This Reconstruction plan required 10% of the residents of a southern state to swear loyalty to the Union.
What is Lincoln's / Ten-Percent Plan for Reconstruction.
100
A mode of transportation that opened up the West.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad
100
Plessy's first name.
What is Homer.
100
This President was in office at the time of the creation of the Freedman's Bureau in March of 1865.
Who is Abraham Lincoln.
100
Reconstruction
What is a time of rebuilding after the Civil War.
200
A system of dividing up a plantation into smaller farms, to be farmed by people who then shared the profit with the plantation owner.
What is sharecropping
200
This Act, in 1862, encouraged settlers to claim land in the newly opened West.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862.
200
Plessy's "crime".
What is sitting in the "whites only" section of a railroad car, and refusing to move.
200
This President, who succeeded Lincoln, was opposed to the Freedman's Bureau.
Who was Andrew Johnson.
200
Reservation
What is an area of land set aside for occupation by Native Americans.
300
This President, who barely missed being assassinated, was in charge during most of Reconstruction.
Who was Andrew Johnson.
300
A battle between General Custer's regiment and the Lakota Indians.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn.
300
The judge who presided over the trial.
Who was Ferguson.
300
Food, housing, medical aid, education and legal assistance.
What are necessities that the Freedman's Bureau provided to Freedmen and poor whites after the Civil War.
300
A formal agreement between nations.
What is treaty.
400
This group in Congress were successful in derailing Johnson's Presidential Reconstruction, and instead established Military Districts to enforce Reconstruction.
Who are the Radical Republicans.
400
Living on the land for five years, and building a house.
What are two requirements of the Homestead Act of 1862.
400
Plessy vs. Ferguson slogan
What is "Separate but equal."
400
The redistribution of Confederate lands through the Freedman's Bureau.
What is Forty Acres and a Mule.
400
Laws that were designed to limit the rights of the Freedmen.
What were Black Codes.
500
These laws were passed in Southern states to reduce the impact of the 14th Amendment.
What are the Black Codes.
500
This major source of food, clothing and tools was nearly hunted to extinction during Westward Expansion.
What are buffalo.
500
13th and 14th Amendments
What were the two Amendments that Plessy's lawyer cited in Plessy's defense.
500
According to the political cartoon, being freed and subjected to terrorism of such groups as the White League and the Ku Klux Klan is...