Civil War/Reconstruction
To formally withdraw from the union.
What does secede mean?
Nickname given to gold hunters
What are Forty-Niners?
This man built Standard Oil into a giant that controlled most U.S. oil refining.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
He was the president of the Confederates states of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Their population went 60 million to less than 500.
What are the Bison/Buffalo?
This amendment gave African Americans the right to vote
What is the 15th amendment?
This connected the U.S. from eat to west.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
An extreme dislike for foreigners.
What is Nativism?
The first African American elected to the U.S. senate.
Who is Hiram Revels?
Land Native Americans were forced on to.
What are reservations?
Laws restricting the freedom of African Americans in the south.
What are Black Codes?
This belief said Americans were destined to spread across the whole continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
These crowded, poorly built apartment buildings housed many immigrant families in cities.
What are tenements?
He became president after president Lincoln was assassinated.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Farming someone else's land for a share of the crop
Sharecropper
This declared African American free in the confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
How many acres did the Homestead Act give to American citizens?
What is 160 acres?
What is the name of the immigration station located on the west coast?
What is Angel Island?
Captain of industry who created a Banking for big businesses.
Who is JP Morgan?
Southerners used this nickname for Northerners who moved South during Reconstruction.
What are carpetbaggers?
Rutherford B. Hayes became president by this agreement.
What is the compromise of 1877?
This 1890 event in South Dakota, where the U.S. Army killed many Lakota, ended major Plains Indian resistance
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
They offered city services in exchange for political power.
What are political machines?
He became the president that ended Reconstruction.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes ?
Defined as the growth of cities.
What is urbanization?