Westward Movement after 1865
What were the physical features and climate of the Great Plains?? (5 things you must know)
Name the 4 states that are in the southwest region of the US.
Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexica, Arizona
What is the number of the amendment that ended slavery??
The 13th Amendment
What was the Freedman's Bureau??
What were reasons for increased westward expansion after the Civil War??
land, technological advances, possible gaining of wealth, adventure, new beginnings for former slaves, immigration of workers for the transcontinental railroad, escape from poverty, segregation and violence.
Barbed wire, steel plows, railroads, windmills
Name the 6 states that are in the Rocky Mountain Region.
Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho
What amendment ended prohibition in the US?
The 21st
What were Black Codes??
These were laws created in the South to limit the economic and physical freedom of former enslaved African Americans.
What was the impact of westward expansion on the Native Americans??
opposition by Native Americans, forced relocation of Native Americans onto Reservations, reduced population from warfare, disease, and loss of buffalo.
What are some adaptations that people had to make to farm the Great Plains?
dry farming, sod houses, beef cattle, wheat farming.
Name the 3 states that are part of the Pacific Region of the US.
California, Oregon, Washington
What amendment gave black men the right to vote?
15th
What did the southern states have to agree to, to be readmitted to the United States??
They had to agree to the 14th Amendment
The Battle of Little Bighorn
What were some important transportation resources of the time, after 1865?
Moving natural resources to the eastern factories (ie. iron ore to steel mills).
Name the two states that are in the Noncontiguous Region of the US.
Alaska, Hawaii
What amendment prohibited the sale, manufacture and transportation of alcohol illegal?
When did Reconstruction end and what was the compromise they made??
It ended in 1877 as a result of a compromise over the outcome of the election of 1876 and troops were removed from the South.
Who was the Lakota, Native American chief that was involved in the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Chief Sitting Bull
What are the manufacturing areas of the US??
Textiles: New England
Hair care and Cosmetics: St. Louis
Automobile: Detroit
Steel: Pittsburg
Meatpacking: Chicago
Name the key cities in the Pacific Region.
San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle
What is the amendment that grants citizenship to all people born in the US and grants them equal protection under the law?
the 14th.
What was the importance of Abraham Lincoln in Reconstruction??
He sought to reconstruct the nation by bringing the southern states back into the Union when 10% of voters accepted the end of slavery and reunion.
He never was able to fully form his plan for reconstruction before he was assassinated.
Who was the Nez Perce Native American chief who tried to avoid the relocation of his Native American Nation??
Chief Joseph