Major Laws
What law encouraged people to move West by giving them free land?
Homestead Act
What region of the US was very flat, had dry land, had little rainfall, and barely any trees?
Great Plains
Who was the first president to be impeached?
Andrew Johnson
When a person does not like a group or type of people and they mistreat those people
Discrimination
What was a new form of slavery where landowners would keep former slaves in debt to keep them working?
Sharecropping
What amendment ended slavery?
13th amendment
Who was sent to the South to enforce the new laws of Reconstruction?
US military
Who was the US general during the Battle of Little Bighorn?
General George Custer
Crossing a continent
Transcontinental
Buffalo
What law divided former Native American tribal lands and sold them to farmers with the goal of erasing their spiritual ties?
Dawes Act
What region of the US passed Jim Crow laws to enforce segregation?
South
Who created the Ten Percent Plan that stated 10% of men had to give an oath of loyalty to the North?
A negative reaction by a group of people
Backlash
What group provided support to poor Southerners during Reconstruction?
Freedmen's Bureau
What amendment gave all citizens the right to vote?
15th amendment
What animal did settlers in the West herd and send to the cities in the East?
Cattle
Who was the Native American leader during the Nez Perce War who attempted to escape his tribe to Canada?
Chief Joseph
To become part of a different group or culture
Assimilation
What was being "reconstructed" during the time period after the Civil War?
What amendment guaranteed equal protection under the law?
14th amendment
Wheat
Who was the first African American to serve in the US Senate?
Hiram Revels
An area of land set aside by the government for Native Americans to relocate to and self-govern themselves on
Reservations
What was the law that stated if your grandfather could vote, then you did not need to take a literacy test or pay the poll tax?
Grandfather clause