit the travel, voting, and working rights of newly freed slaves.
What is black codes.
200
The Ku Klux Klan threatened, beat, and even killed African Americans to keep them from voting. Who else did the Ku Klux Klan threaten?
What is anyone who was helping African Americans.
200
Western farmers were able to use the __________________ to make money by shipping cattle and wheat to markets in the _______________.
What is railroad and in the east.
300
Who created new ways to use peanuts?
What is George Washington Carver.
300
Which Amendment granted African American men the right to vote?
What is the 15th Amendment.
300
The war had been a disaster for the south. Why?
The civil war was fought in the south and it destroyed farms, cities, and factories.
300
________________________ and ___________________ were two of the first African American Senators.
What is Hiram Revels and Blanche K. Bruce.
300
The Central Pacific Railroad company hired workers from where?
They paid these workers _____________________ than they paid for other workers and they had these workers perform extremely dangerous jobs.
What is China and less.
400
Who opened the Tuskegee Institute?
What is Booker T. Washington.
400
Name the amendment that ended slavery.
What is the 13th amendment.
400
What was Lincoln’s plans for uniting the country after the Civil War?
What is he wanted the South to join the Union, reconstruction plan, confederate states set up a new government.
400
After winning the right to vote, African Americans began to _____________________________, run for office, and ___________________________.
What is take part in government and become government leaders.
400
The Central Pacific Railroad company hired workers from where?
What is China.
500
Who invented the telegraph?
What is Samuel Morris.
500
What did the 15th Amendment do?
It granted African American men the right to vote.
500
What did the Freedman’s Bureau do to help former slaves?
provided health care, clothes, food, education, reunited families, protection, legal advice and jobs
500
President Rutherford B. Hayes ended the Reconstruction by doing what?
What is he ordered the government soldiers to leave the south.
500
What was the transcontinental railroad’s purpose?
What is to transport people, cattle, crops, textiles, and to travel quickly.