Vocabulary
The process of rebuilding the South and dealing with recently freed slaves
Reconstruction
The laws that applied specifically to black people to limit their freedom
What are the Black Codes?
This amendment ended the institution of slavery
The 13th Amendment
This concept is the belief that America should stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
What is manifest destiny?
The education reformer who argued for TECHNICAL (rather than higher) education for black men after Reconstruction
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Who are Radical Republicans?
This president was impeached by the Radical Republicans in a political move (FIRST AND LAST name!)
Who was Andrew Johnson?
This amendment required equal protection for everyone under the law
The 14th Amendment
Carlisle is an example of schools designed to do this to native children, making them more like Americans
What is assimilation?
W.E.B. duBois founded this organization, in order to help individuals of color succeed
NAACP
What are scalawags?
This man advocated for higher education and immediate black rights
Who is W.E.B. duBois?
This amendment prohibits discrimination based on race or ethnicity
What is the 15th Amendment?
Steam trains/Transcontinental Railroad
This court case resulted in the doctrine of "separate but equal"
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The very first connection across the Midwest - connected west and east coast for the first time
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This organization provided recently-freed slaves with basic education, including reading and writing.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
This law allowed anyone to claim land in the midwest as long as they lived and farmed or ranched on it
What was the Homestead Act?
Little Bighorn
This man was the leader of the Radical Republicans in Congress
Thaddeus Stevens
Individuals from the north who came to buy up southern land and run their governments
Who are carpetbaggers?
This system forced freed slaves to stay on their old plantations, farming and giving most of the crops to their old masters
What was sharecropping?
This law opened up Native American reservations and land for sale
What was the Dawes Act?
This battle was one of the last of the Indian Wars, where hundreds of women and children were killed by US troops
Wounded Knee Battle/Massacre
After the passage of the 15th Amendment, what were the TWO REQUIREMENTS to vote (not including citizenship)
What are male AND over 21?