Vocabulary
The name of the time period after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The 16th president of the United States that drafted a Reconstruction plan called reconciliation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The plan made by Abraham Lincoln to bring the North and South back together.
What is reconciliation?
This invention broke up the sod of the Great Plains.
What is the steel plow?
The action or state of setting someone or something apart from others.
What is segregation?
The type of rights that the 15th Amendment granted.
What are voting rights?
The commander of the South during the Civil War who urged Southerners to accept defeat.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
The organization set up by Congress to help former enslaved African Americans build new lives.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
This was discovered in California causing thousands to move in 1849.
What is gold?
The unfair difference in the treatment of people.
What is discrimination?
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
A freed slave who was a powerful voice for civil liberties and emphasized the importance of voting rights.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Name of the act that put a ten year halt on Chinese labor immigration.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This chief tried to flee to Canda along with his tribe.
Who is Chief Joseph?
Northerners who arrived in the South carrying their belongings in suitcases made of carpeting.
What are carpetbaggers?
The group of people who had their voting rights limited by literacy tests and poll taxes.
Who are African Americans?
The name of the college that Robert E. Lee was president of.
What is Washington College? (Will accept: Washington and Lee University)
Name of the court case that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Battle that ended in the deaths of General Custer and his men against the Sioux.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
An official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offenses.
What is amnesty?
A group of people that was excluded from the rights extended by the 15th Amendment.
Who are women or American Indians?
The president who ended Reconstruction with his election in 1876.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
Act that declared that all Americans were citizens and everyone had the same rights.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866? (Half credit if no year is given)
This man invented barbed wire.
Who is Joseph Glidden?