Reconstruction Amendments
This amendment bans slavery in the US & any of its territories
What is the 13th amendment?
During Reconstruction, African Americans were able to do this for the first time.
What is vote?
This president wanted to not punish the South and bring the nation back together through reconciliation and peace.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This invention was used to help pump water out of the ground on the Great Plains.
What is a windmill?
This reason for moving west is related to its discovery in California in 1848.
What is gold?
All persons born in the US are citizens. This right was granted under which amendment?
What is the 14th amendment?
These laws were passed by southern states to prevent blacks from having full freedom.
What are Black Codes?
This former slave fought for black voting rights and was a strong voice for human rights and civil liberties.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Before the Civil War, many people saw the Great Plains as a "____________ ____________."
What is a "treeless wasteland"?
The Homestead Act gave this for free to anyone who would live on it and improve it for five years.
What is land?
This amendment grants citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
What is the 15th amendment?
This group supervised the South during Reconstruction and protected African-Americans.
What are federal troops?
This former Confederate general wanted Southerners to reconcile with the North when some wanted to continue fighting.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Describe the geography/physical features of the Great Plains.
What is flatlands that rise gradually from east to west and/or land eroded by wind and water?
This Native American leader fought at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Who is Sitting Bull?
These 3 amendments guarantee equal protection under the law for all citizens
What are the Reconstruction amendments (13th, 14th, and 15th)?
This organization was established by Congress to help former slaves with education and jobs
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This is the name for Northerners who took advantage of Southerners during Reconstruction.
Who are carpetbaggers?
Describe the climate of the Great Plains.
What is low rainfall, frequent dust storms, harsh summers and winters?
Explain assimilation.
What is forcing a group of people to adapt a new, more popular culture and abandon their traditional one?
Throwback: This is the name of the first ten amendments to the Constitution.
What are the Bill of Rights?
Federal troops were authorized to enforce equal rights of African Americans under this law
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
This ended Reconstruction and caused the federal troops to leave the south.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Name all six of the inventions/adaptations that helped people live on the Great Plains.
What is the windmill, barbed wire, steel plow, Transcontinental Railroad, McCormick's reaper, and sod houses?
Name all three Native American leaders and how they resisted westward expansion.
Who is Sitting Bull (fought at the Battle of Little Bighorn), Chief Joseph (tried to escape to Canada), and Geronimo (staged raids on settlers in Mexico)?