Southern Anger
This racist terrorist organization was formed after the Civil War by angry confederates and considered themselves a "secret society"
KKK
Party that fought for civil rights after the civil war.
Republican Party
This animal we almost hunted into extinction could stamped, easily overrun your wagon train and crush you.
Bison or Buffalo
This groups way of life was destroyed by the railroad
Native Americans
Billy the Kid was known as this...
Wild West outlaw and gunfighter
This party was the original party of the south and tried to sabotage voting rights after the Civil War.
The Democratic party
Reconstruction was driven by this...
A genuine moral commitment to tear slavery from American soil
In this profession you could easily fall hundreds of feet and die banging into jutting rocks below.
Mining
These two groups of immigrants built the majority of the railroad in harsh conditions for unproportionate pay.
The Chinese and the Irish
“Buffalo Bill” Cody was known as a
Miner, Pony Express Rider, army scout, actor and legendary showman.
This racist, formerly slave-owning alcoholic leader from Tennessee sabotaged efforts to extend civil rights—and physical protection—to newly freed slaves after the death of Lincoln.
Andrew Johnson
At the state level, laws expanded these individuals rights
Women and children as well as children of mixed races.
Many times legal, personal and economic disputes could be settled in these ways.
A shoot out or gunfight and rare cases duels
Leader who set forth the charter for the railroad to unify the nation.
Lincoln
Annie Oakley was known as
"Little Miss Sure Shot" worlds greatest marks man and popular actor.
This racist film depicts the rise of the KKK
"Birth of a Nation"
City councils and leadership roles were now being made up of these individuals.
People of color and Former slaves
An infection of the intestines that causes diarrhoea containing blood or mucus was rampant in the west at this time and could often lead to death.
Dysentery
The reason the railroad companies continue to build even after they could have already connected to each other.
Profitable land and mineral rights are up for grabs.
Another name for Robert LeRoy Parker
Butch Cassidy
Along with the KKK this group was a white paramilitary terrorist organization started in the Southern United States in 1874 to intimidate freedmen into not voting and prevent Republican Party political organizing.
The White League
These laws were modernized in the reconstruction era.
Property rights for women, divorce proceedings protection against parental abuse
A revenge act of cutting or tearing a part of the human scalp, with hair attached, from the head
Scalping.
Name of the east coast railroad that met the western based railroad.
Union Pacific Railroad
Specific name of the group the Earp's and Doc Holiday fought at O.K. Corral
"The Cowboys"