Reconstruction #1
Became president after Lincoln's assassination and the first president to be impeached.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
White Southerners that supported Republicans and reconstruction efforts
What are Scalawags?
Abolished slavery in the United States
What was the 13th Amendment?
The driving of the Golden Spike in Utah symbolized this
The idea of the God-given right to settle the west.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This phrase, after a standoff in a Texas fort, became a rallying cry for the annexation of Texas to the United States
What was "Remember the Alamo"?
Freedmen worked fields of smaller plots and a percentage of crop yields went back to the landowner. Freedmen would continue to develop debt to the landowner, ultimately binding the freedman to the landowner.
What is sharecropping?
Northerners that came to the South to support Reconstruction Ideals.
What are Carpetbaggers?
Allowed all male citizens to vote regardless of race, or color, regardless of previous servitude.
What was the 15th amendment?
Tribal nations were relocated to these by the United States Government.
What are reservations?
Nickname for immigrants migrating to California during the gold rush.
Who were the 49ers?
This government act provided opportunity for people to own 160 acres of land in the Great Plains
What is the Homestead Act?
The disastrous campaign trip that Andrew Johnson took to urge states not to ratify the 14th Amendment was called this.
What was the "Swing Around the Circle"?
A government organization that helped newly freed slaves with food, jobs, medical care, and education.
What was the Freedman's Bureau?
Gave citizenship to all people born in the United States, including African Americans.
What was the 14th Amendment?
This congressional act began an active policy of relocating Native Americans onto reservations.
What is the Indian Appropriation Act?
Land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Native Americans mistrusted the U.S. government over this, which happened throughout Westward Expansion.
What are broken treaties?
The 14th Amendment overturned this Supreme Court decision on citizenship of African Americans.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
White-supremacist group, led by former Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, that threaten and intimidated blacks and white sympathizers, especially in terms of voting.
Who was the Klu Klux Klan (KKK)?
Laws that were passed to restrict the rights and freedom of African Americans, including voting opportunities.
What were the Black Codes?
Drought, insect pests, and hard soil were some of the challenges farming this region.
What was the Great Plains?
One word that represents how Texas became a part of the US.
What is annexation?
The route over which settlers traveled west in the 1840s and 1850s; trails branched off from it toward Utah and California.
What was Oregon Trail?
In his impeachment trial, President Andrew Johnson was one vote away in the Senate for this happening to him.
What is removed from office?
This Pennsylvania Representative was considered a leader of the "Radical Republicans".
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?
A deal/agreement between Northern Republican and Southern Democrats. Democrats would support Hayes as president (and win by 1 Electoral Vote) and federal troops would be pulled from the South.
What was the Compromise of 1877?
This important food source for tribes nearly became extinct due to overhunting and government sanctioned hunts.
What are Bison?
Name of the treaty that gave the US the Mexican Cession.
Who was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This president sanction the largest mass execution of people in US history as 4000 spectators watched
Who was President Abraham Lincoln?