Amendments and Reconstruction
This period was from 1865-1877 and included policies and processes aimed at readmitting Confederate states to the union.
What is Reconstruction?
This vigilante group wanted to destroy the Republican Party, end Reconstruction and support the plantation class.
Who is the KKK?
The year that the Federal Government first negotiated individual treaties with tribes and set up tribal reservations.
What is 1850?
These are the effects of Westward expansion on Native Americans.
What are loss of land, loss of resources, conflict and forced assimilation?
These are the three groups of people that worked on the Transcontinental Railroad.
Who are immigrants from Europe, immigrants from China and Civil War veterans.
This amendment defined citizens as those “born or naturalized in the United States.”
What is the 14th Amendment?
This party supported the harshest Reconstruction plan on the South.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
This General's last stand was at Little Bighorn, where he and his men were ambushed and killed within an hour by Sitting Bull, Gall, and Crazy Horse.
Who is General Custer?
These are the names of the two railroads companies that were competing in the Transcontinental Railroad Race.
Who are Central Pacific and Union Pacific?
Which group suffered the most prejudice of the railroad workers?
Who are Chinese Immigrants?
This amendment forbid states from denying the vote based on “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
What is the 15th Amendment?
Democrats demanded removal of Federal troops from the South in exchange for supporting this presidential candidate for President.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
This policy wanted to "Americanize" Natives Americans by forcing them to give up their beliefs and way of life and become part of the white culture.
What is the assimilation?
This act offered 160 acres in exchange for improving the land after 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
This person was the leader of the Lakota tribe.
Who is Sitting Bull?
This amendment made slavery unconstitutional, ending the practice in America.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This was the nickname of President Lincoln's Reconstruction plan.
What is "the 10% plan"?
Conflicts between settlers and Native Americans led to the removal of Native Americans to these?
What are Reservations
Where did the railroads meet and end the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad?
Promontory Point, Utah
What was twisted wire with sharp points every few inches?
What is barbed wire?
Radical Republicans overrode this president's vetos of the Freedmen's Bureau Act and the Civil Rights Act and impeached him.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
The significance of this government organization was to help newly freed slaves transition to freedom through education, employment, and legal assistance.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This animal was essential to Native American life on the plains and was decimated by the building of the railroads and homesteaders?
What is the Buffalo?
The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad made moving west...
Quicker, safer, and more efficient
This was the belief during the late 19th Century that it is destiny to control land from the Atlantic to the Pacific
What is Manifest Destiny?