Civil War
This side had more resources and ultimately won the war.
The North
This event prevented Lincoln from carrying out his Reconstruction Plan.
His assassination
Gold
The Battle of Little Big Horn is also known as his "last stand"
Custer
Another (less flattering) name for Captains of Industry
Robber Barons
People identifying with their region (North v South)
Sectionalism
These amendments abolished slavery, ensured citizenship and voting rights to freed slaves.
13th, 14th and 15th Amendments
This was completed at Promontory Point, Utah in 1869.
The Transcontinental Railroad
This important and sacred animal was hunted almost to extinction.
Buffalo
The Florida Railroad magnate
Henry Flagler
The North's plan to "strangle" the South
The Anaconda Plan
This group wanted the South punished severely.
Radical Republicans
This invention made communication more efficient in the West.
The Telegraph
This system moved Native Americans onto specific areas of land.
Reservation
Survival of the fittest applied to business
Social Darwinism
This allowed all citizens to arrest suspected runaway slaves.
Plessy v. Ferguson made this legal
Segregation
The idea that America had the divine right to spread from sea to shining sea
Manifest Destiny
This Act attempted to force assimilation to mainstream culture.
Dawes
These formed to try and make working conditions better for the laborers
Labor Unions
This effect of the Civil War found former slaves working farms for their former masters.
Sharecropping
Life was very difficult for freed slaves in the South because of these laws (not Jim Crow yet).
Black Codes
This allowed settlers to acquire 160 acres if they "fit the bill"
The Homestead Act
This was the last attempt by the Native Americans to rid the west of white settlers.
The Ghost Dance Movement
This type of economy allows free markets to operate without government interference.
Laissez-faire Capitalism