Reconstruction
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Defined citizenship at the national level
What is the 14th Amendment?
He and his 7th Calvary were overrun by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors at the Little Bighorn River.
Who is Colonel George Custer?
One of the two railroads that combined to create the first transcontinental railroad
What is the Central Pacific or the Union Pacific Railroads?
Immigrants on the west coast gained entry though this station in the San Francisco Bay
What is Angel Island?
She is a famous conductor of the underground railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Susan B Anthony was a leading proponent of this movement
What is women suffrage?
Lincoln's reconstruction policy
What is the 10% plan?
Offered 160 acres free to heads of households.
What is the Homestead Act?
His steam drill started the oil boom in the US
Who is Edwin Drake?
The only president to serve nonconsecutive terms
Who is Cleveland?
He was a lawyer in Illinois before entering into politics, eventually becoming the 16 President of the US
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
After reading the Jungle, Roosevelt pushed for it’s passage
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
The first African-American Senator
Who is Hiram Revels?
Homes built out of blocks of prairie turf.
What are sod houses or soddies?
One of the richest men in the world, was born poor in Scotland
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
The growth of cities
What is Urbanization?
A Confederate officer and Lee’s right-hand man, was shot by his own men
Who is Thomas Stonewall Jackson?
The year the women’s suffrage amendment was ratified by the states and added to the US Constitution
What is 1920?
White southerners who joined the Republican Party.
Who are scalawags?
Aimed to “Americanize” Native-Americans
What is the Dawes Act?
Cheap and efficient steel manufacturing process
What is the Bessemer process?
The year in which the Chinese Exclusion Act was first past.
What is 1882?
DAILY DOUBLE The Illinois senator who pushed through the Clay Compromise of 1850
Who is Stephen Douglas?
Segregation laws that took their name from an old minstrel show character
Who is Jim Crow?
A portion of the harvest is used to pay rent and buy supplies.
What is sharecropping?
They taught American cowboys how to manage large herds on the open range
Who are Mexican Vaqueros?
He used trusts to gain of the oil industry in the US
Who is John Rockefeller?
Multifamily urban dwellings
What are tenements?
His court case established that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional
Who is Dred Scott?
Made direct election of US Senators the law of the land
What is the 17th amendment?