1-5 Flashcards
Which President was a Lame duck
Andrew Jackson
_________ Wanted to continue Lincoln’s plan for the 10% loyalty on the south
Andrew Jackson
Where is the impeachment trial held for Andrew Jackson
Congress
__________ required that 50 percent of a state’s white males take a loyalty oath to be readmitted to the Union
Wade - Davis Bill
which amendment ends slavery
13th
A association that helped freed slaves out.
They provided food, housing, education.
Freedmen’s Bureau
which amendment gave the slave citizenship
14th
which amendment gave the slave voting rights
15th
People who came against the south
They thought blacks had the same amount of rights that the white people did.
Radical Republicans
why did the southerns hate the Radical Republicans
because they were trying to push the southerns out.
what was the sharecropping system
You would have to give your landowner some of your crops
Sharecroppers would charge to your account and pay it all when had harvest time.
Credit
They had all of there things stuffed in the carpets.
Took advantage of the people post civil war
Carpetbaggers
southerners
Was the same thing as a carpetbagger
Scalawags
The widow women would marry other men for money not love.
Marriage of Economy
Slaves moved all over and try to get away from the south.
Expansion
when did We bought Alaska from Russia
1867
Sward’s Folly
They thought the man named seward was crazy because who would want to have alaska
How much did we pay for Alaska
7.2 million
what did we get from Alaska
Oil
Alaska Becomes a state when
1959
What will bring people over to Alaska
Gold and Oil
Go to Oregon, Texas, the Great Plains
Westward Expansion
What would people make their houses out of in the West
sod
The West had many names. Name 2
Tornado Alley
Dust Bowl
What would farmers and train conductors do to the Bufflo
kill them because they were in the way
Before trains
How they would communicate across the country.
2 weeks one way
They would have a horse, saddle bag, and a gun
Pony Express
Alexander Gram Bell
Telegram
First time it was used was Titanic 1912 (SOS)
A series of dots and dashes
Morse Code
1869, May 10th
first train
Promontory Point, Utah
where the train started
why did we hire Chinese people to work
because they would work for cheap money.
what did the native do to the trains
tear up tracks because they did not want the railroads to come through.
who was Sitting Bull
an Indian Cheif
Temporary General
George Armstrong Custer
Graduated last in the class Westpoint Military Academy Sent to handle the Native population Indian Name (sun of the morning star
George Armstrong Custer
what did the Natives worship
sun
which battle had no native survivors
Wounded Knee
War hero; he could try to run in any party and he would win
Ulysses S. Grant
Construction of the transcontinental railroad
Credit Mobilier
what was the Teapot Dome Scandal
the Drilling of oil
where was the first oil in America found
Pennsylvania
Keep of the black people and slaves in order
Jim Crow Law
Gave white people authority over black
Black Code
what Nathan Bedford Forrest famous for
The KKK
What was Nathan Bedford Forrest’s wife nickname and why was she called that
Lemonade Lucy
She would not serve anything stronger than lemonade