Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan - ✔✔✔-10% plan; allowed rapid readmission of Southern states back into the Union
Radical Reconstruction Plan - ✔✔✔-Republicans who wanted to be harsh towards the south; their plan pardoned those who
took an oath of loyalty. states must adopt 14th Amendment
1866 Civil Rights Act - ✔✔✔-stated that all African-Americans were indeed US citizens; (could be repealed at some point-so
Republicans will pass 14th amendment to make it permanent)
ended hope of leniency on South - ✔✔✔-what was the effect of Lincoln's assassination?
rise of KKK, Jim Crow and other segregation laws in the South - ✔✔✔-what was the South's reaction to reconstruction?
Freedman's Bureau - ✔✔✔-Passed on March 3, 1865, by Congress to aid former slaves through education, health care, and
employment, it became a key agency during Reconstruction, assisting freedmen in the South
supremacy of national government over the states established - ✔✔✔-what was the outcome of the civil war?
Compromise of 1877 - ✔✔✔-President Hayes ends Reconstruction and pulls US troops out of South
13th Amendment - ✔✔✔-abolished slavery
14th Amendment - ✔✔✔-identified US citizens and claimed protection to all US citizens
15th Amendment - ✔✔✔-gave black men the right to vote
Sharecropping - ✔✔✔-debt peonage
-a system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small
portion of the crops
Western Settlement - ✔✔✔-minerals such ass gold, silver, and copper lured people to the west
Open Range - ✔✔✔-use of Texas longhorn and cattle drives
, invention of barbed wire in 1874 by Joseph Glidden - ✔✔✔-what helped bring an end to open range cattle drives?
barbed wire - ✔✔✔-what allows cattle to be fenced? (ended of open range)
1862 Homestead Act - ✔✔✔-settler obtained title to up to 160 acres by paying $10 registration fee and living on land for 5
years entitled settler to ownership; government encouraged white setlers to move west
Wounded Knee - ✔✔✔
Sand Creek Indian Massacres - ✔✔✔
=abandoned farms and more tenant farmers - ✔✔✔-what was the result of the 1880's wheat farmers mortgaging property?
1887 Dawes Act - ✔✔✔-allotted each Indian Household 160 acres of reservation land to farm remaining land would be sold to
whites and the money placed in a "trust" fund for Native Americans; tried to make farmers of Native Americans (it failed)
the tariff - ✔✔✔-what was the main source of government revenue up to 1860?
Alexander Graham Bell - ✔✔✔-invention of telephone
Thomas Edison - ✔✔✔-influence of light bulb
Gustavus Swift - ✔✔✔-refrigerated freight cars impact
Thomas Sholes - ✔✔✔-invention of typewriter
Transcontinental Railroad - ✔✔✔-Union Pacific hired Irish Immigrants and civil war vets while the Central Pacific hired Chinese
immigrants
Promontory Point, Utah in 1869 - ✔✔✔-where did the transcontinental railroad meet up?
Robber Barons - ✔✔✔-railroad entrepreneurs who were perceived as being greedy and corrupt