Reconstruction & Westward Expansion

Question 1

Reconstruction

Answer 1

The name given to time period after the Civil War where the US had to rebuild.

Question 2

Great Plains

Answer 2

Large grassland area west of the Mississippi River and East of the Rocky Mountains.

Question 3

Assimilation

Answer 3

A Plan for Native Americans to give up their way of life and become part of “white” culture.

Question 4

Homestead Act of 1862

Answer 4

An act passed that gave allowed any person 160 acres of free land in the Great Plains.

Question 5

Sitting Bull

Answer 5

A warrior and spiritual leader of the Sioux. He was most famous for defeating General Custer in the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876

Question 6

Dawes Act

Answer 6

A law made in 1887 that distributed Native Land to individual Natives rather than the collective tribe.

Question 7

Exodusters

Answer 7

The nickname given to black families who moved west after the Civil War.

Question 8

Vaquero

Answer 8

Spanish or Mexican cowhand.

Question 9

Longhorn

Answer 9

The primary breed of cattle used by ranchers in the Great Plains.

Question 10

Reconstruction Act

Answer 10

The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.

Question 11

Andrew Johnson

Answer 11

President who took over after Lincoln was assassinated and began the reconstruction of the US.

Question 12

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 12

18th President of the US and famous Civil War general.

Question 13

13th Amendment

Answer 13

This amendment abolished slavery.

Question 14

14th Amendment

Answer 14

This Amendment gave equal protection under the law regardless of race or gender.

Question 15

15th Amendment

Answer 15

this Amendment gave African Americans the right to vote.

Question 16

Klu Klux Klan

Answer 16

An organization whose goal was racial and religious purity in America

Question 17

Gilded Age

Answer 17

A term used to describe the late 1800’s. Gilded was meant to show how everything looked good on the outside but was very ordinary underneath.