Reconstruction Period

Question 1

13th Amendment

Answer 1

Diminished the existence of slavery in the United States, unless it was punishment for a guilty crime

Question 2

14th Amendment

Answer 2

Assured that all people born in the United States were citizens, and everyone was expected to have life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness unless they didn’t go through the process of law

Question 3

15th Amendment

Answer 3

The right to vote can’t be denied by race

Question 4

Freedman’s Bureau

Answer 4

A United States government agency that was created to provide relief to freed slaves. The Freedman’s Bureau set up schools and taught people how to read and write

Question 5

Black Codes

Answer 5

New laws used by the southern states to control African Americans

Question 6

Carpet Baggers

Answer 6

A name given by southerners to the northerners that went south to start new businesses or pursue political office

Question 7

Scalawags

Answer 7

Southern whites that opposed segregation during the Civil War

Question 8

Ku, Klux Klan

Answer 8

Known as the KKK. A secret society used to terrorize African Americans and their white allies

Question 9

Poll Tax

Answer 9

A personal tax to be paid before voting. It kept a few whites from voting and many poor freedmen from voting

Question 10

Literacy Test

Answer 10

A test people had to take to vote

Question 11

Grandfather Clause

Answer 11

Allowed a voter to avoid a literacy test if his father or grandfather had been eligible to vote before January, 1, 1867. African Americans were not allowed to vote before this date

Question 12

Jim Crow Laws

Answer 12

Laws that barred the mixing of races

Question 13

Sharecropper

Answer 13

A laborer that worked the land for the farmer who owns it, in exchange for a share of the value of the crop. This kept many African Americans in a cycle of poverty

Question 14

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Answer 14

Homer Plessy arrested for sitting in a coach marked “for whites only.” Separate but equal is equal

Question 15

How did the building of the Transcontinental Railroad help change cities like St. Louis, Chicago and Minneapolis?

Answer 15

Decreased the amount of isolation

Question 16

Where did the railroad begin?

Answer 16

Omaha, Nebraska

Sacramento, California

Question 17

What is Promontory Point?

Answer 17

The point where the two railroads meet

Question 18

Which cities was helped by the building of the railroad?

Answer 18

San Francisco, St. Louis, Chicago, and Minneapolis. San Francisco’s population increased from 1860 to 1890. These cities were helped because the railroad decreased the amount of isolation

Question 19

What happened to the buffalo population between 1800 and 1889?

Answer 19

Population decreased

Question 20

How was the explosion of population caused by the Transcontinental Railroad?

Answer 20

When the railroad was created, people began to settle around it. It took less time to travel to the west because of the railroad

Question 21

What meets at the Promontory Point?

Answer 21

The Central Pacific and the Union Pacific

Question 22

Battle in which the 7th Calvary was killed

Answer 22

The Battle of Little Bighorn-1876

Question 23

Animal that Native Americans had full dependence on

Answer 23

The buffalo

Question 24

All Native Americans were forced to move to

Answer 24

Reservations

Question 25

Ghost Dance

Answer 25

Worried Americans, it made them think that the Native Americans wanted war

Question 26

Wounded Knee Masacre

Answer 26

When Sioux begin to surrender weapons, a shot breaks out and US army fires into the Indian reservation. Sitting Bull was killed. South Dakota-1890

Question 27

Sitting Bull

Answer 27

Chief of the Sioux Indians

Question 28

Sioux (Lakota)

Answer 28

Last group of Indians to refuse to move to reservations. Sitting Bull was chief

Question 29

Homestead Act

Answer 29

1862-government gives land to anyone willing to work it. The people that accepted their offer were given 160 acres in the Great plains

Question 30

How were the conditions of the land in the Great Plains?

Answer 30

Land required deep plowing, and the work was tough

Question 31

Inventions created during this period

Answer 31

Barbed wire, and the steel plow

Question 32

John Deere

Answer 32

Man that moved to the Great Plains. He invented the steel plow to farm tough land

Question 33

Kind of houses in Great Plains

Answer 33

Sod Houses-No lumber/trees, so the people shaped mud and grass into bricks

Question 34

Sod Houses

Answer 34

Very strong and sturdy