US Government
This is the Supreme Law of the land.
What is the Constitution?
This is the period of rebuilding the South after the War.
What is Reconstruction?
Important animal for the Lakota and went almost extinct.
What are the Bison?
The amount of land given in the Homestead Act.
What is 160 Acers?
Added to the Constitution after ratification, as some believe it did not go far enough in protecting rights.
What is a Bill of Rights?
This branch makes the laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
These people rented the land of the former plantation.
What is a tenant farmer?
Leaders of the Lakota at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
Who are Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse?
This was the first stop for Immigrants coming through the Atlantic Ocean.
What is Ellis Island?
This is the 15th amendment.
What is eliminating race requirement for voting?
This branch enforces the laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
These people worked the the land of the former plantation and received a portion of the crop as compensation
What is a sharecropper?
Native Americans were forced to do this into American culture.
What is Assimilation?
Majority of Immigrants at this time come from this region.
What is Southern and Eastern Europe?
The thirteen amendment ended slavery, except in cases of this.
What is incarceration?
This branch reviews the law.
What is Judicial Branch?
The Compromise of 1877 ended this.
What is reconstruction?
Sitting Bull was killed here, along with hundreds of other Lakota men women, and children.
What is Wounded Knee?
The idea that God has chosen Americans to settle west.
What is Manifest Destiny?
According to the 14th amendment, in order to be a citizen considered a citizen you must meet one of these two guidelines.
What is born in the United States or naturalized?
These bodies make up the Legislative Branch.
What is the Senate and House of Representatives?
The Compromise of 1877 made this guy president.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
A U.S. law that broke up communal tribal lands into individual plots (allotments) to force Native Americans to adopt private land ownership.
What is the Dawes Act?
Last Two States added in the Lower 48.
What are Arizona and New Mexico?
The third amendment.
What is quartering soldiers?