U.S. and Native Americans
These were lands that Indian populations were designated to live on but they had been following the buffalo up until this point
what was the American Reservation System
This speech unified the nation and portrayed the struggle of slavery as fulfilling democratic ideals.
What was the Gettysburg address?
This hate group portrayed the message that white people were superior to black people and lynched them
Who was the Klu Klux Klan?
This freed all enslaved people in the Confederacy but didn't end it in border states.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
this reunited families seperated by slavery, arranged welfare, and educated
what was the freedmen's bureau
This targeted former slaves and poor white farmers. Rich land owners would loan farm supplies and seeds in exchange for harvest and then would manipulate it so that these people continued to stay in debt,
What was share cropping?
An enslaved man from Missouri was taken to Illinois and Wisconsin where slavery was illegal. He sued his owner for freedom but the SCOTUS ruled that slaves were property and not citizens, therefore they couldn't sue.
What was Dred Scott v Sanford?
This essay by Frederick Jackson Turner argued that the closing of the frontier was concerning.
What was the Significance of the American Frontier?
This law required railroad rates to be reasonable and established federal agency.
What was the Interstate Commerce Act?
granted migrants free land if they farmed and settled the land but little farms were quickly gobbled up by bigger farms
what was the homestead act
Government granted land to railroad companies to build transcontinental the railroad.
What was the Pacific Railroad Act?
These were restrictions against black people immediately after the Civil War?
What were black codes?
Prices on manufactured goods were high and there were railroad problems. Farmers, who relied on this, couldn't afford it anymore, and organized this movement to resist. Then laws regulating railroad rates were then passed.
What was the granger movement?
The federal government encouraged the building of this with land grants.
What was the Transcontinental Railroad?
what was the dawes act
This was a resistance of the reservation by natives against the U.S. U.S. lost and made more treaties and restrictions on natives.
What was the Souix war?
This compromise pushed for a stronger Fugitive Slave Act while California was admitted as a free state.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
The election race of Hayes v Tilden. Republicans took the House but all Republican troops had to be removed from the south, ending reconstruction.
What was the compromise of 1877?
This Supreme Court case stated "Separate but equal" was constitutional.
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
us army was trying to disarm lokota indians. a ghost dance was performed by an old man and a gun went off. 200 died and brought indian resistance to an end
what was the wounded knee battle
These laws segregated every facet of society.
What were the Jim Crow laws?
This person was an editor of a black southern newspaper that editorialized against lynching and Jim crow laws. She received death threats and fled north to continue writing. She also was a muckraker against the oil companies
Who was Ida B Wells?
This was a controversial figure that said black people didn't need equality but a self-suffiecient economy. He had done this before but it was deemed impractical by the masses.
Who was Booker T Washington?
Large numbers of southern blacks moved to midwestern and eastern industrial cities beginning with WWI and continuing into the 1920s
What was the Great Migration?
this was a process of steel making. steel was made faster, with better quality, and in a greater quantity
what was the bessemer process