Post Civil War
Who took office after Lincoln was killed?
Andrew Johnson
This amendment ended slavery in the United States
13th
This act gave settlers free land if they farmed it for five years.
The Homestead Act
This animal was essential to Plains Native American life and was nearly wiped out during westward expansion.
American Bison (buffalo)
Buffalo Bill Cody once paid the U.S. government $500 to train a herd of buffalo so he could later hunt them in a "buffalo hunting" show
True
The Southern Economy depended on this type of labor AFTER the war
Sharecropping
This amendment granted citizenship to all people born in the U.S
14th
This was the name for settlers who rushed to claim land in Oklahoma in 1889
Sooners
This nickname was given to towns that grew quickly due to mining
Boomtowns
The Pony Express was only in operation for 2-years
False.
It was replaced by telegraph wires 18 months after if began
This government agency was created to help former enslaved people adjust to freedom
The Freedman's Bureau
This amendment gave Black men the right to vote
15th
The U.S. government forced Native Americans onto these areas of land.
Reservations
Cowboys drove cattle to railheads on this most famous route.
Chisolm Trail
Cowboys wore bowler hats
True
"Cowboy hats" were made popular by movies and film.
Congress passed these laws to limit the rights of African Americans after the Civil War.
Black Codes
Southern states used poll taxes and literacy tests to get around this amendment
15th
This connected the East and West coasts by train for the first time.
Transcontinental Railroad
The belief that Americans had a Divine Right to claim the lands out west
Manifest Destiny
Some settlers didn’t get to keep the land they "won" under the Homestead Act
True.
If the proved that they could not successfully farm the land in the 5 years, the government could take the land back.
This law divided the South into military districts to enforce Reconstruction
Reconstruction Act of 1867
This compromise ended Reconstruction by pulling federal troops out of the South in 1877
Compromise of 1877
When Native Americans were forced hundreds of miles from their homes with no provisions to be place in reservations
The Trail Of Tears
This act tried to “Americanize” Native Americans by giving them individual land plots
Dawes Act
Women in the Western Territory Wyoming, were given the right to vote before the rest of the country
True.
Wyoming became the first state to allow women to vote in 1869, believing that women's contributions to frontier life were just as important as men’s.