Civil War
Who was the president of the United States during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
What amendment outlawed slavery in the United States?
13th
what four jobs did people do when moving west?
Ranch, farm, mine, railroad
What was the book called that brought attention to the mistreatment of Native Americans?
A century of Dishonor
Americans were fighting Americans
How did the Wade Davis Bill view the south?
A defeated country.
Where was gold found in the United States?
California, Oregon, the Dakotas
What is a reservation
Who were the two prominent Civil War generals?
Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant
Was Lincoln's 10% Plan lenient or harsh?
Was Johnson's Plan lenient or harsh?
lenient
harsh
Where did people come from to mine gold in Western America?
China, Europe, and Mexico
What was assimilation?
Forcing the Native Americans to lose their culture and replace it with a more white or American culture
Name the two reasons why the Civil War started
Slavery, State's Rights (to own slaves)
Two things the radical republican plan did
South forced to ratify the 14th Amendment, Freedmen's Bureau, divided the south into five zones occupied by Union troops, and banned confederates from voting.
Who are the groups of people that are mainly going to be railroad workers?
Immigrants: Chinese and Irish
Ex-soldiers
Freedmen
Why was the loss of the buffalo population important?
Destroyed Native American way of life, loss of their clothes, food, weapons, tools, shelter, etc...
Why wasn't Abraham Lincoln's plan implemented after the war?
John Wilkes Booth, Andrew Johnson rejects the plan
Two reasons why reconstruction failed
KKK, failure to handle freedmen, failure to create a plan to rebuild the south, prisons
What does Manifest Destiny mean?
the idea that the United States is destined—by God, to expand westward and claim all the resources and land that's there.
Why did some people believe it was okay to steal from and kill Native American communities?
They saw them as animals, uncivilized, less than human