Chapter 8 Flashcards
To separate people from the rest of society because of differences, such as skin color or religion
Segregation
To accuse a public official in office of wrongdoing while in office
Impeach
Amendment to the Constitution that outlawed slavery
13th Amendment
A Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War to get a government job
Carpet Bager
A constitutional amendment to defend civil rights
14th Amendment
A white Southerner who worked with Northerners during Reconstruction
Scaliwage
Laws passed by the Southern states that limited the rights of black Americans
Black Code
An act passed by Congress to establish military control of states that seceded from the Union and to ensure new governments had racial equality
Reconstruction of 1867
A constitutional amendment to prevent states from denying black people the right to vote.
15th Amendment
After Abraham Lincoln died, his vice president, ____________, became president.
Andrew Johnson
People who supported the equality of black and white citizens were influenced by the ___________.
Bible
Under the Reconstruction Act southern states had to write new ______ ___________ and the majority of voters had to approve the new constitutions, and the states had to ___________ the 14th Amendment.
States Constitutions
Ratify
The _______ was set up to provide food and clothing to freed slaves and poor white Southerners and to set up schools for black people.
Freedmans Bureau
Johnson was found not guilty during his impeachment trial by one vote in the __________.
Senate
What was true about sodbusters?
- built their houses out of sod
- used steel plows and windmills
What is true about cowboys?
- spent much time watching and waiting
- were often immigrants and black people
- burned brands onto their cows’ hides
What role did the railroad play in settling the West?
- carried cattle or beef east
- brought easterners west
What leaders were involved in the Battle of Little Bighorn?
George Custer, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse
Who was called “the Christian General”?
Oliver O. Howard
What is true about Chief Joseph?
- gained the respect of many Americans
- fought General Howard
- led the Nez Perces in a retreat toward Canada
What other types of conflict abounded in the West?
- conflict over fenced land
- conflict between ranchers and sheepmen
- conflict with outlaws who stole cattle
A secret group organized in the South after the Civil War that used violent methods to prevent black people from exercising their civil rights
Ku Klux Klan
The laws passed by the Democrats during Reconstruction to segregate black people and to discriminate against them.
Jim Crow Laws
When a person takes the law into his own hands or is in agreement with someone taking the law into his own hands but has no legal authority to do so
Vigilante justice
The battle in which George Custer was defeated by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse near the Little Bighorn River in Montana
Battle of the Little Bighorn
Democrats viewed _________ as the party of carpetbaggers, blacks and scalawags.
Republicans
Southern “redemption” meant that Southern _______ had won back control of their states.
Democrats
Indians who lived eat of the Mississippi were relocated to _____ ______.
Indian Territory
Americans called the ________ the “Great American Desert”
Great Plains
Whats the name of the group made up of the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw and Seminole Indians?
Five Civilized Tribes
How did the miners affect the west?
Miners found gold and silver and hoped to get rich quick. They would slap together a rough town around the mining site but would soon abandon these towns when the gold was gone. They became “ghost towns”.
What did God ordain to promote good and restrain evil?
Government
