Politics
This Reconstruction amendment abolished slavery throughout the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This labor system left many freedpeople farming land owned by others in exchange for a portion of the crop, often trapping them in debt.
What is sharecropping?
This 1862 law offered 160 acres of federal land to any settler who would live on and farm it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
Name one 'pull' factor — something that drew settlers toward the West.
Free land (Homestead Act), gold and silver strikes, railroad jobs, or the promise of a fresh start.
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to all persons born in the U.S., including formerly enslaved people.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Southern legislatures passed these laws right after the Civil War to restrict the freedom, movement, and labor of Black Americans.
What are Black Codes?
This belief held that it was America's destiny, given by God, to expand across the entire continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Name one 'push' factor — something that drove settlers to leave the East or other countries in the first place.
Overcrowding, poverty, lack of farmland, religious or political persecution, or the destruction of the Civil War.
This amendment stated that the right to vote could not be denied based on race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This term means the right to vote, and it was a central demand of Reconstruction-era reformers.
What is suffrage?
This term describes a town that sprang up and grew rapidly around a resource like gold, silver, or a new railroad line, then often just as quickly declined.
What is a boomtown?
Why do Boomtowns occur?
Because of the discovery of gold and silver
This group of elected officials pushed for a strict Reconstruction policy that protected the rights of freedpeople and punished the former Confederacy.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
This term describes the killing of Black Americans by mobs, often without trial, used as a tool of racial terror and intimidation.
What is lynching?
In 1864, U.S. soldiers attacked a peaceful camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho people in Colorado Territory, killing mostly women, children, and the elderly.
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
What was the goal of assimilation?
To teach Native American how to act like and practice American/white culture
Created in 1865, this federal agency provided freedpeople with food, housing, medical care, education, and help negotiating labor contracts.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Explain how Southern states used BOTH laws and violence together to restrict the rights of Black Americans after Reconstruction ended.
Southern states passed Black Codes legally limit voting, labor, and movement, while groups used lynching and intimidation to enforce these limits and silence resistance.
This term describes government policies that pressured Native Americans to give up their own languages, religions, and customs in favor of white American culture.
What does it mean to assimilate (assimilation)?
Why did we see the creation of Black codes in the south?
In order to allow Southern state to maintain whites as the controllers of politics and winners in the economy