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level: Level 1 of Lesson 8 - Reconstruction and Western Frontier

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level questions: Level 1 of Lesson 8 - Reconstruction and Western Frontier

QuestionAnswer
Reconstruction ActsPlaced 10 confederate states under military control; Blacks were enrolled as voters, and former Confederate leaders were excluded for a limited period; Denied the right to vote for men who had sworn to uphold the Constitution and then rebelled against the federal government;
SegregationThe forced separation of whites and African Americans in public places; Jim Crow laws: enforced segregation and became quite common in most southern states;
SharecroppingEconomic labor system where a sharecropper gives the majority of the harvested crop to the landowner; The ultimate goal of the sharecropper was to save enough money to be able to purchase their own land and start a farm —> very few were able to achieve this dream;
13th AmendmentAbolished slavery
14th AmendmentGuaranteed U.S citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and granted then federal civil rights
15th AmendmentDecreed that the right to vote could not be denied because of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude”
President Lincoln’s 10% Plan10% of voters swear loyalty and agree that slavery was illegal, then a new government could be formed (state back to the Union)
President Johnson’s Reconstruction PlanWealthy Southerners and former Confederate officials needed a presidential pardon to receive amnesty
Black CodesSoutherners created Black Codes, limiting the freedoms of African Americans, so their economy wouldn’t collapse
Radical RepublicansUsed Congress to block Lincoln’s approach to Reconstruction during the Civil War
CarpetbaggersRepublican Northerners who rushed to the south with possessions in carpet bags
ScalawagsSouthern white Republicans who betrayed the democrats in the south (voted for the republicans)
Plessy V. Ferguson (1896) Supreme Court caseAfrican American refused to live whites only train car, arrested for breaking state law (separate cars for blacks and whites)
Homestead ActThis act granted 160 acres to each settler who improved the land for five years.
Morrill ActThis act provided land grants to begin colleges of agriculture and engineering.
Dawes Act of 1887Attempted to assimilate Native Americans into a European-style culture
Barbed WireHelped the Farmers to prevent cattle and sheep from eating crops
Great Sioux War of 1876Series of battles and negotiations involving the Lakota and Northern Cheyenne and the United States
Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890A deaf tribesman was reluctant to give up his rifle, a fight started and he fired a shot, which caused the cavalry to open fire indiacriminately, killing all kind of people