True/False
The conservatives were a group within the Republican party who wanted government control of Reconstruction
False! Radicals
After the Civil War, the_____ was organized to provide food for freed slaves and any poor southern family for one year.
Freedmen's Bureau
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 declared that all people born in the United States, except Native Americans were _____ of The United States.
Citizens
Northerns who helped rebuild the south
carpetbaggers
The 15th amendment to the constitution said no man could be kept from working because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
false! Voting not working!
A ____ was a person who framed for a landowner to receive part of the crop's profit.
sharecropper
The Reconstruction Act of 1867 divided the _______ states into five military districts to aid in recovery during Reconstruction
Southern
founded Tuskegee Institute
Booker T Washington
Oklahoma National Park was the first National Park in America
False! Yellowstone
America's first black senator was _______
Hiram Rhodes Revels
reconstruction
First former enslaved Black American who served in Congress
Joseph Rainey
General Custer led the Sioux nation in the Battle of Little Bighorn
False! Chief Crazy Horse
After the invention of the telegraph, the ____ was no longer needed
Pony Express
The Homestead act allowed settlers to claim ______ if they would improve it and live on it for at least 5 years
land
Invented the telegraph (hint: think morse code)
Samuel Morse
The first Black American to serve in the US senate was Booker T Washington
False! It was Hiram Rhodes Revels
The ____ was the route Texas cattlemen used to move their cattle towards the cow town of Abilene, Kansas.
Chisholm Trail
The Indian citizenship act made _____ citizens for the United States
Native Americans
hired to build the transcontinental railroad
immigrants