Reconstruction
This was established to provide food and clothing to newly freed slaves in the South
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Ended slavery throughout the United States
What is the 13th Amendment
This was the foundation of the Native American economy?
What is the buffalo?
Completed in 1869, it joined the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This invention brought an end to the era of the cowboy
What is barbed wire?
Most Blacks in the South were stuck in this job even years after the Civil War
What is sharecropping?
Stated all people born in the U.S. were citizens
What is the 14th Amendment?
This act split Native land into small parcels and sold the rest to Whites
What is the Dawes Act?
This gave a person land in the West for a $10 filing fee
What is the Homestead Act?
This insect destroyed crops that Homesteaders in the West tried to plant
What is locust?
This president signed the Civil Rights Bills and sought to dismantle the KKK
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Gave Black men over the age of 21 the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
This institution established boarding schools for Native American children with the purpose of assimilating them into American culture
What is the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
Most of these men were low paid wage workers on the open plains
What is the cowboy?
The term for northerners who moved to the South following the Civil War
What are carpetbaggers?
These laws made segregation legal in the South following the end of Reconstruction
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Passed in 1971, this amendment lowered the voting age to 18
What is the 26th Amendment?
This battle marked the end of 400 years of conflict between Native Americans and white settlers
What is the Massacre at Wounded Knee?
The move west after the Civil War was part of this larger concept in American history
Manifest Destiny
In this year, Congress made all Native Americans citizens of the United States
What is 1924?
This many military districts were created in the South during Reconstruction to ensure southerners were following the law
What are 5?
This amendment gave women the right to vote in 1920
What is the 19th Amendment?
This Supreme Court case ruled the 14th and 15th Amendments did NOT apply to Native Americans
What is Elk v Wilkins
Prior to the construction of the Transcontinental RR it took longer to get mail via this system
What is the Pony Express?
What is the Ghost Dance?