🥕history test 12&13 papergame Flashcards
(29 cards)
Era after the civil war in which there was much ugly controversy between the north and the south
Reconstruction
Document in which Sioux agreed to live on reservation, failure because Sitting Bull never signed it
Treaty of Fort Laramie
Republican president who was instrumental in the compromise of 1877, ending reconstruction
Rutherford B. Hayes
Southern organization created after the civil war that instilled fear and intimidation among freed slaves
Ku Klux Klan
Post-civil war agricultural system in which farmers worked another person’s land and split the crops
Sharecropping (go back to article)
Poor weather conditions, living in soddies, physical/manual labor, fires, locusts, raids by Indians
Hardships on western farmers
Reconstruction amendment that abolished slavery
13th amendment
Policy in which a homesteader would gain 160 acres of free land in exchange for cultivating it
Homestead act
Policies in which farmers were supported through agricultural education/advancement of technologies
Morrill/Hatch acts
Reconstruction amendment that guaranteed voting rights to former slaves
15th amendment
Laws in the south during reconstruction that basically instituted slavery again
Black codes
Final major Indian conflict in which the US military massacred hundreds of Sioux Indians
Battle of Wounded Knee
Act passed by radical republicans that was harsh on the south after the civil war, killed by Lincoln
Wade-Davis Bill
Republican president/Union commander who was known more for his scandals during his presidency
Grant
Certain republicans after the civil war who wanted harsh penalties for the south during reconstruction
Radical republicans
Reconstruction plan that required 10% of a former confederate state to pledge allegiance to the US
Lincoln’s plan
Democratic president after lincoln’s death, disagreed with congress, was nearly impeached
Andrew Johnson
Northerners during reconstruction that moved to the south looking to possibly “get rich” after the war
Carpetbaggers
Act that offered assistance, especially education, to freed slaves and poor whites after the war
Freedmen’s Bureau
Act that forced Indians to “Americanize” or assimilate; took land away from them
Dawes Act
Act (NOT AMENDMENT) that granted citizenship to African Americans after the civil war
Civil rights act of 1866
Massacre of the Cheyenne Indians living on a reserve in Colorado by the US army
Sand creek massacre
Amendment that made all persons “born or naturalized in the US” citizens
14th amendment
Final document of reconstruction, Hayes to become president BUT had to fulfill democratic demands
Compromise of 1877