Reconstruction
American Indians
Westward Expansion
Important Places
Important Names
100

What war did reconstruction follow?

The Civil War

100

Southwestern American Indian tribe that opposed frontier advance

Apache

100

These boys raised cattle, they are a popular fixture in any western

Cowboys

100

This state is where the cattle drive began

Texas

100

The President who freed the slaves

Abraham Lincoln

200

This amendment ended slavery

13th Amendment

200

Northwestern Tribe that opposed frontier advance

Sioux

200

The Gold Rush occured in this state

California

200

This region is where reconstruction took place

The South

200

Apache Native American leader who resisted Frontier Advance and US Government Control

Geronimo

300

This ended Reconstruction in the South

Comprimise of 1876

300

Colonel George Custer and his calvary detachment were "annihilated" at this battle

The Battle of Little Bighorn

300

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This act provided land to western settlers to build homes

The Homestead Act of 1862

300

Native Americans were moved off their land and onto these places

Reservations

300

This act reversed native american policy, allowing the division of land to each head of a family

Dawes Act

400

These laws restricted rights of freed black slaves after reconstruction

Jim Crow Laws/Black Codes

400

A religious movement practiced by native americans that prophesied an extinction of white people and a return of the buffalo

Ghost Dance Movement

400

This invention helped farmers fence in land, ending the cattle drives

Barbed Wire

400
in 1865, this river generally followed the frontier line

the mississippi

400

Author who dramatized the plight of native americans with "A century of dishonor" (1881)

Helen Hunt Jackson

500

Northerners who took advantage of the disorganized situation in the south (scammers)

Carpetbaggers

500
Infamous massacre of a Northern Sioux Reservation that ended in the death of nearly 300 sioux men, women, and children

Wounded Knee Massacre

500

This point in Utah connected the railroad from east to west

promontory point

500
This state is where the wounded knee massacre occured

South Dakota

500

This native american leader defeated the US government at the battle of little bighorn

Crazy Horse/Sitting Bull

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