Legislation
This Amendment Banned Slavery in the US.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This organization was established to help newly freed slaves after the Civil War.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This method of transportation extended across the country beginning in 1869.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
What are reservations?
He was President of the United States during and immediately after the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This Amendment defines citizenship and grants ALL citizens equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Abraham Lincoln allowed states to return to the Union as long as this amount of voters pledged allegiance.
What is 10%?
This was invented to help keep cattle in and predators or thieves out.
What is barbed wire?
This term refers to adjusting to a new culture or custom.
What is assimilation?
He was elected president after the Compromise of 1877.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
This Amendment gives all MEN the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This bill required 50% of Southern voters to pledge their allegiance to the Union before their state could rejoin.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
Due to lack of lumber, houses in the Great Plains were often made out of this material.
What is sod?
What is the Dawes Act?
This President was impeached for his actions during reconstruction.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
These laws were designated to restrict the rights of African Americans in the South.
What are Jim Crow Laws/Black Codes?
This law exempted (excused) southerners from literacy tests if their grandfather could vote.
What is a Grandfather Clause?
This method of farming involves digging seeds deep into the ground to grow crops such as wheat.
What is Dry Farming?
This battle saw the defeat of the Union Army against the Sioux and Cheyenne tribes.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
This Confederate General urged Southerners to reconcile with Northerners after the Civil War.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Voting rights of African Americans were restricted by southern governments forcing them to pass this prior to voting.
What is a Literacy Test?
This was the name given to northerners who went south to take advantage of southerners.
What are Carpetbaggers?
These items used wind to generate energy to pump water from the ground for various uses.
What are windmills?
This event saw the murder of 150 Native American men, women, and children.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
This harmful minstrel character was the namesake of many laws passed in the South to restrict the rights of African Americans.
Who is Jim Crow?