RADICAL RECONSTRUCTION
The ____ was added to the Constitution in 1869 by the Radical Republicans & granted (as well as protected) voting rights to all males despite their race.
15th Amendment
___ is sharing land for farming then paying the landowner rent with a portion of crops.
Sharecropping
After the ____ was invented in the late 17th century, mass production of various goods (like steel) began.
steam engine
Trains & paddleboats caused a ____ revolution & increased migrations of people to this area, as well as the rapid growth of cities.
transportation
Moving from the country to city/town is known as ____.
urbanization
_____ included attacks on Black Leaders, White supporters (scalawags), & northern emigres (carpetbaggers).
White resistance
____ are using a crop as credit to buy goods or tools; must be paid back or debt occurs.
Crop Liens
Two forms of transportation developed from the steam engine: ____ & ____.
trains & paddle boats
____ allowed settlement of farmland in the Midwest by indirectly forcing Native Americans from their lands.
The Louisiana Purchase
After the ___ was invented in the late 1830s, white settlement into the Plains rose slowly until the mid-1840s.
steel plow
The election of 1876 resulted in a tie between ___ & ___.
Rutherford Hayes & Samuel Tilden
Segregated schools inspired debate among Black leaders, while many were opposed to this system, others accepted it in order to gain educational opportunities -- The “____” idea.
"Get education first"
Industrialization created growth in isolated areas because ____ & ____ were needed to fuel the Industrial Revolution.
workers & natural resources
In 1845, the Democratic Review published an article that spurred westward growth by coining the term ____, claiming ”God wants us to go west!”
Manifest Destiny
____ is a government organization established to aid Native Americans with food supplies, medicine, & assistance in exchange for living on reservations.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
Liquor distillers & tax collectors defrauded the U.S. government out of 3 million dollars. Many believed Grant was involved or that he covered up for his friends.
____ provided equal access to transportation, jury service, & public spaces.
The Civil Rights Act of 1875
___ is a tax on imported goods, designed to increase prices forcing consumers to buy American products.
_____ directly caused bison populations to drop to near-extinction levels as hunters cleared the land & killed the buffalo to profit from the fur trade.
The Homestead Act, 1862
In 1864, a U.S. Army battalion attacked Cheyenne women & children while the men were hunting.
By the late 1870s, Union troop enforcement of the South was being reconsidered, largely because of a(n) ____.
Economic depression in 1873
After Reconstruction ended in 1877, anti-Black legislation & social codes began to reemerge in Dixie; these are collectively known as ____.
Jim Crow Laws
International trade restriction, inflation, and railroad speculation caused the ___.
Panic of 1873
6,000 African Americans, known as ____, traveled from the South to Kansas in 1879 for land & freedom from oppression. Within a year the population expanded to over 40,000.
Exodusters
Sandcreek survivors joined forced with the Oglala in 1866 & ambushed an army unit in the _____.
Fetterman Massacre