Vocab
This was the movement through which women earned the right to vote in America.
What is suffrage?
This man created one of the most prominent cattle drive trails.
Who was Jesse Chisolm?
This is a holiday celebrating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the United States.
What is Juneteenth?
These were the two sides of the conflict called the Civil War.
What were the Union and the Confederacy?
Native Americans used these for meat, clothing, shelter, and religious ceremonies.
What were buffalo?
These were laws created to segregate white people and black people in America.
What were Jim Crow Laws?
This President led the Union through the Civil War and signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This was a declaration by President Abraham Lincoln that freed slaves in the Confederate states during the Civil War.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
He was a Kiowa war chief and leader, known for his strategic raids against white settlements and the U.S. military.
Who was Satanta?
This term means to withdraw formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.
What is secede?
These are farmers who don't own the land on which they farm and who pay a percentage of their crop yield to the landowner.
What are tenant farmers?
This President was a Union General in the Civil War and led America through reconstruction developing strategies for peace between Anglo, Native, and Black Americans.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
This was a violent attack by a group of Kiowa and Comanche Native Americans on a wagon train belonging to a contractor named Henry Warren.
What was the Warren Wagon Train Raid?
This President led the U.S. through the U.S. Mexican War.
Who was James Polk?
This was the idea that the United States was destined to expand across North America.
What was Manifest Destiny?
The practice of raising cattle for the purpose of selling them.
What is ranching?
This was a secret organization of white men that used violence and terror against African Americans.
Who were the Klu Klux Klan?
This was a series of agreements between the United States government and several Plains Indian tribes, where the tribes agreed to relocate to reservations in Indian Territory in exchange for peace and protection from white settlers.
What was the Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek?
These were northerners in the South working for a Reconstruction government.
Who were carpetbaggers?
This is the process of one country or region taking control of another, usually by force.
What is annexation?
The way cattle were transported from the ranch to the market before railroads.
What were cattle drives?
This legendary law enforcement agency in Texas was originally established in 1835 to protect settlers in Texas.
Who were the Texas Rangers?
This was the period after the Civil War when the United States attempted to reunite the country and integrate formerly enslaved people
What was Reconstruction?
These were white Southerners who supported Reconstruction.
Who were Scalawags?
This is a crop that a farmer grows specifically to sell on the market for profit, rather than consuming it themselves or using it for livestock feed.
What is a cash crop?