Convict Leasing
What was convict leasing?
What is a system that people in the late 1800's used to get prisoners to work for them?
What is another name that cowboys are called?
What is a vaquero?
What was presidential reconstruction?
Lincoln's plan to allow former Confederate states to rejoin the Union.
What was the main cause of the American Civil War?
Lincoln thought that slavery was tearing the Union apart, so to decide if slavery would stay or go, he decided the a war would settle the problem.
Why were Black Codes made?
To control and limit African Americans.
Why did so many African Americans die while working?
They were working day and night, even on hot days, meaning they died from heatstroke.
What was a job that cowboys were supposed to do?
What is tending to livestock?
What was radical reconstruction?
The Radical Republican's way of punishing the South. The rise of power for African Americans.
What were the two groups that fought in the American Civil War?
The Confederacy and the Union.
What were the three Black Codes?
African Americans could not be up past a set curfew.
They could not insult Anglo Americans.
They could not own any firearms.
Why did they end convict leasing?
Too many prisoners were dying while working for someone.
What did cowboys do for entertainment?
The sang, played instruments, and they wrote poetry.
What did the 13th Amendment do?
It abolished slavery.
What was the first battle of the American Civil War?
Fort Sumter
Why did Radical Republicans oppose Black Codes?
They realized that they resembled Slave Codes too much.
Why did cowboys brand their livestock?
To keep track of their livestock and make sure people don't take it.
What was the purpose of the 14th amendment?
The 14th Amendment gave citizenship to everyone who was born in the U.S.A.
What was the bloodiest, one-day battle of the American Civil War?
Battle of Antietam.
What were rodeos based off of?
Every-day tasks that cowboys would do.
What did the 15th Amendment do?
It gave voting rights to African Americans.
Who was the man who went North to fight in the Battle of Gettysburg?
Robert E. Lee