Amendments and Reconstruction
This period was from 1865-1877 and included policies and processes aimed at readmitting Confederate states to the union.
What is Reconstruction?
This vigilante group wanted to destroy the Republican Party, end Reconstruction and support the plantation class.
Who is the KKK?
The year that the Federal Government first negotiated individual treaties with tribes and set up tribal reservations.
What is 1850?
This policy gave the railroads the money needed to build the transcontinental railroad.
What are land grants?
This was used to mark the point were the two railroads met.
What is a golden spike?
This amendment defined citizens as those “born or naturalized in the United States.”
What is the 14th Amendment?
This party supported the harshest Reconstruction plan on the South.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
This General's last stand was at Little Bighorn, where he and his men were ambushed and killed within an hour by Sitting Bull, Gall, and Crazy Horse.
Who is General Custer?
These are the names of the two railroads companies that were competing in the Transcontinental Railroad Race.
Who are Central Pacific and Union Pacific?
Which group suffered the most prejudice of the railroad workers?
Who are Chinese Immigrants?
This amendment forbid states from denying the vote based on “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
What is the 15th Amendment?
Democrats demanded removal of Federal troops from the South in exchange for supporting this presidential candidate for President.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
This policy wanted to "Americanize" Natives Americans by forcing them to give up their beliefs and way of life and become part of the white culture.
What is the assimilation?
This act offered 160 acres in exchange for improving the land after 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
This treaty was signed in 1848 and ceded a vast territory to the United States and recognized the Rio Grande as the southern border of Texas, effectively ending the Mexican-American War and establishing the boundaries of the United States as we know them today.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This amendment made slavery unconstitutional, ending the practice in America.
What is the 13th Amendment?
How many land acquisitions make up the current day USA
8
Conflicts between settlers and Native Americans led to the removal of Native Americans to these?
What are Reservations
Where did the railroads meet and end the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad?
Promontory Point, Utah
What was twisted wire with sharp points every few inches?
What is barbed wire?
Radical Republicans overrode this president's vetos of the Freedmen's Bureau Act and the Civil Rights Act and impeached him.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This party's growing weakness in South helped lead to the end of Reconstruction.
What is the Republican Party?
This animal was essential to Native American life on the plains and was decimated by the building of the railroads and homesteaders?
What is the Buffalo?
The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad made moving west...
Quicker, safer, and more efficient
This was the belief during the late 19th Century that it is destiny to control land from the Atlantic to the Pacific
What is Manifest Destiny?