Civil War
Which elected president was the cause of the first 7 southern states to secede?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
During the Reconstruction Era, freedmen were economically dependent on their former masters due to these two systems.
What is sharecropping and debt peonage?
An invention that enclosed the open range and helped control cattle
What is barbed wire?
The necessary legislation that gave slaves their opportunity to free life in the United States
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
A group that opposed reconstruction with violence
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Transportation contributing to the settlement of the west.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
This deemed segregation being constitutional because of "separate but equal" laws.
What is Plessy V. Ferguson?
The group that helped the freedmen during the reconstruction era
What are carpetbaggers and radical republicans?
What is the "Americanization" policy made in 1887 regarding Native Americans
What is The Dawes Act?
An advantage(s) that the North had over the South during the Civil War?
What is population, manufactured goods, firearm productions, livestock, food production, natural resources, miles of railroad, textile production?
Supreme court case that ruled African Americans were not citizens and that congress had no right to forbid slavery
What is the Dred Scott Decision
This group grew wealthy while 'Indians' grew hungry
What are Federal Indian Agents?
This agency helped four million free slaves enter into public life and the free market economy
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
How the South attempted to deprive African Americans of their newfound rights after the Civil War
What are Black Codes and "Jim crow" laws
Built sod houses, used dry farming techniques, used barb wire fences, burned cow and buffalo chips for fuel, windmills pumped water, steal plow used for soil
How did farmers adapt to conditions on the great plains?