This organization gave food, clothing, medicine, and other supplies to freed slaves and poor whites.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
100
Freedom of speech, press, assembly, petition, and religion.
What is the First Amendment?
100
A town where railroad tracks begin or end.
What is a railhead?
100
Land that the government set aside for American Indians.
What are reservations?
200
The President of the Confederate States of America
Who was Jefferson Davis?
200
In this arrangement, a landowner gave a worker supplies and a place to live. Since the worker had no money for rent, he agreed to give the owner a share of the crop at harvest time, plus extra for the cost of rent and supplies.
What is sharecropping?
200
Banned slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
200
The demand for cattle was growing in these places.
What is the North and the East?
200
Event in which volunteer fighters of the Colorado militia attacked a Cheyenne village. The Cheyenne were asleep when the attack began. Chief Black Kettle surrendered, however, the soldiers ignored him and killed almost half of the village.
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
300
Union soldiers moved from Atlanta to Savannah on this journey.
What is the March to the Sea?
300
Laws passed to discriminate against African Americans. They made it legal to have separate schools, hotels, restaurants, theaters, trains, buses, and restrooms.
What were Jim Crow Laws?
300
Ensures that the right to vote cannot be denied because of race, or color or previous conditions of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
300
Most of the cattle drives started out of this state.
What is Texas?
300
George Custer and his soldiers tried to force the Lakota and Cheyenne Indians onto a reservation, but the Indians won this battle.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
400
Much of this side experienced the most hardships because most of the battles were fought here.
What is the South?
400
Became President of the U.S. after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
400
You have many protections when in a court of law. A jury decides if you can be prosecuted for a serious crime. You can't be tried twice for the same crime. You don't have to testify against yourself.
What is the 5th Amendment?
400
Cattle drives lasted for about _______ years.
What is 20?
400
United States soldiers chased fleeing Ghost Dancers, attacking and killing followers of Chief Big Foot.
What is the Massacre at Wounded Knee?
500
The place and date the Lee surrendered to Grant.
What is Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865?
500
The year Reconstruction ended.
What is 1877?
500
`States or the people keep all the rights not given to the national government.
What is the 10th Amendment?
500
The first cattle trail, which blazed from the Red River in northern Texas to Abilene.
What is the Chisholm Trail?
500
Changing a group's culture and traditions so that it blends with a larger group.