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Reconstruction
The Last Frontier
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Vocabulary
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Define Segregation
Keeping people in seperate groups based on race.
100
Why did the United States want Native Americans to live on reservations?
So Settlers could use the land.
100
Which two immigrant groups did thousands of railroad workers come from?
Chinese and Irish.
100
Reconstruction
Rebuilding.
200
What was the most important work of the Freedmen's Bureau?
Teaching newly freed people to read and write.
200
What did Chief Joseph mean when he said "From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever."
He would never fight United States soldiers again.
200
How many hours a day did many people work in mills and factories in the late 1800s?
10 to 12 hours a day.
200
Reservation
Land set aside by the government for use by Native Americans.
300
Under whose rule did the Reconstruction plan by Congress place Southern states?
The United States Army.
300
To whom did the Homestead Act give land?
Settlers who lived on the land for 5 years.
300
What did most new immigrants to the United States struggle to do?
learn English.
300
Tenements
A poorly built apartment building.
400
In the system of sharecropping. Who owned the land and who worked the land?
The landowner owned the land and the former enslaved people worked the land.
400
Name 5 difficulties homesteaders face on the Great Plains?
Droughts, dust storms, insects eating crops, prairie fires, wild animals, Indians, etc.
400
What railroad linked the Atlantic and Pacific coast? How many companies built this rail line?
Transcontinental Railroad. Union Pacific and Central Pacific.
400
Boom
A time of fast economic or population growth.
500
In the system of sharecropping. How were the former enslaved people that worked the land paid?
They were paid with a share of the crop.
500
In what ways did the children of immigrants help their parents?
As translators of the English language and helped support families by working full-time jobs.
500
Where was Thomas Edison's laboratory? What were some of the inventions that his team worked on there?
New Jersey. Electric lightbulb.
500
Labor Union
A workers group that fights for better working conditions and pay.