Wild West
Where cattle were rounded up and herded to in a cattle drive
After the Civil War, what was organized to provide food for freed slaves and any poor Southern family for one year?
Freedmen's Bureau
What are the large sections of land set aside by the government for Native Americans tribes called?
Indian reservations
What was the first national park in America?
Yellowstone National Park
What were the people who were hired to build the transcontinental railroad?
immigrants
What were Northerners who helped rebuild the South called?
carpetbaggers
Who led the Sioux nation in the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Chief Crazy Horse
The Dawes Act broke up tribal lands for anyone who would take up what?
farming
The Civil Right Act of 1866 declared all people born in the United States, except Native Americans, were what?
citizens
What was no longer needed after the invention of the telegraph?
The Pony Express
What were the laws in Southern states that only Black Americans had to obey during segregation called?
Black Codes
What states did the Reconstruction Act of 1867 divide into five military districts to aid in recovery during Reconstruction?
The southern states
What was a person who farmed for a landowner to receive part of the crop’s profit called?
sharecropper
What was created to ensure the fair treatment of freedom?
The Department of Justice
What was it called when over 200 Native American people were killed by the United States Army?
The Wounded Knee Massacre
What improved transportation from coast to coast?
transcontinental railroad
Who was America’s first Black Senator?
Hiram Rhodes Revels
What was the group within the Republican party who wanted government control of Reconstruction called?
Radicals
What was called the Breadbasket of America?
Great Plains
The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution said no man could be kept from what because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude?
voting
What Act made large areas of land available to Native Americans?
The Indian Reorganization Act
Who invented the telegraph?
Samuel Morse
Who was the first former enslaved Black American who served in Congress?
Joseph Rainey
What did the Compromise of 1877 bring an end to?
Reconstruction
What was the route that Texas cattlemen used to move their cattle toward the cowtown of Abilene, Kansas called?
The Indian Citizenship Act made who citizens of the United States?
Native Americans
What did the Homestead Act allow settlers to claim, as long as they improve it and live on it for at least five years?
to claim land
Who founded Tuskegee Institute?
Booker T. Washington
Number the events in order, beginning with what happened first:
____Reconstruction of the South
____American Civil War ends
____Oklahoma Land Rush
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