Vocabulary
to accuse a public official of wrong doing while in office
What is impeach?
a northerner who moved to the South to get a government job after the Civil War
What is a carpetbagger?
Who is Oliver O. Howard?
prevented states from denying black people the right to vote
the role railroads played in settling the West (two)
brought cattle/beef from the west to the east
brought people (Easterners) to the west
a white Southerner who worked with Northerners during Reconstruction
What is a scalawag?
What is segregation?
became president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This source influenced people to support the equality of black and white citizens
What is the Bible?
two types of conflicts that abounded in the West
conflict over fenced land
conflict between ranchers and sheepman
conflict with outlaws who stole cattle
the act of cheating to gain something unlawfully
What is fraud?
when a person takes the law into his own hands or is in agreement with someone taking the law into his own hands, but has no legal authority to do so
What is vigilante justice?
leaders involved in the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Who was General Custer, Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse?
was passed by Congress to establish military control of states that seceded from the Union and to ensure that new governments had racial equality
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
people in the West who built homes and barns out of grass were called this (George Washington Carver did this for a few years.)
What is a sodbuster?
What is government?
laws that Democrats passed during Reconstruction to segregate black people and discriminate against them
What were Jim Crow Laws?
a secret group that arose in the South after the Civil War and used violent methods to prevent black people from exercising their civil rights
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
defended civil rights
What is the 14th Amendment?
Southern States passed these to limit the rights of black Americans
What are Black Codes?
provided food and clothing to feed slaves and poor white Southerners and set up schools for black people
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
immigrants and black people moved west to become this...they were known for branding cattle
What were cowboys?
outlawed slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
Southern "redemption" was when this group won back the control of the government.
Who were the Democrats?