Laws and Acts
declared that no man could be kept from voting because of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude”
15th Amendment
led the Sioux nation in the Battle of Little Bighorn
Chief Crazy Horse
known as Custer’s Last Stand
Battle of Little Bighorn
Where is America’s first national park?
Yellowstone National Park
THEY were hired to build the transcontinental railroad
immigrants
organization formed by Congress after the end of the Civil War designed to help provide for freed slaves and any poor Southern family for one year
Freedmen's Bureau
first Black American to serve in Congress (Senate)
Hiram Rhodes Revels
incident in which over 200 Native Americans were killed by the U.S. Army
Wounded Knee Massacre
Where is the trail for cattle drives from Texas to Abilene, Kansas?
Chisholm Trail
The Homestead Act allowed settlers to claim THIS if they would improve it and live on it for 5 years.
land
law declaring that all people born in the United States, except for Native Americans still living as tribes, were citizens of the United States with full and equal benefits of all laws
Civil Rights Act of 1866
group within the Republican Party that wanted the government to control the recovery of the Southern states from the Civil War
Radicals
agreement in Congress that brought an end to Reconstruction
Compromise of 1877
Where is the central prairie area of the U.S. (also known as the Breadbasket of America)?
Great Plains
transcontinental railroad
congressional bill that divided the Southern states into five military districts to aid in recovery
Reconstruction Act of 1867
first former enslaved Black American to serve in Congress
Joseph Rainey
government department created to ensure fair treatment to newly freed slaves (freedmen)
Department of Justice
Where is a town with a railroad to transport cattle?
cow town
THEY were Northerners who helped rebuild the South
carpetbaggers
law that broke up tribal lands into separate plots and offered them anyone who would take up farming or ranching
Dawes Act
educator and founder of Tuskegee Institute
Booker T. Washington
congressional bill that divided the Southern states into five military districts to aid in recovery
Reconstruction Act of 1867
Where is the place where a Union Pacific locomotive traveling west met a Central Pacific locomotive traveling east, making the first transcontinental railroad?
Promontory Summit, UT
Samuel Morse invented THIS
telegraph