Aftermath of Civil War and Homesteaders

Question 1

When was slavery abolished?

Answer 1

1864

Question 2

What amendment abolished slavery?

Answer 2

13th amendment

Question 3

Who became president in April 1865?

Answer 3

Andrew Johnson

Question 4

What was reconstruction?

Answer 4

Putting north and south together and allowing the south to self-regulate their reconstruction.

Question 5

What was his approach to the south?

Answer 5

Gave land back to original owners and pardoned them.

Question 6

How did he help southerners?

Answer 6

Pardon them and pass black codes.

Question 7

How did he not help black people?

Answer 7

Tried to veto the civil rights act.

Question 8

What were black codes?

Answer 8

Southern states had laws that segregated black people from white people.

Question 9

What was passed in 1866?

Answer 9

Civil rights act.

Question 10

What did (the thing passed in 1866) do

Answer 10

Protect black citizens

Question 11

What was the 14th Amendment?

Answer 11

Civil rights act which means everyone is a citizen regardless of race.

Question 12

What was Johnson’s and Southern states approach to it?

Answer 12

Johnson opposed it and southern states refused to ratify it.

Question 13

When was the first and second Reconstruction acts passed and what did they do?

Answer 13

1867- placed the south under military law.

1870- enforced the civil rights act or the southern states would lose their representation in the senate.

Question 14

What did the 15th Amendment do?

Answer 14

All citizens have the right to vote.

Question 15

When where all states re-admitted into the Union?

Answer 15

1870

Question 16

Who were the KKK?

Answer 16

a white supremacy group formed 1865

Question 17

2 positives of reconstruction?

Answer 17

Restored the US to a unified nation with a loyalty oath. The union now has been re-joined.

Question 18

2 negatives of reconstruction?

Answer 18

Some southerners and the KKK got away with it and they weren’t forced to band segregation so it didn’t happen

Question 19

When did the US government pass the Homestead act?

Answer 19

1862

Question 20

What were 2 qualifications of the Homestead act?

Answer 20

had to be a citizen and farm for 5 years.

Question 21

What did the first homesteaders live in and why?

Answer 21

Houses made out of soil - sod house

Question 22

How and why was the Homesteaders act extended in 1873 and 1877?

Answer 22

The Timbre Culture act 1873 and the Desert Land act 1877

Question 23

How did the HS solve the following? a- lack of water (how, who, when) b - lack of water (farming method and type of wheat) c- Fencing large areas (how, who when) d- plagues of grasshoppers e-Roots of the Prairies (how who when)

Answer 23

A- windmill water pump 1874 Daniel Halliday
B- dry farming, a top layer of dusty soil after its rained to keep the moisture in and Russian Turkey Red Wheat grain used.
C- barbed wire- 1874 Joseph Glidden.
D- ate everything 1871, 1874, 1875
E-sod buster- John Deer in the 1880s

Question 24

identify 2 problems with living in a sod house.

Answer 24

Dirty and damp

Question 25

Give 2 reasons to explain how the railroad encouraged settlement on the plains.

Answer 25

People could get across easily and go further , can get machinery and supplies.

Question 26

When was the transcontinental railway completed?

Answer 26

a883

Question 27

4 roles women did on the plains?

Answer 27

clean, gather crops, raise children, educate and make clothes

Question 28

one difference and 1 similarity between an Indian/Homestead women?

Answer 28

Indian women were treated as equals as they owned their own homes but Homestead women didn’t. Both were valued for their ability to produce children.