Lincoln's plan to reconstruct the Union was known as this. It involved an oath of allegiance to the union and the abolition of slavery.
What is the 10% plan?
100
Largely represented by Helen Hunt Jackson's book a Century of Dishonor this approach to the Natives was relatively impractical.
What is preservation?
100
The most famous of western cooperatives.
What is The (National) Grange?
100
People from Oklahoma who cheated to get land.
Who were the Sooners?
100
Suggested that the unique American character had been formed on the furthest edges of America.
What is the Frontier Thesis?
200
This committee of Congressmen took over the task of leading Reconstruction after Johnson demonstrated that he was going to be to lenient on the south.
What is the Joint Committee on Reconstruction?
200
Kind of like a Freedman's Bureau for the Natives. This governmental organization was tasked with feeding and educating the natives as well as administering the reservations.
What is the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
200
This argued that the gold standard was bad for the farmers and as a result the city dwellers. It went so far as to suggest the destruction of farms would destroy cities.
What is the Cross of Gold speech?
200
Abilene, KS for example.
What is a Cow Town?
200
The most important industry in the settlement of the West.
What was the Railroad?
300
This act divided the South into 5 military districts.
What is the (First) Reconstruction Act?
300
The massacre at Wounded Knee was due in large part to the Native's practice of this.
What is Ghost Dance?
300
Declared that the government had the right to set prices in certain private businesses.
What is Munn v. Illinois?
300
The most important tool for the Homesteaders on the Great Plains.
What was the Sodbuster?
300
The event that make Promontory Point Utah outrageously important in US History.
What is the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad?
400
These groups controlled politics in the south during the period of Radical Reconstruction.
Who were the scalawags, carpetbaggers, and black republicans?
400
An attempt at forced assimilation, it gave Indians 160 acres of land to be farmed. Although it seemed generous, many Natives simply sold the land to Whites.
What is the Dawes Act?
400
The type of monetary policy favored by most debtors.
What is inflation?
400
The end stage of most of the western boom towns.
What is a ghost town?
400
Governmental act that drove millions west in search of land.
What is the Homestead Act?
500
The first to drive reconstruction was Abe Lincoln, then Andrew Johnson. After them, the Radical Republicans controlled the process. This was the final group to control it.
Who are the Redeemers?
500
America's most famous Indian Fighter.
Who was Custer?
500
The unenforced law that declared that the US Treasury Department had to buy silver and coin silver coins.
What is the Bland-Allison Act?
500
The product of Henry Comstock's Lode.
What are gold and silver?
500
Black settlers who sought a new start in the West.