Reconstruction
Era during US History after the civil war when the nation was rebuilt
Reconstruction
Which other civil rights movement is closely tied to the women's rights movement
Abolition Movement or African Americans Civil Rights Movement
Moving westward and settling more land on the NA continent - policy supported by the US gov’t
Westward Expansion
the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country
Immigration
President of the United States during the Civil War
Lincoln
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States
13th Amendment
Women’s movement to fight for the right to vote
Women's Suffrage
Belief that it was the destiny of the United States to spread from sea to shining sea
Manifest Destiny
the act of leaving one's own country to settle permanently in another
Emigration
Political Party of Abraham Lincoln that took a moderate approach to Reconstruction
Republican Party
Republicans who were a faction during the civil war and through reconstruction, fought for equality among races & harsher punishment for states that left the union
Radical Republicans
Woman who fought for the rights of Women & suffrage and was arrested for trying to vote during a election in New York
Susan B. Anthony
Passed by congress in Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indian
Dawes Act
a policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants
Nativism
-Vice President of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United states following Lincoln's assassination
-Famous for being sympathetic to re-entering the South back to the US
Andrew Johnson
What amendment extended voting rights to Black Males
15th Amendment
Act of breaking the law on purpose, generally when you feel it is unjust
Civil Disobedience
This act gave a rail road acess to public lands (government land) free of charge and allowed the rail road to remove Native Americans from land they desired?
Pacific Railway Act
Act of US Congress that prohibited chinese immigrants
Chinese Exclusion Act
Hate group that organized after the Civil War to protest the freedom of blacks
Ku Klux Klan
Which amendment extended the rights of citizenship, due process and the equal protection of laws
14th Amendment
Which amendments did Susan B. Anthony and her lawyer Henry Selden argue gave women the right to vote?
14th Amendment - Citizenship
15th Amendment - Voting Rights
Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862, the Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land.
Homestead Act
To become one with a new culture, abandoning your own
Assimilation
a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.
Carpetbagger