Western Railroad
What did the Pacific Railway Act do?
Provided financial aid to Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroad companies to build a transcontinental railroad.
What did the Homestead Act do?
Opened up land for farmers to travel west to farm
Holy man, Sioux leader who defeated Custer, played himself years later in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
Sitting Bull
What controversial punishment took place at the end of the Minnesota Dakota Uprising in 1862?
Mass execution of 38 Dakota men
What was the amendment that ended slavery
13th Amendment
What ethnicity were most of the laborers who built the Central Pacific railroad (Missouri to Utah)
Irish
What was a pull factor bringing people to the west?
Homestead Act, Political Freedom, Economic Opportunities, Gold Rushes, Transcontinental Railroad
Most famous leader of the Apache
Geronimo
Who won the Battle of Little Big Horn?
The Sioux
What was the Amendment that prohibits federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude"
15th Amendment
What ethnicity worked for the Union Pacific Railroad company?
Chinese
What was the name of the group of African Americans who moved to Kansas to take advantage of the Homestead Act?
Exodusters
President during the early part of reconstruction; fought Congress and impeached.
Andrew Johnson
What was the attack on a Cheyene and Arapaho that was lead by John Chivington and resulted in 250 Native deaths, mostly women and children.
Sand Creek Massacre
What Amendment created birth right citizenship and guaranteed "equal protection before the law"?
14th Amendment
How many Bison were there in 1800 ?
30-60 Million
How many acres of land did the Homestead Act guarantee for farmers?
160 acres
President who tried to make Reconstruction succeed. He used Federal troops to stop the KKK.
Ulysses Grant
What do we call the relocation of Navajo people to the Bosque Redondo Reservation during the Civil War?
The Long Walk
What was the Federal Agency created to help the Freedmen with education and financial assistance?
The Freedmen's Bureau
How many Bison were there in 1885?
<1000
What did you have to do to keep the free land?
Build a farm/improve it within five years.
Secretary of State in 1867, he arranged the purchase of Alaska.
William Seward
What is the nickname for the Battle of Little Big Horn
Custer’s Last Stand
What was the 1875 law that prohibited discrimination in public accomadation (hotels, restaurants, trains)
Civil Rights Act.