Reconstruction #2
White Southerners that supported Republicans and reconstruction efforts
What are Scalawags?
Abolished slavery in the United States
What was the 13th Amendment?
The driving of the Golden Spike in Utah symbolized this
The idea of the God-given right to settle the west.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This government act provided opportunity for people to own 160 acres of land in the Great Plains
What is the Homestead Act?
Northerners that came to the South to support Reconstruction Ideals.
What are Carpetbaggers?
Allowed all male citizens to vote regardless of race, or color, regardless of previous servitude.
What was the 15th amendment?
Tribal nations were relocated to these by the United States Government.
What are reservations?
Nickname for immigrants migrating to California during the gold rush.
Who were the 49ers?
Native Americans mistrusted the U.S. government over this, which happened throughout Westward Expansion.
What are broken treaties?
A government organization that helped newly freed slaves with food, jobs, medical care, and education.
What was the Freedman's Bureau?
These were laws passed to keep blacks separate from whites.
What were "Jim Crow" laws
Drought, insect pests, and hard soil were some of the challenges farming this region.
What was the Great Plains?
These two immigrants were instrumental in building the Transcontinental Railroad.
Who were the Chinese and Irish
The route over which settlers traveled west in the 1840s and 1850s; trails branched off from it toward Utah and California.
What was Oregon Trail?
White-supremacist group, led by former Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, that threaten and intimidated blacks and white sympathizers, especially in terms of voting.
Who was the Klu Klux Klan (KKK)?
Laws that were passed to restrict the rights and freedom of African Americans, including voting opportunities.
What were the Black Codes?
This important food source for tribes nearly became extinct due to overhunting and government sanctioned hunts.
What are Bison?
The last Indian War took place here.
What was Wounded Knee
This president sanction the largest mass execution of people in US history as 4000 spectators watched
Who was President Abraham Lincoln?
This was an attempt to economically keep freedmen as slaves by having them go into debt.
What was sharecropping.
Gave citizenship to all people born in the United States, including African Americans.
What was the 14th Amendment?
This was the city where the Transcontinental Railroad was complete.
What was Promontory Point, Utah.
He led the ill-fated attack at the Little Big Horn.
Who was General George Custer.
William Jennings Bryan said that the American farmer would be crucified on this as he argued for bimetallism.
What was a Cross of Gold.