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Southern whites responded to the end of slavery by enacting

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black codes

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Some Southerners used the term scalawags to describe

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Southerners who supported the process of Reconstruction

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Why was the election of 1812 significant

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The outcome was determined by an electoral commission established by Congress.

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This amendment granted citizenship to freed slaves

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Fourteenth

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Which of the following was NOT central to the life and culture of the plains indians in the 1800s

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land ownership

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The Republican state Reconstruction governments in the south made significant and long-lasting achievements in

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public education

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Which Republican beat Andrew Johnson to become president in the election of 1868

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Why were many congressional leaders unwilling to consider breaking up plantations and distributing plots for independent farms to freed slaves

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They hoped to restore cotton cultivation and restore American cotton exports

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The intent of the Homestead Act was to

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encourage American families to develop the West

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Which is the best word to describe President Lincoln’s original plan for Reconstruction, which Johnson largely followed?

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Lenient

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Which president did the House of Representatives impeach

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Andrew Johnson

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Why was it necessary to add the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution following the Civil War

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The Constitution had condoned slavery and allowed state voting

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To curb the violence of the Klu Klux Klan in the South, congress passed the

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Enforcement Acts of 1870 and 1871

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These members of the republican party left their northern homes after the war and moved to the South

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Carpetbaggers

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Intended to overrule and nullify the Dred Scott decision, congress drafted the

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Fourteenth Amendment

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Farmers who agreed to give most of their harvest to the landowners in exchange for use of the land, seeds, and tools were known as

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sharecroppers

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This stated that no citizen may be denied the right to vote “on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude

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Fifteenth Amendment

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This Amendment ended slavery in the United States once and for all

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13th

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The Reconstruction Act of 1867 did what?

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Created 5 military districts in the South

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What was the name of the first African American elected to the United States Senate

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Hiram Revel

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The time period after the Civil War during which the South rejoined the Union.

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1865-1877

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Senators and Republicans who wanted to protect the rights of African Americans, part of Congress

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Radical Republicans

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What is Lincoln’s Plan

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10% Pan: To rejoin the union southern states must approve of the 13th amendment and 10% of the voters must pledge loyalty to the Union

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What is Johnson’s Plan

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To rejoin the union southern states must accept the 13th amendment and are allowed to rule themselves

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What is the Radical Republicans Plan

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Split the south up into five military districts, southern states must grant voting rights to freed slaves and deny it to leading ex-Confederates

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What is Johnson’s Impeachment

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Johnson impedes reconstruction progress and when he suspends Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton, the House of Representatives file articles of impeachment against him

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provided food, clothing, shelter, and medical care to the former slaves and poor whites. They set up hospitals and schools and found jobs for many.

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Freedmans Bureau

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laws that limited the lives of African Americans

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black codes

29
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Granted citizenship to formerly enslaved people. Vetoed by Johnson

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Civil Rights Act of 1866

30
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This Constitutional Amendment ____________Abolished slavery throughout the United States _____________

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13th Amendment

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This Constitutional Amendment________granted citizenship to all people born or naturalized within the United States_________________

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14th Amendment

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This Constitutional Amendment _________Prohibits states from blocking the right to vote on account of race, color, or condition of servitude. Granted all men within America the right to vote.

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15th Amendment

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One type of farming system set up on plantations after slaves were freed. This farming system where the person working the farm did not get to choose what was planted and was paid by receiving a share of the crops to sell

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sharecropping

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One type of farming system set up on plantations after slaves were freed. This farming system where the person working the farm paid rent to the landowner for the privilege of planting and working the farm. This person was able to sell all of the crops.

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Tenant Farming

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Northerners who moved to the South for economic opportunities

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Carpetbagger

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Southern whites who voted Republican

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scalawag

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Famous Civil War General, Ran for president and won in 1868. Grant’s Administration was notorious for rampant corruption. Forced the assimilation of Native Americans through Grants Peace Policy.

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Ulysses S. Grant

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a secret terrorist organization that threatened, beat, and even killed African Americans to keep them “in their place.” They even attacked people who helped African Americans. In 1871, African Americans asked for protection from this group

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Ku Klux Klan

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During the election of 1876 it was debated on whether or not the electoral college votes from Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana should be counted. Congress awarded Rutherford B. Hayes the votes, winning him the election

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Compromise of 1877

40
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Funded by the government and built by Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroad companies. The transcontinental railroad connected the Eastern and Western United States allowing people and cargo to cross the country in 6 days

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Transcontinental Railroad

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African Americans who moved to the Great Plains and acquired a homestead to get away from the prejudice in the south

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Exoduster

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Push factors for settling out west:

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prejudice, lack of economic opportunities, and high taxes

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Pull Factors for Settling out west

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more freedoms, free land, and Economic Opportunities

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This act, signed into law by President Lincoln in 1862, provided 160 acres of land for those willing to settle out west

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Homestead Act

45
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Allowed States to sell federal land in order to establish colleges

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Morrill Act

46
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The vast grassland between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains.

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Great Plains

47
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Who were the Plains Indians

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Indians who lived on the Plains, Often were nomadic and followed the Buffalo. Greatly relied on the Buffalo for its meat, hide, and bones. Did not believe in the ownership of land and were communal societies.

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Someone who doesn’t settle down in one area, and is constantly moving often in pursuit of food or water.

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nomad

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Key Battles with the Plains tribes:

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Sand Creek Massacre, Little Big Horn, and Wounded Knee

50
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Converting people to your societal ways.

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assimilation

51
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An Indian movement from 1880-1890 that encouraged the return to traditional native american ways and in return the Bison will be resurrected and the White settlers will be forced from the plains

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Ghost Dance

52
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Sectionalized Indian reservation lands into individual landholdings in order to force the assimilation of Native Americans through the ownership of land. This also made it easier for Indians to lose land through corruption, Coercion, and violence.

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Dawes Severalty Act

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A section of land given to Indians to live on. Indians were not allowed to leave the section of land they were entitled to

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reservation

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Longhorn cattle in Texas were worth a large amount on the East Coast. Because railroads only crossed as close as Kansas, cattle ranchers had to herd their cattle North to the railroads where they could be sold and transported to the rest of the United States. This herding to the Railroads was known as the Long Drive

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Long Drive

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