Reconstruction
This act declared all people born in the US were US citizens (excluding native americans)
Civil Rights Act of 1866
Founded Tuskegee Institute
Booker T Washington
large section of land set aside by the government for native american tribes
Indian Reservation
This "express" was no longer needed after the invention of the telegraph
Pony Express
hired to build the railroad
immigrants
Northerners who "helped" rebuild the south
carpetbaggers
First Former Enslaved Black American to serve in Congress
Joseph Rainey
Lead the Sioux nation in the battle of little bighorn
Chief Crazy Horse
Inventor of the Telegraph
Samuel Morse
cow town
Laws in southern states that only black americans had to obey during segregation
Black codes
First Black Senator
Hiram Rhodes Revels
Route TX cattlemen took to move the cattle to Abilene, KS
Chisholm Trail
If you agreed to improve it and live on it for 5 years, this act gave you a lot of land
Homestead Act
Called the Bread Basket of America bc it grew all the grains needed in the country
Great Plains
Dept that was created to ensure fair treatment of Freedmen
The 15th Amendment gave citizens the right to do this regardless of race, color or previous servitude
Vote!
Battle where 200 native americans were killed by the US army
Wounded Knee Massacre
This improved transportation from coast to coast
Transcontinental Railroad
Put these in the correct order...Civil War Ends, Oklahoma Land Rush, Reconstruction of the South
1- civil war ends
2-reconstruction of the south
3-Oklahoma land rush
Organized after the civil war to provide food and shelter for freed slaves and other poor southern families
Freedmen's Bureau
A person farming land for the landowner in exchange for part of the crops profit
sharecropper
This Act made large areas of land available to Native Americans
Indian Reorganization Act
The first National Park in America
Yellowstone
Divided into 5 military disctricts to aid in recovery during the reconstruction
southern states