Native Americans
What two animals did the Plains Indians use for survival?
Horses and Buffalo
What secret society opposed civil rights particularly centered towards African Americans.
Ku Klux Klan
____________ are communities that grew suddenly when a gold or silver mine opened in the Great Plains.
Boomtowns
What amendment made slavery illegal in the United States?
Thirteenth Amendment
Who was the first African American senator?
Hiram Revels
What two men lead the Lakota-Sioux against the United States?
Crazy Horse
What amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
Fifteenth Amendment
Cowboys herded cattle to the market on these long journeys.
Cattle Drive
What Amendment gave African Americans citizenship?
Fourteenth Amendment
What lieutenant colonel was defeated at the Battle of Little Bighorn?
George Armstrong Custer
What religious movement predicted the arrival of paradise for Native Americans?
Ghost Dance
What are laws that that greatly limited the freedom of African Americans?
Black Codes
The_______________ are a system of messengers on horseback.
Pony Express
What Amendment gave African American men the right to vote?
Fifteenth Amendment
Who was the first president to have charges of impeachment?
Andrew Johnson
What was the first major treaty between the U.S. government and Plains Indians?
Treaty of Fort Laramie
Redeemers introduced laws that enforced segregation in the South. These laws were known as?
Jim Crow Laws
_____________ is a railroad that would cross the United States and connect the East to the West.
______________ is an act that gave government owned land to small farmers.
Homestead Act
What did Native Americans call African American Calvary?
Buffalo Soldiers
_____________ are areas of federal land set aside for Native Americans.
Reservations
This supreme court case stated that segregation was allowed and all races were, "separate-but-equal."
Plessy v. Ferguson
______________ is when the U.S. army killed 150 Sioux Native Americans near Wounded Knee Creek. What massacre was this?
Massacre at Wounded Knee
_______________ is an act that granted more than 17 million acres of federal land to the states.
Morrill Act
Former Union General who became the U.S. President
Ulysses S. Grant