After Slavery
This amendment officially outlawed slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This industrial project made it easier to travel from the east to the west coast in the United States.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
This is the name given to the African-American settlers in the west.
Who are the exodusters?
Having our paper money backed only by gold is called this.
True or False:
Many of the people that decided to live in the Great Plains became gold miners.
Many became farmers.
True or false:
The first American cowboys were actually black.
What is 'true'?
White men rustling cattle were referred to as 'cowhands', black men rustling cattle were referred to as 'cow boys' as a sign of disrespect.
This amendment made former slaves and the children of those slaves official citizens of the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment?
True or false:
The transcontinental railroad was completed by only one railroad company.
What is false?
What are the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad companies
A frontier home, usually dug into a hill or made from sod.
What is Soddy?
Backing money with silver and gold is called this type of -ism.
What is bimetallism?
This was the purpose of the Homestead Act.
What is the act that offered free land to western settlers?
This was the name of the black US rangers who were keeping the west safe for new settlers moving to The Great Plains. They were named by Native-Americans.
What is "Buffalo Soldiers"?
This amendment outlawed denying suffrage to African-Africans.
What is the 15th Amendment?
What year was the transcontinental railroad completed?
a.) 1866
b.) 1869
c.) 1875
What is 1869 (May 10th)?
A bonanza farm is an example of a large farm with this number of different crops growing on it.
What is one.
This is the name of the political movement that sought advancement for farmers and laborers.
What is Populism?
This is the name of the government agency established by Congress to help former slaves in the South after the Civil War & during Reconstruction.
What is Freedman's Bureau?
The region of grassland in the United States the homesteaders would settle.
What are the Great Plains?
Hiram Revels became the first African-American senator in the United States. What was the state he was elected to?
What is Mississippi?
This was the name of the trail cowboys used to get cattle from Texas to Kansas before there were rail cars to carry the cattle.
What is the Chisholm Trail?
The Morrill Act helped to establish these kinds of colleges for those settling the Great Plains
What is agricultural?
This became a popular occupation for former slaves in which landowners gave a few acres of land to farm workers in return for a portion of their crops.
What is sharecropping?
This is the name of the leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux (Native American tribe) that defeated Colonel George A. Custer in 1876 at the Little Bighorn River, killing Custer and all his soldiers.
Who is Sitting Bull?
This is the name of the plan to make the Native Americans part of white culture.
What is assimilation?
This was the name white southerners who joined the Republican Party called.
What are scalawags?
Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War were referred to as this.
What are carpetbaggers?
What is Grange?
This is the name of the act that broke up Native American reservations.
What is the Dawes Act?
The name of the US massacre of Sioux at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota.
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?
True or False:
When the Chisholm Trail was used, it would take about three months or more to get the cattle from Texas to Kansas.
What is true?