This amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th amendment?
These were laws explicitly designed to restrict the progress of Black Americans, leading to the creation of organizations like the Freedmen's Bureau.
What were the Black Codes?
These places were designated areas for Native Americans to live.
What is a reservation?
Immigrants from these two countries labored tirelessly to build the Transcontinental Railroad.
What are China & Ireland?
This amendment granted citizenship to all men born in the United States.
What is the 14th amendment?
With the increase in Black Colleges, Black Americans' political participation increased under this political party.
What is the Republican Party?
This is where many American Indian children were sent to be forcibly assimilated into White American culture.
What are Indian Boarding Schools?
This is the right of women to vote, which was fought for by women like Susan B. Anthony.
What is Women's Suffrage?
This amendment to the Constitution allowed all men to vote in the United States.
What is the 15th amendment?
This compromise resulted in the end of Reconstruction.
What was the Compromise of 1877?
These American Indian leaders were responsible for the defeat of General Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Who are Crazy Horse & Sitting Bull?
These are examples of how the right to vote was restricted by the Jim Crow South.
What are poll taxes, literacy tests, or grandfather clauses?
This law gave Americans access to 160 acres of land if they agreed to move out west.
What is the Homestead Act?
This Supreme Court case resulted in the legal standard of "separate but equal," or legal segregation.
What is Plessy V. Ferguson?
This law aimed to connect the eastern and western railroads in the United States.
What was the Pacific Railway Act?
Americans granted citizenship to Mexicans after this treaty ended the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This law banned Chinese immigrants from coming to the United States for ten years.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
These civil rights cases were a counter to the Civil Rights Act of 1875.
What are the Civil Rights Cases of 1883?
This law tried to have American Indians switch to a farming-based society but resulted in a loss of land for Natives.
What is the Dawes Act?
This is the belief that native citizens are more of a priority than immigrants.
What is Nativism?