Reconstruction
this amendment ended slavery, all forms
13th amendment
What was the name given to the war between the US government and the Natives of the West
Indian Wars
This invention allow for faster cutting of grass and wheat.
Mechanical Reaper
This word is used to describe public land used to feed cows.
Open range
this political action during reconstruction, prevent these people the ability to serve in Congress
Former Confederates
This Amendment granted citizenship to all former slaves, and introduced a process for naturalization.
14th Amendment
Name a Native American leader who fought the US Army
Quanah Parker
Tecumseh
Sitting Bull
Chief Joseph
This farming organization provided knowledge and better prices for tools and supplies
The Grange
This word is used to describe make just enough food for survival and no more.
subsistence farming
This social action by congress ended slavery in all parts of the United States
13th Amendment
This amendment granted all males the right to vote.
sorry ladies, you wont be able to vote till 1910.
15th Amendment
These Black soldiers were feared by the Apache. they were called by this name due to the dark curly hair and fierce fighting skills
Buffalo Soldiers
This steel tool flip the soil over to redistribute mineral need for good crops
Steel plow
this word means to make something faster and cheaper.
efficient
this day is celebrated by former slaves when a union general informed all slaves that they were free and no longer slaves.
Juneteenth
This group tried to keep Black Americans from voting through violence and fear tactics
Klu Klux Klan
At the Medicine creek meeting, where did the US leaders want the Native to live?
Reservations - bad land with no access to sacred lands
This invention used stop cattle from destroying farmer fields. it also ended the cattle trails
Barbed Wire
this word is used to describe the movement of people from one part of a country to another part of the country.
Migration
this type of farmer was made to be indebt by renting land to former slaves and tricking them into predatory (really bad) contracts and paying with a large portion of the crop
Sharecroppers
these laws were made to limit the freedoms of Black Americans
Black Codes
Jim Crow Laws
What happened to natives that choose not to live on the reservations?
they were killed or chased out of the west.
This invention took the place of cattle drives by creating more than 10,000 miles of paths
trains
railroads
this word is used to describe wild horses that were caught and sold to the us army and ranchers.
Mustangs
These northern people came to south to take advantage of the government programs meant to help the former slaves (Freedmen)
Carpetbaggers