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The ___________________declared that all people born in the United States, except Native Americans still living as tribes, were citizens of the United States and promised full and equal benefits all laws.
Civil Rights Act of 1866
The __________________declared that Native Americans were citizens of the United States.
Indian Citizenship Act
laws in Southern states that only Black Americans had to obey
black codes
cattle trail from Texas to Abilene, Kansas
Chisolm
herding cattle to the nearest cow town
cattle drive
President who signed bills setting aside land for Yellowstone National Park, creating the National Weather Bureau, and creating the Department of Justice.
Ulysses S. Grant
First president to be impeached.
Andrew Johnson
The _______________________was formed by Congress after the Civil War to provide for freed slaves and any poor Southern family for one year.
Freedmen's Bureau
_____________was a stagecoach company that operated banks, carried mail, and offered travel in the West by stagecoach.
Wells Fargo
The _________________________divided Southern states into five military districts to aid in recovery.
Reconstruction Act of 1867
The ___________________made large areas of land available to Native Americans.
Indian Reorganization Act
this state's land rush allowed settlers to claim Unassigned Lands
Oklahoma
America's first national park
Yellowstone
government department created to ensure fair treatment to newly freed slaves
Freedmen's bureau
President appointed as part of the Compromise of 1877.
Rutherford B. Hayes
former slaves freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
Freedmen
The 14th Amendment to the Constitution declared that freedmen were ______________of the United States.
citizens
The telegraph was invented by _____________.
Samuel Morse
The____________________was an agreement in Congress that brought an end to Reconstruction.
Compromise of 1877
Broke up tribal lands into separate plots for farming or ranching
Dawes Act
rebuilding Southern states after the Civil War
reconstruction
this bureau of government tracks and predicts the weather
the weather bureau
term for lands that were not assigned to Native American tribes
First formerly enslaved Black American U.S. Representative
Joseph Rainey
Republican group wanting government control of recovery of the Southern states from the Civil War
Radicals
The 15th Amendment to the Constitution declared that no man could be kept from __________because of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude"
voting
The transcontinental railroad was finished when Union Pacific and Central Pacific locomotives met at ________________________________.
Promontory Summit, Utah
The __________________allowed settlers to claim land for a low price if they would improve it and live on it for at least five years.
Homestead Act
the practice of separating people by color
segregation
unjust treatment of another person because of a category such as race or skin color
discrimination
First Black American Senator in the United States.
Hiram Rhodes Revels
Republican group wanting each Southern state to make decisions on their own about recovery.
Conservatives
Southern Union supporters who joined carpetbaggers to make a profit.
scalawags
The Battle of ___________ has also been called Custer's Last Stand.
Little Bighorn
large sections of land set aside for Native American tribes
reservations
fights over grazing and water rights
Range Wars
Educator and founder of the Tuskegee Institute
Booker T. Washington
Person who farmed for a landowner to receive part of the crop for profit.
sharecropper
Northern businessmen who often profited from the poor Southern economy during Reconstruction.
carpetbagger
Chief_____________led the Sioux nation against the United States in the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Crazy Horse