Political
What were the laws in Southern states that only Black Americans had to obey?
Black codes
Who founded Tuskegee Institute?
Booker T. Washington
The Homestead Act allowed settlers to claim ? if they improve it and live on it for at least 5 years
land
Who was a person who farmed for a landowner to receive part of the crop's profit?
Sharecropper
What was the first national park in America?
Yellowstone
What were the large sections of land set aside for Native American tribes?
Indian reservations
The 15th Amendment to the Constitution said that no man could be kept from ? because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
Voting
Who invented the telegraph?
Samuel Morse
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 declared that all people born in the United States, except Native Americans were ? of the United States
citizens
Northerners who helped rebuild the South
carpetbaggers
After the invention of the telegraph, what was no longer needed?
The Pony Express
The Indian Citizenship Act made ? citizens of the United States
Native Americans
After the Civil War, what was organized to provide food for freed slaves and any poor Southern family for one year?
Freedmen's Bureau
Who led the Sioux nation in the Battle of Bighorn?
Chief Crazy Horse
The Reconstruction Act of 1867 divided which states into 5 military districts to aid in recovery during Reconstruction?
Southern
Where were cattle rounded to in a cattle drive?
Cow town
What improved transportation from coast to coast?
transcontinental railroad
The Indian ? Act made large areas of land available to Native Americans
Reorganization
What Department was created to ensure the fair treatment of freedmen?
Department of Justice
Who was America's first Black Senator?
Hiram Rhodes Revels
The Compromise of 1877 brought an end to what?
Reconstruction
Who was hired to build the transcontinental railroad?
immigrants
What was the route Texas cattlemen used to move their cattle toward the cow town of Abilene, Kansas?
Chisholm Trail
Where were over 200 Native American people killed by the United States Army?
What was a group within the Republican party who wanted government control of Reconstruction?
Radicals
Who was the first former enslaved Black American who served in Congress?
Joseph Rainey
farming
What was called the "breadbasket of America"?
The Great Plains