TERMS
To accuse a public official of wrongdoing while in office
What is impeach?
A secret group arose in the South after the Civil War and used violent methods to prevent black people from exercising their civil rights
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Explain how the westward expansion brought opportunity to some people and injustices to to others.
What is the immigrants made a new life in the West through hard work. Native Americans suffered much injustice as they were pushed off their land.
What laws did Southern states pass that limited the rights of black Americans?
What are Black Codes?
What is the Five Civilized Tribes?
When a person takes the law into his own hands or is in agreement with someone taking the law into his own hands but has no legal authority to do so
What is vigilante justice?
Immigrants and black people became _____ who branded cows
What is a cowboy?
The act of cheating to gain something unlawfully
What is fraud?
What amendment outlawed slavery?
What is the 13th amendment?
Who is Oliver Howard?
A white southerner who worked with Northerners during Reconstruction
What is a scalawag?
Conflict abounded in the West between ranchers and ______
Who are sheepmen?
What amendment defended civil rights?
What is the 14th amendment?
What prevented states from denying black people the right to vote? (amendment)
What is the 15th Amendment?
Americans called the Great Plains the ____
What is "the Great American Desert"?
A Northerner who moved to the South to get a government job after the Civil War
What is a carpetbagger?
The vice president of Abraham Lincoln when he died
Who is Andrew Johnson?
The railroad played a large role in the settling of the West by bringing _____ west.
Who are Easterners?
What provided food and clothing to freed slaves and poor white Southerners and set up schools for black people?
What did God ordain to promote good and restrain evil?
What is government?
To separate people from the rest of society because of differences such as skin color or religion
What is segregate?
Who is George Custer, Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse?
What was passed by Congress to establish military control of states that seceded from the Union and to ensure that new governments had racial equality?
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
What laws did Democrats pass during Reconstruction to segregate black people?
What is Jim Crow Laws?
Democrats viewed what group as the party of carpetbaggers, blacks, and scalawags
Who are the Rupublicans?