Vocabulary
Money giving from the government to companies to provide goods or services
What are subsidies
This was one of the most important resources for Native Americans, which saw its population decrease
What are buffalo
Amendment that abolishes slavery
What is the 13th Amendment
Andrew Johnson proposed that the Confederates and their states have at least 10% of the population commit loyalty to the Union
False. The 10% Plan was President Lincoln.
Government used immigrants, such as Chinese immigrants and Irish immigrants to build this
What is the transcontinental railroad
This act helped to break up Native American reservations and help adapt Natives to white culture
Changing Natives to fit into "white culture"
What is assimilation
What were ways whites tried to restrict freed slaves from voting?
What are poll taxes and literacy test
True
This group left their country in the 1840s-1850s in hopes to finding gold and work
Who are the Chinese
All people born in the United States are automatically citizens of the country
What is the 14th Amendment
Name of the school that Robert Pratt was the superintendent at
What is the Carlise Indian School
Southern States passed these to restrict black rights after the Civil War
What are black codes
Radical Republicans wanted to restrict the rights of freed slaves
What is false
The Homestead Act gave people land in this area
The Great Plains
System where landowners rent to farmers
What is sharecropping
What was the main purpose of the Dawes Act?
Laws that made things "separate but equal"
What are Jim Crow Laws
The Populist party supported private companies having control over a lot of industries.
What is false. They wanted the government.
This political party was started by farmers and represented the "common" person
What is the Populist Party
Government opens up land for people to settle and farm at. They have to pay a small fee and stay for a minimum of 5 years
What is the Homestead Act
Name of the types of areas Natives lived at. The land was often poor, unfit for things like farming, and government did not help it.
What are reservations.
Radical Republicans proposed which bill?
What is the Wade-Davis bill
Wounded Knee was the first conflict between Native Americans and the U.S. Government
What is false. It was the last.
What group frequently attacked Natives and stripped them of their land and resources in the West?