Reconstruction
Racist group that used political violence to prevent freed people from voting
Who are the KKK?
The belief of God-given rights to move west and expand territory
What is Manifest Destiny?
The definition of Urbanization
What is the process moving from rural to urban? aka moving from a village to a city
A place where all Indigenous Peoples were forced to settle during westward expansion
What are reservations?
White Southerner who supported Reconstruction
What is a Scalawag?
The amendment that outlaws slavery in the United States of America
What is the 13th Amendment?
The act that singled out Chinese immigrants to the United States for over 60 years
What were the Chinese Exclusion Acts?
The idea that replaced women working at home early during urbanization
What is the factory?
The reason why the American government wanted the Black Hills territory of the Dakotas
What is gold?
Legal right for a court to review a person's imprisonment
What is Habeas Corpus?
This allowed the states to now choose if they wanted slavery or not
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The show that helped create the view of the American Cowboy
What was Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show?
A cause of poverty during urbanization
What are: immigration, homelessness, unemployment...any others?
The greatest victory for the Sioux tribe and all Indigenous Peoples
What is the Victory at Little Big Horn?
Established the following:
36 30 line established
North of line is Free Territory/South is Slave Territory
For every free state admitted, a slave state must be admitted
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The event that caused the Northern states and the US Government to not enforce reconstruction policies
What was the Panic of 1873?
Fear, distrust, or hatred of people from other cultures or countries
What is Xenophobia?
An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit
What is capitalism?
Strategies used to get Indigenous Peoples to assimilate
What are: place children into school, cut rations on the Reservation, ensure tribal Chiefs assimilate, practice Christianity, cut hair, change clothes, etc...
War measure used to confiscate property
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
The governmental action that ended Reconstruction
What is the Compromise of 1877?
All 5 dangers of going west from our handout
What are: Disease, Animals, Gun Accidents, River Crossings, and Crime?
4 effects of urbanization
What are:
High rate of unemployment
High rate of homelessness
Spread of disease
Movement away from agriculture
Child Labor
Dangerous working conditions
All aspects of the Dawes Act (there are 5 points from the movie)
What are:
Division of Sioux land into Reservations
Divide land amongst those living on the Reservation
Excess lands sold to white settlers
Complete the Transcontinental Railroad
Full assimilation of all Indigenous Peoples into American society
The process through which individuals and groups acquire the basic habits, attitudes, and mode of life of an embracing culture
What is assimilation?