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civil war
Reconstruction

Cultures clash on the prairie
Mining and ranching
Settling on the great plains
100
Ulysses S. Grant
Union general
100
Andrew Johnson
president after Lincoln
100
A sitting bull
leader of the hunkpapa sioux
100
long drive
three month long overland transport of cattle
100
homestead act
act that offered free land to western settlers
200
Confederate general
stonewall jackson
200
hirman revels
first african american senator
200
the great plains
the grassland region of the united states
200
comstock lode
mine in present day nevada where prospectors found silver
200
exoduster
african american settler in the west
300
Drating men to serve in the army
conscription
300
scalawags
white southerners who joined the republican party to have greater political opportunities
300
George A. Custer
colonel in the us cavalry
300
placer mining
method of extracting gold from loose sand and gravel by planning of sluicing
300
soddy
frontier home usually dug into a hill or made of sod
400
The most decisive battle of the war
what was gettysburg
400
black codes
laws that restricted african americans’ lives
400
assimilation
name of the plan to make native americans part of white culture
400
hydraulic mining
method of extracting gold by using water under high pressure to blast away dirt and expose minerals
400
morrill act
act that helped establish agricultural colleges
500
confederate general
Robert E. Lee
500
carpetbaggers
northerners who moved to the south after the war
500
Dawes act
law that broke up native american reservations
500
hard rock mining
method of extracting gold that involved digging tunnels and breaking up the ore
500
bonanza farm
large single crop farm