Civil War/Reconstruction
The two main causes of the Civil War.
Sectionalism and Slavery
The main goal of Reconstruction after the Civil War.
What is ensuring Civil Rights and readmitting states to the union?
This natural resource played a significant role in motivating the settlement and development of the West.
What is gold?
A federal law that aimed to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream American society by breaking up tribal lands into individual plots and encouraging farming.
What was the Dawes Act?
This group used violence and intimidation to prevent African Americans from exercising their voting rights after the Civil War
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Lincoln, the Republican candidate, won because the Democratic party was split over slavery. As a result, the South no longer felt like it had a voice in politics and a number of states seceded from the Union.
What is the Election of 1860?
This ended the reconstruction Era.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This reform of the Populist Party advocated for a way to increase the money supply and help struggling farmers.
What is bimetallism?
The massacre that occurred in 1890 involving the U.S. Army and the Lakota Sioux.
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
This resembled slavery following the Civil War.
What is sharecropping?
Lincoln believed that seceded states should be restored to that Union quickly and easily, with 'malice toward none, with charity for all.'
What was Lincoln's 10% Plan?
One action taken by Radical Republicans during Reconstruction.
What was establish military districts in the former Confederate states?
The Populist Party, also known as the People's Party, emerged primarily in response to
What were agricultural challenges and economic inequality?
The final “battle” between the Plains Indians and the U.S. Government occurred at
Where was Wounded Knee?
Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests were often used to disenfranchise African American voters, which violated this amendment.
What is the 15th amendment?
1867, removed governments in states not ratifying 14th Amendment, made 5 military districts, state must write a new constitution, ratify 14th Amendment, and allow African Americans to vote.
What was Radical Reconstruction?
These debates over Reconstruction was MOST influenced by the outcome of the Civil War.
How should Southern states be readmitted to the Union, and how should freedmen be treated?
The primary purpose of the cattle trails in the late 1800s.
What was to drive cattle from ranches to railheads for shipment east?
A school famous for forcibly assimilating Native American children into American culture.
What is the Carlisle Indian School?
This was designed by the Radical republicans to assist newly freed African Americans with education, employment, and basic necessities.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
A northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War; especially one who tried to gain political advantage or other advantages from the disorganized situation in southern states.
What was a carpetbagger?
The political conflict that led to Johnson’s impeachment.
What was Johnson's violation of the Tenure of Office Act?
Major struggles faced by farmers on the Great Plains in the late 19th century.
What were high debt, low crop prices, and natural disasters?
The Battle of Little Bighorn is most closely associated with this Native American leader.
Who was Sitting Bull?
Laws that restricted the rights and freedoms of African Americans.
What were Black Codes?