The south needed these two resources in order for it to experience serious economic development.
What is labor and money?
100
The first ten amendments to the constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
100
This act passed by Congress in 1887 replaced the reservation system with an allotment system. Each Indian family was granted 160 acres of farmland and the land could not be sold/transferred for 25 years.
What is the Dawes Act?
100
A network of farmers' organizations that worked for political and economic reforms in the late 1800s.
What is the Farmers Alliance?
100
This was a railroad that spanned from East to West.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
200
This part of the country's money backed many textile factories, cigar and lumber production, and coal, iron, and steel processing plants in many southern states.
What is the North?
200
At the battle of Wounded Knee Indians started doing this specific dance in hopes that it would banish white settlers and restore the buffalo to the Plains.
What is the Ghost Dance?
200
a vast area of grassland on which livestock roamed and grazed.
What is the open range?
200
This is one of the ways in which Congress supported construction of the railroads. It involved providing _________ in the form of loans.
What is money?
300
During the late 1800s the south's farming became more diversified with an increase in these three crops.
What are grain, tobacco, and fruit crops?
300
This famous Native American was a famed fighter who led the Sioux Indians in the Battle of Little Big Horn.
Who is Sitting Bull?
300
specific areas set aside by the government for the Indians' use.
What is reservations?
300
This is one of the ways that Congress supported construction of the transcontinental railroad. It involves giving builders wide stretches of land that alternate on each side of the track route.
What is a land grant?
400
In order to keep railroad construction costs down the south used this specific type of labor.
What is prison labor?
400
A leading abolitionist who published America's first antislavery newspaper.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
400
Due to the many battles that occurred between Native Americans and American settlers this government appointed commission concluded that lasting peace would only come if Native Americans settled on farms and adapted to the civilization of the whites.
What is the U.S. Indian Peace Commission?
400
a self appointed law enforcer. In the west they were responsible for maintaining law and order in new settlements as well as punishing law breakers.
What is a vigilante?
400
This Government Act offered U.S. citizens farm plots of 160 acres as long as they were willing to live on the land for 5 years, dig a well, and build a road.
What is the Homestead Act?
500
In 1883 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the ability to use public accommodations was a ___________ as opposed to a national issue.
What is local issue?
500
This famous Indian Chief tried to lead a group of refugees 1300 miles to Canada but was stopped right before they hit the border. He surrendered and him and his people were moved to a reservation in Oklahoma.
Who is Chief Joseph?
500
This Massacre occurred in 1864 when a band of Colorado militia opened fire on many men, women and children of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians.
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
500
This Act guaranteed black patrons the right to ride trains and use public facilities such as hotels.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1875?
500
The term used for when a cowboy has to round up his cattle and transport their animals to the railroads that would take them East.