Vocabulary
the time period immediately following the Civil War that focused on rebuilding the South
Reconstruction
the 16th President of the U.S. who governed during Southern succession, the Civil War; he signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed the slaves
Abraham Lincoln
This was the type of weapon used to murder President Lincoln.
gun
a 19th century belief that the U.S. was divinely ordained to expand its borders across the North American continent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Manifest Destiny
a governmental agency established to help formerly enslaved people transition to freedom
Freedman's Bureau
an American stage actor who was responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
This amendment guaranteed voting rights to all American citizens.
15th Amendment
President Lincoln and his wife were watching a popular comedy play at this theatre in Washington, D.C. when he was shot.
This was the name given to the 2,000+ mile wagon route that connected the Missouri River to valleys in the western territory.
Oregon Trail
Northerners who moved to the South during the Reconstruction to capitalize on financial opportunities
Andrew Johnson
This amendment granted citizenship to all those born in the United States.
14th Amendment
After the shooting, the President was taken to this house, located across the street from the theatre, where he received medical care.
The two sections of the transcontinental railroad met at Promontory Summit in this state on May 10, 1869.
Utah
sharecropping
commanding general of the Union army, who later became the 18th President of the U.S.
Ulysses S. Grant
an 1862 law that granted 160 acres of Western farmland to citizens who agreed to live and work on the land for a period of at least five years
Homestead Act
This was the title of the play President Lincoln and his wife were watching at the time of the assassination.
Our American Cousin
excessive loyalty to the interests of one's own region of a country, rather than to the country as a whole
Sectionalism
a group of politicians in Congress who advocated for the end of slavery, and then for stronger protections for former slaves
Radical Republicans
the 19th President of the U.S. who oversaw the end of the Reconstruction era
Rutherford B. Hayes
state and local statues that legalized racial segregation in the south; the name comes from a character in a song
Jim Crow laws
"Thus always to tyrants."
These were the TWO companies responsible for building the eastern and western sections of the transcontinental railroad.
Union Pacific Railroad and Central Pacific Railroad