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Define Jim Crow Laws
Laws, primarily in the South, that enforced racial segregation and marginalized African Americans from the late 19th century until 1968
True or False:
The Democrats held anti-Slavery views during Reconstruction
False
What did the Transcontinental Railroad achieve?
Significantly cut cross-country travel time and led to massive economic growth
What is the Dawes Act?
The break up of communal Native American tribal lands into individual plots (160 acres for heads of families) to force assimilation into American society via agriculture. It resulted in the loss of over 90 million acres of tribal land.
What group had a significant negative impact on voting rights in the South?
Ku Klux Klan
What is the 13th Amendment?
Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States, except as punishment for a crime. It officially ended slavery after the Civil War.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
US President during Reconstruction whose main goal was to quickly bring Southern states back into the Union
What immigrant group played a significant role in building the Transcontinental Railroad?
Chinese Immigrants
What is the Carlisle Indian Industrial School?
A boarding school that forced Native American children to abandon their cultural practices and languages.
What are carpetbaggers?
Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction for political and economic opportunities.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Granted citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the U.S. and guaranteed equal protection and due process under the law. It was meant to protect the rights of formerly enslaved people.
What organization was created to help freed slaves and poor whites in the South after the Civil War?
Freedmen's Bureau
What is the Oregon Trail?
A primary pathway for hundreds of thousands of settlers, farmers, and miners migrating to the Pacific Northwest
What movement led to further conflict between Native Americans and US citizens?
Westward Expansion
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
U.S. federal law that prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Prohibited the government from denying a citizen the right to vote based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It aimed to ensure voting rights for African American men.
Who won the 1876 election (Republican or Democrat), and what compromise occurred as a result?
Republican candidate Hayes won. The compromise was that they ended the federal military occupation of the South.
What is the Homestead Act?
A law that encouraged Western expansion by granting 160 acres of public land to settlers who improved the plot over a five-year period
What three things motivated people to expand West?
Gold, Glory, God
Capitalism, Democracy, Christianity
New opportunities, riches, adventure, etc.
Name three things that killed reconstruction
Anti-Black Violence (KKK)
Election of 1876 / Compromise of 1877
Supreme Court (Plessy v. Ferguson)
What was Plessy v Ferguson?
Landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the "separate but equal" doctrine
The impact of Reconstruction eventually led to what social movement?
Civil Rights Movement
Define Manifest Destiny
The 19th-century belief that the United States was divinely ordained to expand its territory across North America from the Atlantic to the Pacific
What happened to Native Americans through the 1800s?
They were forced onto reservations
What idea resulted in the Mexican-American War?
Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion