Acts
Made Native Americans citizens of the United States.
What is the Indian Citizen Act?
The rebuilding of the South after the Civil War.
What is the Reconstruction?
They invented the telegraph.
Who is Samuel Morse?
Improved transportation from coast to coast.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
Northerners who helped to rebuild the South.
What are Carpetbaggers?
What is the Civil Rights Act?
Created to ensure the fair treatment of freedmen.
What is the Department of Justice?
America's first Black Senator.
Who is Hiram Rhodes Revels?
Stagecoach company that delivered miners' gold to banks and also carried mail and passengers.
What is Wells Fargo?
They were hired to build the transcontinental railroad.
What are immigrants?
DAILY DOUBLE
This made large areas of land available to the Native Americans.
What is the Indian Reservation Act?
Also known as "Custer's Last Stand".
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Leader of the Sioux nation during the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Who is Chief Crazy Horse?
Group who wanted the government to control the Reconstruction.
What are the Radicals?
A person who farmed for a landowner to receive part of the crop's profit.
What is a shareholder?
in 1867, this divided former Confederate states into five military districts.
What is the Reconstruction Act?
Was organized to provide food for freed slaves and any poor Southern families for one year.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Who is Booker T. Washington?
DAILY DOUBLE!
This amendment said that no man could be kept from voting based on his color, race, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Laws in the South that only Black Americans had to obey during segregation.
What are the Black Codes?
Allowed settlers to claim land if they would improve it and live on it for at least 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
Over 200 Native Americans were killed by the US Army.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
The first former black American slave to serve in congress.
Who is Joseph Rainey?
Route Texas cattlemen used to move their cattle.
What is the Chisholm Trail?
Cattle were rounded up and herded here in a cattle drive.
What is a cow town?