True or False
After Abraham Lincoln died, his vice president _______________ became president
Who is Andrew Johnson
Conflict abounded in the West between ranchers and ____________.
Who are sheepmen
To separate people from the rest of society because of differences such as skin color or religion
What is segregate
What ammendment outlawed slavery?
What is the 13th Amendment
Often immigrants and black people became ________________ who branded cows
Who are cowboys
When a person takes the law into his own hands or is in agreement with someone taking the law into his own hands but has no legal authority to do so
What is vigilante justice
A white Southerner who worked with Northerners during Reconstruction
Who is scalawag
What provided food and clothing to freed slaves and poor white Southerners and set up schools for black people?
Who is the Freedman's Bureau
The railroad played a large role in the setting of the West by bringing ______________ west
Who are easterners
to accuse a public official of wrongdoing while in office
What is impeach
What was passed by Congress to establish military control of states that seceded from the Union and to ensure that new governments had racial equality?
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867
What ammendment defended civil rights?
What is the 14th Ammendment
George Custer, Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse were leaders involved in the Battle of the ______________.
What is Little Bighorn
The act of cheating to gain something unlawfully
What is fraud
What laws did the Democrats pass during Reconstruction to segregate black people and discriminate against them?
What are the Jim Crow Laws
What laws did Southern states pass that limited the rights of black Americans?
What are the Black Codes
A secret group called the _______________ arose in the South after the Civil War and used violent methods to prevent black people from exercising their civil rights.
What is the Ku Klux Klan
a Northerneer who moved to the South to get a government job after the Civil War
Who is carpetbagger
What ammendent prented the states from denying black people the right to vote?
What is the 15th Ammendment
Explain how the westward expansion brought opportunity to some people and injustices to others.
What is many immigrants made a new life in the West through hard work. Native Americans suffered much injustice as they were pushed off their land