Reconstruction vocab
What best defines reconstruction?
The Reconstruction era was the period after the American Civil War from 1865 to 1877,
Segregation laws meant to keep the races separated.
What are the Jim Crow laws/ Black Codes?
What is the significance of barbed wire?
Used to fence in land on the Great Plains, eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
Give 3 reasons for westward expansion
1. Manifest Destiny
2. Gold in California
3. Transcontinental railroad
4. The American dream
This led to expansion in California.
Gold Rush of 1849-1850
What did the 13th Amendment do?
Banned slavery in the United States except for punishment of crimes.
Why did reconstruction happen after the war?
What did the Indian Removal Act of 1830 authorize the government to do?
Allowed the government to move Native Americans to land west of the Mississippi River → Trail of Tears
What were the effects of the Transcontinental Railroad?
- railroads enable settlers to move West
- increased settler population leads the gov't to change its policy toward Native Americans
- railroads transport goods from the Great Plains to cities in the East
- led to the mass killing of the bison in the Great Plains
This was the link between the East and the West before the Transcontinental RR.
What was the Oregon trail?
What did the 15th Amendment do?
Defined voting rights for American citizens.
This group of people had beef with Andrew Johnson's plan for reconstruction.
Congress (Radical republicans in congress)
This indigenous group of people were forced out of northern Indiana which led to the Trail of Death
What is the Potawatomi?
What piece of legislation forced native Americans to assimilate into "American culture?"
What is the Dawes Act 1887?
What groups of people worked on the Transcontinental RR and what were their working conditions like?
Chinese, Irish immigrants
endured long hours in extreme weather, facing landslides, accidents, and disease.
Fourteenth Amendment
gave full citizenship to all people born in the United States, giving equal protection of the laws
The presence of federal troops in the south to help with Reconstruction. Also refers to the dividing of the South into military districts
What is the Bayonet rule?
Was the Reconstruction successful?
Reconstruction was a success in that it restored the United States as a unified nation
This event is remembered as the mass killing of 300~ Lakota and Sioux after they escaped a nearby reservation
Wounded Knee massacre
This piece of legislation gave 160 acres to anyone who settled and lived on the land for 5 years.
What is the Homestead act of 1862?
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
President Rutherford B. Hayes pulled the troops out of the South and allowed the states to continue with the reconstruction process. This brought an end to what period?
Prez. Hayes ended Reconstruction.
What was one of the failures of the reconstruction era?
The economy in the South was not rebuilt, and the rights of former slaves were not protected.
This was a spiritual movement to bring back prosperity to the Native Americans and the Great Plains.
What was the Ghost Dance?
This led to the violation of the Treaty of Laramie which then led to the outbreak of the Sioux Wars.
Gold discovered in the Black Hills of South Dakota.