Reconstruction
This person was a Confederate sympathizer, an actor, and person who assassinated of Abraham Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Boothe?
This organization aided all needy people, but particularly those who were former slaves.
What is the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (aka Freedmen's Bureau)?
This allowed for cattle ranches to ship their cattle to Eastern markets more quickly and for less money.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
This entrepreneur revolutionized the steel industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Some people in the United States were afraid they might lose job opportunities due to this.
What is immigration?
This person did not want to punish the South for seceding, but wanted to bring the country back together peacefully.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What is Juneteeth?
This act of Congress opened up the Great Plains by giving 160 aces of land to the head of a family over the age of 21.
What is the Homestead Act?
This entrepreneur bought and eventually combined several oil refineries to make the Standard Oil Company.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This act of Congress prevented Chinese immigrants from coming to the United States for 10 years.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
These were laws that restricted former slaves from doing things like traveling, voting, and owning certain businesses.
What are black codes?
These people were people who came from the North to the South to help with Reconstruction governments.
Who are carpetbaggers?
After signing treaties with the US government, many Native American tribes were forced to live on these.
What are reservations?
This inventor set up the first central power station in New York City.
The largest movement of African Americans out of the South and into the North was known as this.
This person became the President after Lincoln's death.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
These people were white Southerners who opposed the slavery.
Who are scalawags?
The discovery of this is the reason that US soldiers forced all the Sioux Nation out of the Black Hills.
What is gold?
This invention brought over from England by a certain entrepreneur revolutionized the steel industry.
What is the blast furnace?
The wave of "new immigrants" came from these parts of Europe.
What is western and northern?
This had to be done before Southern states were allowed to re-establish their own government.
What is write a new constitution giving all men the right to vote?
This amendment to the US Constitution gave all men, regardless of race, the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This is another name for a gold miner.
What is a prospector?
Thomas Edison's laboratory in this city of New Jersey averaged a new invention every ________ days.
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Many Chinese immigrants came to the US during this.
What is the goldrush?