Unit 1- Post Civil War: South & West

Question 1

What is Reconstruction?

Answer 1

the rebuilding of the US after the Civil War

Question 2

Why was rebuilding our nation so difficult?

Answer 2

everyone had different views on how to rebuild.

Question 3

What two items did the radical Republicans want from reconstruction that were so different?

Answer 3

granting black people citizenship and allowing black men to vote.

Question 4

What was the purpose of the Freedman’s bureau?

Answer 4

they provided necessities to blacks with new citizenship living in the US.

Question 5

What were black codes?

Answer 5

regulations that kept black people restricted from the amount of freedom and rights they had.

Question 6

What is the thirteenth amendment?

Answer 6

the abolishment of slavery

Question 6

What is the fourteenth ammendment?

Answer 6

anyone born in the US or naturalized is granted citizenship and has all rights.

Question 7

What is the fifteenth amendment?

Answer 7

all people, no matter their race, gender or religon, are allowed to vote.

Question 8

Why was president Johnson impeached?

Answer 8

He didn’t follow the Tenure Office Act (firing Civil officers without senatorial approval) and fired one of his secretary.

Question 9

What is impeachment?

Answer 9

The act of charging/removing a high official from office.

Question 10

What is sharecropping?

Answer 10

Renting of land to former slaves, the farmers got to keep some share of the crop.

Question 11

What were the enforcement Acts?

Answer 11

1-federal supervision of the election in southern states.
2- gave the president the power to send federal troops in areas where the KKK was active.

Question 12

What was the compromise of 1877?

Answer 12

ended reconstruction in the south with the removal of federal troops.

Question 13

What was the reservation system?

Answer 13

Plots of land assigned by the government for the native americans to live on.

Question 14

What occurred at sand creek?

Answer 14

The Colorado governer asked the native Americans to make peace with them, but instead the US army attacked them.

Question 15

What was the fetterman’s massacre?

Answer 15

Chief Red Cloud’s forces defeated a U.S. army detachment in Wyoming.

Question 16

What occurred at Little Bighorn?

Answer 16

The commander of the seventh Calvary divided his forces and attacked the lakota and Cheyenne tribes camped at Little Bighorn.

Question 17

What is assimliation?

Answer 17

Forcing one group to change more like the rest.

Question 18

What is the Dawes Act?

Answer 18

They made native Americans farm land, but it turned out as a disaster because they were not good at it.

Question 19

What occurred at the Battle of Wounded Knee?

Answer 19

The Lakota were told to stop doing the “Ghost Dance” by a government official. When they kept doing it, they saw it as a threat and were chased and killed by US troops.

Question 20

What is placer mining?

Answer 20

Using hand equipment to mine (pickaxes, shovels, pans, etc.)

Question 21

What were vigilante committees?

Answer 21

people who took the law into their own hands and punished wrongdoers. They were against the rule of law though, because they weren’t above the law.

Question 22

What was the trade route that became important to the beef industry?

Answer 22

Chisholm Trail

Question 23

What is long drive?

Answer 23

Where cattle could roam freely

Question 24

What new invention closed off the open range for the cattle ranchers?

Answer 24

Barbwire

Question 25

What is the homestead act?

Answer 25

For $10, a settler could file for a 160 acre homestead (
tract of public land available for settlement) and receive the title after five years.

Question 26

What are exodusters?

Answer 26

New settlers that were former slaves.

Question 27

Why did farmers begin to organize in the late 1800s against certain government policies?

Answer 27

Deflation caused them to have a short supply of money.

Question 28

What was the grange?

Answer 28

a national farm organization. They used marketing strategies during the rescession to get more sales.

Question 29

What is the populist party?

Answer 29

A political party mostly formed by farmers. They wanted to have the unlimited coinage of silver, an 8 hour workday, and other things that would positively affect all farmers.

Question 30

What is the gold standard?

Answer 30

People who agree with it are known as goldbugs, they agree that gold should be the sole basis of the country’s currency.

Question 31

What is bimetallism?

Answer 31

People who agree with it are known as silverites, believed coining silver in unlimited amounts
was the answer to the nation’s economic crisis.