Civil War
These two sides fought in the American Civil War.
What is the North and the South? (Also acceptable, What is the Union and the Confederacy?)
This man became President after Lincoln was assassinated. He was responsible for the period of Presidential Reconstruction.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
These were the two reasons that Congress took over Reconstruction in 1866.
What are the President was taking too long and his plan did was not committed enough to racial equality.
The discovery of this item led to an influx of people moving to California in 1849 (many being call the "forty-niners" because that is the year they came to California).
What is gold?
Federal lands set aside for Native American tribes to live on.
What are reservations?
He was the President of the United States (the Union) during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This Amendment defined citizenship as "all persons born or naturalized in the United States."
What is the 14th Amendment
This act by Congress encouraged settlers to move west by offering them 160 acres of land for a small fee if they lived and worked the land for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
This was the main cause of the Indians Wars that occurred between 1860 and 1890.
What is the movement of settlers westward onto the Great Plains?
The two main causes of the American Civil War.
What are economic issues and slavery?
This organization was established to assist formerly enslaved people and poor people living in the South.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This Amendment to the United States Constitution gave the right to vote to all male citizens regardless of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
What is the 15th Amendment?
This group helped railroad companies overcome construction challenges.
What are immigrants? (What are Chinese immigrants?)
Native American children were forced to attend boarding schools in order to promote this.
What is cultural assimilation?
This Union military strategy included blockading the Confederacy and starving it of supplies.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Three services that were provided by the Freedmen's Bureau.
What are food, clothing, education, medical care, and legal advice?
After Reconstruction had ended, many Southern states adopted these laws to limit the rights given to African Americans through the Reconstruction Amendments. For example, segregation.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
In this famous speech, William Jennings Bryan demanded an end to the gold standard and said this line, "You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold."
What is the "Cross of Gold" speech?
The Dawes Act was a significant step towards Native American assimilation because it forced them to go against this belief about land.
What is the belief that land could not be owned, bought, or sold.
Two issues that both the Union (the North) and the Confederacy (the South) faced in the war.
What are having money to finance the war, and finding enough soldiers to fight?
These laws were intended to restrict the freedom and limit the advancement of African Americans. They included curfews, limiting or denying the right to vote, labor contracts that kept them employed as farmworkers and house keepers.
What are black codes?
In this farming system people rented land and equipment to farm in exchange for a portion of their crops as rent.
What is sharecropping?
This led to a growing demand for some government control over the railroad companies.
What is excessive shipping rates?
This act of the white settlers to the Great Plains deprived the Native Americans of their main source of food, clothing, and shelter.
What is the slaughtering of the bison?