LAWS/AMENDMENTS
AMENDMENT THAT GAVE BLACK MALES THE RIGHT TO VOTE
15TH AMENDMENT
WHEN A FARMER USES SOMEONE ELSE'S LAND AND GIVES THE OWNER PART OF THE CROP IN RETURN
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND THE SENATE COLLECTIVELY ARE KNOWN AS
CONGRESS
GAVE NATIVES SMALL PLOTS OF LAND AND DISTRIBUTED THE REST OF NATIVE LAND TO THE WHITE SETTLERS
DAWES ACT OF 1887
FORCED OUT OF HOMELANDS TO LANDS WITHOUT FERTILE SOIL. MADE TO ASSIMILATE AND LOSE TRADITIONAL CUSTOMS, CLOTHING AND LANGUAGES. CHILDREN WERE SENT AWAY TO SCHOOLS
NATIVE PEOPLES
Divided the South into districts, served as acting government. Made the states ratify the 14th Amendment if they wanted to be admitted back to the union
Reconstruction Acts
LINCOLN'S REUNIFICATION PLAN THAT OFFERED AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL ACTS DURING THE WAR IF SOUTHERNS SWORE AN OATH TO THE US AND AGREED SLAVERY WAS ILLEGAL
TEN PERCENT PLAN
ITS PURPOSE WAS TO PROVIDE RELIEF FOR FREED PEOPLE AND POOR PEOPLE BY DISTRIBUTING FOOD, ESTABLISHING SCHOOLS AND PROVIDING LEGAL HELP
FREEDMEN'S BUREAU
COURT CASE THAT ALLOWED SEGREGATION TO BE LEGAL. "SEPARATE BUT EQUAL"
PLESSY VS FERGUSON
HEADED WEST FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES AND TO ESCAPE RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION. LIVED WITH SIMILAR ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS BACKGROUNDS
EUROPEANS
AMENDMENT THAT PROVIDED US CITIZENSHIP TO FORMER SLAVES
14TH AMENDMENT
WHEN PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT RACES, SEXES OR RELIGIONS ARE KEPT APART WHERE THEY WORK, LIVE OR ARE EDUCATED
SEGREGATION
INSULT FOR SOMEONE FROM THE NORTH WHO WENT TO THE SOUTH AFTER THE CIVIL WAR
PROVIDED TRACTS OF 80 ACRES TO RAILROAD COMPANIES TO BUILD THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
PACIFIC RAILWAY ACTS OF 1862
SERVED AS FUR TRADERS, MINERS, COWBOYS, INDIAN FIGHTERS, SCOUTS, WOODSMEN, FARMHANDS, SALOON WORKERS, COOKS AND OUTLAWS
AFRICAN AMERICANS/BLACK PEOPLE
LAWS DETERMINING WHAT FREED BLACK PEOPLE CAN AND CANNOT DO
HELD MAJORITY IN CONGRESS DURING RECONSTRUCTION AND PUSHED FOR CIVIL RIGHTS OF FORMERLY ENSLAVED. PASSED THE 14TH AND 15TH AMENDMENTS
RADICAL REPUBLICANS
VIOLENT SECRET SOCIETY AGAINST CIVIL RIGHTS FOR BLACK PEOPLE. OFTEN KILLED MOSTLY BLACK PEOPLE BUT SOMETIMES RADICAL REPUBLICANS/PUBLIC OFFICIALS.
Divided the South into districts, served as acting government. Made the states ratify the 14th Amendment if they wanted to be admitted back to the union
PROVIDED THE MAJOR PART OF THE WORKFORCE FOR THE CENTRAL PACIFIC PORTION OF THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
ASIAN PEOPLE
AMENDMENT GUARANTEEING DUE PROCESS OF LAW AND EQUAL PROTECTION OF LAWS
14TH AMENDMENT
THE PROCESS OF BECOMING AN ACCEPTED PART OF A COUNTRY OR GROUP. GENERALLY BY BECOMING MORE LIKE THEM
ASSIMILATION
WHITE SOUTHERNERS WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE RECONSTRUCTION GOVERNMENTS; CALLED TRAITORS OF THEIR RACE AND THEIR REGION
SCALAWAGS
PROVIDED LAND GRANTS TO COLLEGES OF AGRICULTURE AND ENGINEERING INCLUDING MIZZOU. SECOND RENDITION OF THE ACT SERVED AS A FOUNDATION OF BLACK COLLEGES
MORRILL ACT
LOST LAND RIGHTS BEFORE CIVIL WAR AND BECAME PERMANENT MIGRANT WORKERS THAT SEEKED SEASONAL EMPLOYMENT IN FARMING, MINING, RANCHING AND RAILROADS
LATINOS