Jim Crow
What was the system of state and local laws meant to stop African Americans from exercising their rights in the South?
Jim Crow
What was the plan to rebuild the South after the Civil War known as?
Reconstruction
What are official changes to the Constitution?
Amendments
What was the period during which people moved from eastern cities to the frontier known as?
Westward Expansion
Who inhabited the lands in the west before Westward Expansion?
Native Americans
What is the legally required separation of races?
Segregation
What constitutional changes were made during reconstruction?
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
What does the 13th Amendment do?
Outlaws slavery except as a punishment for committing a crime
What law did Congress pass to encourage people to move west with the promise of free land?
Homestead Act
Why did the US break treaties with the Native Americans like the Treaty of Fort Laramie?
To gain access to resources in the area
What were the major groups that used violence to keep African Americans from exercising their rights?
KKK and White League
Which group used their power to punish the South because they felt that the Union was being too lenient towards the South?
Radical Republicans
What does the 15th Amendment do?
Gives all men, regardless of their race, the right to vote
What was the group of African Americans that moved west known as?
Exodusters
What happened to native children after the tribes were forced onto reservations?
They were taken away to boarding schools to be assimilated
What were the policies used to keep African Americans from voting?
Poll tax and Literacy Test
How did sharecropping represent a failure of reconstruction?
Sharecropping was many African Americans' only option for work due to the failure of the government to provide them resources or jobs, so many of them ended up working the same jobs they did as slaves and still not getting paid.
What does the 15th Amendment do?
Clarifies that all people who meet the qualifications of citizenship are citizens regardless of their race, that all states have to abide by federal laws and the Constitution, and that all states have to apply all laws equally to all citizens
The following are all ______ for people moving west:
Crowding in cities, lack of jobs, poor sanitation, rising crime rates, greater government oversight, Jim Crow Laws, Lack of freedom for women
Push Factors
Which 2 chiefs lead the Lakota Sioux to victory over Custer?
Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse
What court case established the "separate but equal" doctrine?
Plessy v Ferguson
What was Abraham Lincoln's plan to only require a small portion of Southerners swear allegiance to the US in order to readmit the southern states to the Union?
10% Plan
How many amendments were included in the first draft of the Bill of Rights?
12
Who wrote the Frontier Thesis?
Fredrick Turner
What law forced Native Americans to break up their lands and sell them off to settlers?
Dawes Act