Post Civil War
Reconstruction Amendments
Westward Expansion
Cowboys, Trains, and Problems
Weird Facts
True or False
100

Who took office after Lincoln was killed?

Andrew Johnson 

100

This amendment ended slavery in the United States

13th 

100

This act gave settlers free land if they farmed it for five years.

The Homestead Act

100

 This animal was essential to Plains Native American life and was nearly wiped out during westward expansion.

American Bison (buffalo)

100

Buffalo Bill Cody once paid the U.S. government $500 to train a herd of buffalo so he could later hunt them in a "buffalo hunting" show

True

200

The Southern Economy depended on this type of labor AFTER the war

Sharecropping 

200

This amendment granted citizenship to all people born in the U.S

14th

200

This was the name for settlers who rushed to claim land in Oklahoma in 1889

Sooners

200

This nickname was given to towns that grew quickly due to mining

Boomtowns 

200

The Pony Express was only in operation for 2-years 

False.

It was replaced by telegraph wires 18 months after if began 

300

This government agency was created to help former enslaved people adjust to freedom

The Freedman's Bureau  

300

This amendment gave Black men the right to vote

15th

300

The U.S. government forced Native Americans onto these areas of land.

Reservations 

300

Cowboys drove cattle to railheads on this most famous route.

Chisolm Trail 

300

Cowboys wore bowler hats 

True 

"Cowboy hats" were made popular by movies and film.

400

Congress passed these laws to limit the rights of African Americans after the Civil War.

Black Codes

400

Southern states used poll taxes and literacy tests to get around this amendment

15th

400

This connected the East and West coasts by train for the first time.

Transcontinental Railroad

400

The belief that Americans had a Divine Right to claim the lands out west 

Manifest Destiny 

400

Some settlers didn’t get to keep the land they "won" under the Homestead Act

True.

If the proved that they could not successfully farm the land in the 5 years, the government could take the land back. 

500

This law divided the South into military districts to enforce Reconstruction

Reconstruction Act of 1867

500

This compromise ended Reconstruction by pulling federal troops out of the South in 1877

Compromise of 1877

500

When Native Americans were forced hundreds of miles from their homes with no provisions to be place in reservations 

The Trail Of Tears

500

This act tried to “Americanize” Native Americans by giving them individual land plots

Dawes Act

500

Women in the Western Territory Wyoming, were given the right to vote before the rest of the country

True. 

Wyoming became the first state to allow women to vote in 1869, believing that women's contributions to frontier life were just as important as men’s.