Westward Expansion
Free 160 acres of land to any settler wishing to move West and farm the land for five years.
The Homestead Act
What made slavery illegal?
13th Amendment
The first African American to server in Congress
Hiram Rhodes Revels
Northerners who came to the South following the Civil War, to rebuild. Many Southerners felt as if they were being taken advantage of and resented their presence.
Carpetbaggers
The main reason for the drop in crop prices was due to
Overproduction or Agricultural Surplus
In an6 attempt to Americanize the Indians, Congress passed the ____________________ which gave claim to 160 acres of Reservation land to the Native Americans who would farm it for five years.
The Dawes Act
Supreme Ct. ruled that a black man was not a citizen of the U.S. but rather property because he had been bought.
Scott v. Sanford
He was ruled to be not a citizen but rather property.
Dred Scott
Supreme Court case that reinforced Jim Crow Laws by stating, "Separate but Equal".
Plessy v. Ferguson
The Populists reasoned that the free coinage of silver would increase the money supply through a process known as
Bimetallism
The two companies who built the Transcontinental Railroad were the ____________ and the___________
Union Pacific and Central Pacific
Two ways in which Southern plantation owners violated the 13th Amendment and basically kept blacks in slavery.
Sharecropping and Debt Peonage
Wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Considered the worst period in race relations between whites and blacks in American history.
Nadir
He gave the, "Cross of Gold" speech.
William Jennings Bryan
The first federal law to regulate business practices.
The Interstate Commerce Act
This group wanted to give full rights to the freedmen and refused to seat Southerners in Congress.
Radical Republicans
He and his son's led a raid on an arsenal at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. As a result, he would be arrested and hung.
John Brown
Ended Reconstruction by having all federal troops removed from the South.
The Compromise of 1877
The final spike connecting the Transcontinental Railroad was driven in at
Promontory, Utah
To bring back the buffalo the Sioux began a ritual that would scare the U.S. Army troops in the area resulting in the massacre of over 200 Sioux men, women and children.
The Ghost Dance
President Johnson will be impeached for violating the
Tenure of Office Act.
At the start of the Civil War, he presented a plan to suffocate the South into submission by cutting off all supply routes called the, Anaconda Plan.
General Winfield Scott
Attempt by U.S. diplomats from the South to purchase Cuba as new slave state.
The Ostend Manifesto
She wrote, "A Century of Dishonor".
Helen Hunt Jackson