CW & Reconstruction Vocab
Northerns who left and moved south for economic ($$) opportunities were called?
Carpetbaggers
What was the goal of Sherman's "March to the Sea"?
To destroy the morale of the South so they would give up.
Working to pay of a debt
Debt Peonage
During this event roughly 200 Cheyene and Apache Native Americans were killed when US Troops attacked them in retaliation for the Souix Rebellion Wars...
Sand Creek Massacre
The expansion of suffrage rights to include African Americans caused this southern group to form?
Ku Klux Klan
"Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
- The Wizard of Oz
This document helped Americans to realize that the United States was a single nation, not just a collection of individual states.
Gettysburg Address
Identify TWO causes of the civil war
1) Slavery
2) Sectionalism
3) States' Rights
4) Southern states secede
5) Election of 1860 (Abraham Lincoln)
________________ was the first major treaty between Native Americans and the U.S. Government.
Treaty of Fort Laramie
Identify TWO problems farmers faced during the late 1800s.
1) Drought
2) Bugs
3) High transportation costs
4) High bank interest rates
5) Low crop prices
Freedman's Bureau
Private the Penguin: Skipper. Shouldn't we tell them that the boat is out of gas? Skipper the Penguin: Nah! Just smile and wave, boys. Smile and wave. [all four penguins waving]
Madagascar
#1 This book illustrated the horrors of slavery in the South. This led to increase in abolishonist in the North.
#2. What is an abolishonist?
#3. Name one famous abolishonist from this time.
**DAILY DOUBLE**
1) Uncle Tom's Cabin
2) Someone who is anti-slavery
3) Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman
**DAILY DOUBLE**
(HINT: ELECTION OF WHOM?)
Election of Rutherford B. Hayes
This law gave free land to anyone who would move west. This required the settlers to live on the land for five years, build a well and pay a small fee.
Homestead Act
Massacre at Wounded Knee
Identify the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments
13th- Abolishes Slavery
14th- Defines who a US citizen is
15th- You cannot be denied the right to vote based on race, color or previous servitude
Identify THREE reasons why someone would move west.
1) Gold or other resources
2) New opportunities
3) Escape Discrimination
4) Free land Opportunities
5) Railroads provided easier access
This was a nickname for southerners who supported the Radical Republicans.
This battle shattered the Union’s hope of winning the war quickly and easily.
First Battle of Bull Run
The process of taking someone else's culture on is called...
AND
What effect did it have on NA?
1.Assimilation
2. NA lost parts of their own culture
"You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold." ~William Jennings Bryan, 1896
According to this excerpt, which idea did William Jennings Bryan promote?
Bimetalism
Adding silver into the economy with gold.
What is the difference between black codes and Jim Crow laws?
Black Codes- Made it difficult for AA to have certain jobs, own land or rent
Jim Crow Laws- segregated places for AA and whites
Paolo: [removes Mia's glasses] Do you wear contact lenses?
Mia: Oh, I have them, but I don't like to wear them.
Paolo: Now... [he breaks her glasses in half]
Paolo: ...you do.
Mia: [shocked] You broke my glasses!
Paolo: You broke my brush.
Princess Diaries
He was the first African American man to be elected as US Senator from Mississippi.
(Hint: Look at your Reconstruction Notes and his initials are H.R.)
Hiram Revels
Which president did the House of Representatives impeach AND WHY?
Andrew Johnson
Radical Republicans felt he was too lenient on the South after the Civil War.
This battle was led by Chief Crazy Horse and Chief Sitting Bull. They led 2,000 NA warriors to attack George Custer and 200 US Troops. All US troops were killed.
Battle of Little Bighorn
What was the goal of the Dawes Act?
To assimilate/"Americanize" Native Americans into the US culture
How did the sharecropping system limit opportunities for African Americans to own farms and property?
a. Most sharecroppers lived in a cycle of debt, first buying goods on credit and then failing to make much money selling their crops.
b. Most sharecroppers only earned a tiny fraction of the profits gained from landowners’ sales of the produce they grew.
c. Most sharecroppers were forced to grow crops like corn and wheat, which were never in high demand by the American public.
d. Most sharecroppers had to live off of the crops they grew for food and as a result never had any produce left to sell.
a. Most sharecroppers lived in a cycle of debt, first buying goods on credit and then failing to make much money selling their crops.
"I understand nothing." — Michael Scott
The Office
President of the Confederate South and President of the Union during the Civil War
CSA- Jefferson Davis
Union- Abraham Lincoln
Describe three parts of the Compromise of 1877.
1) Rutherford B. Hayes became president
2) Removal of military districts in the South
3) Federal funding to southern RR and ports
4) Removal of troops from the south
5) A southern advisor to the presidents adminstration
#1 What caused buffalo to become depleated in the late 1800s?
#2 This was a tribal ritual that was to promote more buffalo and end white expansion.
1) Overhunting by white settlers
2) Ghost Dance Movement
Identify THREE things the Populist Party supported.
1) Helping farmers
2) Regulations on Railroads
3) Using Silver and Gold
4) Protective tariffs
5) Womens Suffrage
The cowboy's clothes, food, and vocabulary were heavily influced by the Mexican ....
Vaqueros
“Now that’s what I call high-quality H2O.”
Waterboy