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Reconstruction
Words 2 Know
Words 2 Know
Go West!
On the Prairie
100
President of the US. Assassinated at the end of the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
a large area of level or slightly rolling land
What is a prairie?
100
A camp that grows into a town almost over night
What is a boom town?
100
connected the East and West coast
What is the Transcontinental Railway?
100
this dance was feared by the U.S. Goverment
What is The Ghost Dance?
200
rights belonging to all citizens
What are civil rights?
200
meaning across a continent
What is transcontinental?
200
A person who searches for gold, silver, or other valuable minerals
What is a prospector?
200
Coming from China, these people mostly built the rails in the West; coming from Ireland these people mostly built the rails in the East.
Who are immigrants?
200
hundreds of Native Americans killed while turning over weapons
What is the Massacre at Wounded Knee?
300
Lincoln's Vice-President, became President in 1865.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
300
a person freed from slavery~ the Freedman's Bank is name after them
What is a Freedman.
300
public land set aside by the government for the use of a particular group of people
What is a reservation?
300
passed in 1862, this law allowed settlers to claim land for $10 dollars, as long as they stayed for five years and built a house.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
300
farm families joined together to help each other in this organization
What is The Grange?
400
wanted to make the south pay for the War, radically opposed President Johnson.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
400
the time period after the Civil War when the United States began to rebuild the South
What is Reconstruction?
400
the handing down of information, beliefs, and customs from one generation to another.
What is a tradition?
400
hundreds killed to make way for the rails
What are buffalo?
400
worked 18 hours a day to raise valuable beef
What is a cowhand?
500
this Civil Rights Act was passed by Congress in March of 1866
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
500
Changes to the Constitution, during Reconstruction these where made to help African Americans.
What are Amendments?
500
a person who received land under the Homestead Act of 1862
What is a homesteader?
500
Orange
What is Mr. Hunter favorite color?
500
played in the Fall in almost all public schools in America
What is Football?