Westward Expansion
This was an attempt to turn Native American people more "American"
Assimilation
This group of people opposed slavery
Abolitionists
President of the Union during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
Government organization created to helped newly freed slaves and poor whites in the south
Freedman's Bureau
A group of workers who join together to fight for better pay or better working conditions
A union
This was the idea that encouraged settlers to move West
Manifest Destiny
Slave who’s supreme court case ruled that African Americans were property
Dred Scott
Declared the freedom of all enslaved people in Confederate states
Emancipation Proclamation
This group formed to oppose Reconstruction efforts
The Ku Klux Klan
This invention led to more jobs for women in the workplace
Typewriter
Leader of the Sioux who fought during the Indian Wars
Sitting Bull
Gave Kansas popular sovereignty to decide if they'd allowed slavery. Led to the event Bleeding Kansas.
Kansas Nebraska Act
The military strategy the North blocked off the South from trade
Anaconda Plan
these were passed to restrict newly freed slaves rights
black codes, literacy tests, poll taxes (any would work!)
Founder of the Standard Oil Company.
John D. Rockefeller
Law that forced Native American to leave their land and supported the assimilation of Native Americans
Dawes Act
Slave who lead a rebellion across Southern Plantations
Nat Turner
The deadliest battle of the Civil War
Battle of Gettysburg
This amendment made all people born in the United States a citizen
The 14th Amendment
Scandal where railroad companies charged stockholders higher prices for construction and kept the extra money
Credit Mobilier
Site of the final defeat of the Native Americans on the frontier
Wounded Knee
This was created by the Missouri Compromise that allowed for slavery in the south and no slavery in the north.
36 30 Line
Where Robert E Lee surrendered the Civil War
Appomattox Court House
Who became president after Lincoln's assassination?
Andrew Johnson
the goal of this law was to help the government regulate shipping rates
Interstate Commerce Act