Reconstruction
Abraham Lincoln ran for President in 1860 under this new political party.
What is the Republican Party?
This organization, synonymous with fear and violence, began as a prank between a group of former Confederate soldiers.
What is the KKK?
This diverse ethnic group of indigenous peoples in the America's who experienced human rights abuses when explorers discovered the 'New World'.
Who are the Native Americans?
Immigrants, mostly from Europe, came to this popular New York immigration station.
What is Ellis Island?
This shiny metal was discovered in California, prompting this race out west.
What is the Gold Rush?
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolished this in the United States except as a form of punishment in prison.
What is slavery?
Northerners in the South, accused of profiting from the war during Reconstruction, were called by this nickname.
Who are Carpetbaggers?
A mass migration from the American South went this direction to find work in factories.
What is North?
Many immigrants lived in overcrowded, unsanitary living conditions called.
What is tenement housing?
John Muir invited Theodore Roosevelt out west to show him beautiful places in nature that he believed should be protected leading to the creation of what system.
What are the National Parks?
This organization provided assistance to freed people in the South after the Civil War.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
After the Civil War, former slave owners rented farm land for high prices that kept the farmers in debt through this land leasing practice.
What is sharecropping?
Poor immigrants, mostly from Ireland, often worked alongside slaves in the field to pay off the cost of their ticket to the new world, as this type of worker.
What is an indentured servant?
Immigrants from Asia and the Middle East arrived in America at this Northern California location.
What is Angel Island?
What is Mexico?
The 14th Amendment granted this right to formerly enslaved people.
What is citizenship?
After the Freedmen's Bureau left the South, what was the name given to the rules restricting the rights of freed slaves?
What are Black Codes?
This ethnic group was established in the American South to keep indentured servants subservient to their masters as a symbol of their higher status in the system of slavery.
Who are white people?
What group of people migrated away from the American South and were willing to work for less money than the immigrant population?
Who are African Americans/Blacks?
This is the term used to describe America expanding from sea to shining sea from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The 15th Amendment granted African American men the right to?
What is to vote?
In Plessy v Ferguson, the Supreme Court stated that 'segregation' was legal as long as equal facilities were provided, giving the decision this nickname based on a popular vaudeville character who performed in blackface.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Before California, Utah, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona were part of America, this ethnic group lived on the lands.
Who are Mexicans?
This group of immigrants who worked on the railroads faced discrimination by limiting the number of people who could enter America and denying them the rights of citizens.
Who are the Chinese?
America purchased land from Russia to purchase this territory outside of the continental U.S. that will become a state.
What is Alaska?