Vocabulary
A time of fast economic or population growth
What is a boom?
Assassinated at Ford's Theatre.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
_______ _______ is a method that does not allow anyone to know how a person voted.
What is a "secret ballot"?
Laws that limited former slaves rights.
What are "black codes"?
Said these words: "With malice toward none, with charity for all...Let us bind up the nations wounds."
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
A factory where metals, fuels, and other materials are cleaned and made into usable products.
What is a refinery
Assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
________ had to be 21, head of a family, and commit to 5 years for government land.
Who are "homesteaders"?
The end of the Civil War made Confederate money ________.
What is "worthless"?
This amendment abolished slavery.
The time of rebuilding following the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
Who is John Sutter?
_______ _______ aided all needy men, women, and children and was created by Congress in March 1865.
What is "Freedmen's Bureau"?
This farming arrangement rarely helped former slaves to get ahead.
What is "sharecropping"?
Texas holiday celebrated on June 19th as a day of freedom.
What is Juneteenth?
A verdict of not guilty.
What is acquittal?
Native American leader of the Nez Perce that led 800 women, children and men in an attempt to escape to Canada.
Who is Chief Joseph?
______ ______ is known as free grazing land.
What is "open range"?
The South's economy depended on this.
What is "agriculture"?
What is education (or literacy)?
People from the North who moved the South to part in Reconstruction governments.
What is a carpetbagger?
Ineffective President impeached by Congress because of his failure during Reconstruction.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
___________ often kept farmers from reaching the water they needed for the crops and kept ranchers from reaching the water they needed for cattle.
What are "fences" (or barbed wire fences)?
The group of people most affected by the Homestead Act.
Famous "scalawag" that believed the South needed to cooperate with the North and who believed building factories would help Southern economy.
Who is James Longstreet?