Westward Expansion 12-16 Flashcards
Was the federal gov getting more or less powerful?
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What was reconstruction?
It was the time while the country was joining back together.
What two presidents were impeached?
Andrew Johnson
What is a carpetbagger?
Notherners who moved to the south for economic gain
What ended reconstruction
The Compromise of 1877
How many slaves were freed
4 million
What was the case of plessy vs ferguson?
Plessy bought a ticket for the white car of a train and then he got arrested
Supreme Court decided every thing should be separate but equal
Brown vs. board of education
Black little girl walks farther to the black school than the white school.
Dad gets mad and has trial, ends segregation
What is a transcontinental railroad
A railroad that connects oceans
How did the railroads help the economy?
West sent livestock and grain and lumber
East sent manufactured goods
What was the gold fever?
When there was a ton of gold to mine
Lode
Valuable minerals in layers of rock
Bonanza
A rich mineral deposit
Boomtown
A town that has recently grown in population
What was the long drive?
When cattle were brought from the south to the north and many people joined in, when lots of people did it prices were lowered so many people stopped. Barbed wire was one of the things that stopped many people.
What are vigilante groups
They were people who took the laws into their own hands.
Three famous outlaws
John wesley hardin
Billy the kid
Jesse James
Three ways the native Americans used buffalo
Meat ate it
Hides clothing and teepees
Bones and horns tools and weapons
Who brought first horses
1500s spanyards
Treating of fort laramie
Americans and Native Americans
Set boundaries for tribes
Sand creek massacre
Disagreement is going on
Troops fired on Cheyanne 200 dead
2nd treaty of fort laramie
A treaty to stop fighting after the Sand Creek massacre
Gave land to the Native Americans in the black hills sd
Who was sitting bull
A Soix war chief and spiritual leader
Fought US troops
Out spoken critic of the US government
Geronimo
Chief
For 25 years he is trying not to get captured
For god and country Geronimo Geronimo Geronimo
Navy seal said it after he killed osama bin laden
Geronimo was code name for mission
Long walk
A walk the navajos had to take to get to a new reservation
300 miles
How many buffalo before and after
60,000,000
200,000 now
Little big horn
Custer and all his men were killed
Custer invaded Indian territory for gold
Sitting Bull killed all of them
Dawes Act
A law that divides tribal land up.
Wounded Knee massacre
Wavoka, a leader was leading the tribe in a ghost dance
The americans thought they were preparing for war
Americans killed 200 indians
Olaf olssens goal
Own their own home
What did the homestead act provide
160 acres of free land, had to farm it for 5 years
Three good inventions
Steel plow- john deere
Windmill
Reapers
What was the purpose of Grange?
To meet the social needs of farmers
Munn vs Illinois
Made it so the federal government could regulate the railroads
The great commoner
William Jennings Bryan
