Reconstruction
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments did this.
What is freed all slaves, gave everyone citizenship, and gave everyone the right to vote.
This plan, sharing a name with the longest snake in the world, is the process the North used to constrict the South from outside influences and help.
What is the Anaconda Plan.
This is the term the Americans used to justify their God given right to move westward.
What is Manifest Destiny.
This species was decimated by the westward expansion of Americans upon the Great Plains.
What is the buffalo.
After the war, the South was divided into five of these.
What are Military Districts.
This is one of the main reasons the North won the war.
What is being more industrialized.
This law, or act, created an incentive for Americans to move out west with the reward of cheap, and potentially free land.
What is the Homestead Act.
The way southern landowners kept freed slaves working for them goes by this two word term.
What is debt peonage.
What is Sharecropping.
The Northern and Southern economies were based on this, respectively.
What is Industry and Agriculture.
The term for the movement of people from rural areas to urban areas is this.
What is Urbanization.
William Jennings Bryan, in his speech named 'Cross of Gold' advocated for this monetary policy in the country.
What is bimetalism.
These laws, or Codes, put in place as a way to get around the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, were named after the people they were created against.
What are the Black Codes.
This proclamation by Abraham Lincoln was made to free all slaves in the United States.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation.
This is the term used to describe the adoption, often forced, of Native American tribes towards American culture.
What is Assimilation.
This invention, following the telegraph in the first Industrial Revolution, was one of the most influential inventions in human history
What is the telephone.
This is the result of the Plessy V. Ferguson Supreme Court case.
This is the main reason why the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were often not very impactful.
What is a lack of enforcement.
This law, or act, divided Native American tribal land and gave it back to Native Americans as individual plots of land.
What is the Dawes Act.
This economic framework, often seen as a counter to communism, is based on free markets and no government intervention.
What is capitalism.