SS 2 Exam 1

Vocabulary

100

U.S. federal agency established in 1865 to aid newly freed slaves and poor whites in the aftermath of the Civil War

Freedmen's Bureau

200

a northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War, seeking personal gain

carpetbagger

300

a white southerner who supported the Republican party and Reconstruction-era policies following the Civil War

scalawag

400

U.S. law passed in 1862 that gave U.S. citizens and future citizens up to 160 acres of public land to cultivate if they lived and farmed on it for at least 5 years

Homestead Act

500

this amendment prohibits denying a person the right to vote based on their race

14th Amendment

Prominent Figures

100

16th President of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865

Abraham Lincoln

200

a Confederate sympathizer who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln

John Wilkes Booth

300

He assumed the presidency after Lincoln's assassination; he was impeached, but acquitted.

Andrew Johnson

400

18th President of the United States; a former Union general who led forces to victory in the Civil War

Ulysses S. Grant

500

19th President of the United States; a staunch abolitionist who defended refugee slaves in court proceedings

Rutherford B. Hayes

American Indian Wars

100

U.S. law signed by President Andrew Jackson that authorized the president to negotiate treaties to exchange native lands for territory west of the Mississippi River

Indian Removal Act

200

this act allowed the federal government to break up tribal lands into individual plots, intended to encourage native peoples to assimilate into mainstream society

Dawes Act

300

1864 massacre of a peaceful village of Cheyenne & Arapaho by the U.S. Army

Sand Creek Massacre

400

1890 massacre in which approximately 300 Lakota Sioux were killed by the U.S. Army

Wounded Knee Massacre

500

a series of agreements between the U.S. and Native American tribes, most notably the 1868 treaty with the Lakota Sioux; the 1868 agreement was intended to establish the Great Sioux Reservation, which included the sacred Black Hills, in exchange for the tribes ceasing hostilities

Treaty of Fort Laramie

Manifest Destiny

100

President Thomas Jefferson commissioned which two explorers to find a water route to the Pacific Ocean?

Lewis & Clark

200

America's first major land acquisition was the _____________ in 1803.

Louisiana Purchase

300

The majority of miners seeking gold in California made the trek across the U.S. in this year

1849

400

This conflict was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution that resulted in Mexican troops reclaiming a mission near modern day San Antonio.

Battle of the Alamo

500

Name 3 requirements of the Homestead Act.

must reside continuously on the land for at least 5 years

must build a home on the land

must cultivate (farm) the land

Miscellaneous

100

this was the 19th century belief that the U.S. was divinely destined to expand across the North American continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean

Manifest Destiny

200

the period of American history from 1865-1877, following the Civil War, focused on rebuilding the South and integrating formerly enslaved people into American society

Reconstruction Era

300

this amendment officially abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States

13th Amendment

400

this name was given to African Americans who migrated from the South to the Great Plains, particularly Kansas, between 1870-1890, to escape racial violence and Jim Crow Laws

Exodusters

500

This was the name of the Washington, D.C. theater in which Abraham Lincoln was assassinated while watching a play.

Ford's Theatre