Reconstruction
What was the freedmen's response to reconstruction?
They built churches, and schools. Tried to better themselves economically
13th amendment
This law was passed to speed up the "Americanization" of Native Americans
Dawes Act
a black southerner who migrated to the plains states in the 1870s to claim land for farming
exoduster
Why was the bessemer process so significant?
made steel cheaper, easier to make and more durable
where did people who are from "old immigration" settle in the United States?
Midwest/Plains
Who were carpetbaggers?
White northerners who moved south during reconstruction
This amendment granted citizenship to all natural born Americans.
14th amendment
Name a problem of living on the reservation
unable to hunt for food or raise adequate crops in the poor soil
An 1862 law that offered free western land for settlement
What was the dynamo?
Name a problem "New Immigrants" faced?
poverty, language, jobs, living conditions
A white southerner who supported radical reconstruction
scalawag
This amendment gave black men the right to vote
15th amendment
What two leaders fought against each other in the Battle of Little Big Horn
George Armstrong Custer and Chief Sitting Bull
Abilene, Kansas
The inventor of the telegraph
Samuel Morse
what political party is associated with Nativism
The Know-Nothing party
laws passed by southern states after the Civil War to stop the movement of freedmen and return them to plantation labor.
Black Codes
Who was the Native warrior who fought for Chief Sitting Bull
Crazy Horse
The Illinois livestock shipper who thought of driving the cattle to the railheads.
Joseph McCoy
What was the Morrill Act?
Created land grant schools to study Agriculture and Mechanics
What are rings of settlement? Who settled in each?
poor, middle, wealthy
What supreme court decision in 1896 was made regarding segregation?
Plessy v. Ferguson
This plan essentially disenfranchised black votes, by implementing literacy laws and poll taxes, in order to get the southern democrats back in office.
The Mississippi Plan
the policy of concentration was replaced with a policy of what
Policy of Reservations
process where you blast rock from the mountainside and then crush it to separate the gold
quartz mining
What is an installment plan?
the ability to pay for an item or service over time
The two newspaper owners most associated with Yellow Journalism
Pulitzer and Hearst