Freedmen’s bureau

Freedmen’s bureau

A federal agency created to provide aid for enslaved people who are emancipated.

13th amdendment

Abolishes slavery

Radical republican

A group of Republican political leaders, dedicated to imposing harsh conditions on the states that had succeded from the union during the Civil War.

14th amendment 

Guaranteed full citizenshi[ and rights to every person born in the United States protected due process and government equal protection of the law 

15th bamendment

The constitutional amendment, which guaranteed voting rights to all males regardless of race.

KKK

An American white supremacist terroist hate group

Jim Crow laws

State laws passed thought to enforce racial segregation of public facilities

Compromise of 1877

Agreement between southern democrats and allies of the republican ruthord b Hayes. Ended reconstruction 

Plessy v ferguson

Supreme court said segregation did not violate the 14th amendment. If there were separate but equal facilities for whites and black.

Booker t washington

The most famous African-American leader during the late 1800s. He though believed that people of colors should focus on getting a good education and segregation was OK

Web Dubois

Convinced African-Americans to stand up for their natural rights as they were most important and founded the NAACP

Exoduster

African-Americans, who migrated from the south to the west after the Civil War

Manifest destiny

The belief of the US was destined by God will from the Atlantic to the Pacific

Homestead act 

1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to persons willing to live on and cultivate it for 5 years

Transcontinental railroad

Rail link between eastern and the western United States

Reservation

Public lands wear native Americans were required to live by federal government

Sitting bull

War chief, an important spiritual leader who became the first ever chief of all Lakota Suk bands in the 1860

Battle of little binghorn

1876 battle which the siox defeated US Army troops

Assimilation

 Absorbed into main culture of society

Dawns act

Divided preservation land into private family land slots

Wounded knee

Confrontation between US Calvary and Sykes that marked the end of Indian resistance

Open range system

Each owner marked or branded the cattle so they could be identified

Las gorras blancas

Group that targeted the property of large ranch owners by cutting holes in barbed wire fences and burning houses

Billy the kid

American outlaw boy and the government in the late 1800s known for his violence behavior.