U.S. History ll

americans constitution has been ratified

27 times in over 230 years

first Ten Amendments is called

Bill of Rights

11th amendment

any of the U.S can be sued

12th amendment

vice and president chosen by electoral college

13th amendment

end of slavery ; december 1865

14th amendment

defines citizenship

15th amendment

black can vote

andrew jackson

lincoln’s vice president; impeached but not removed

Civil War

April 12,1861 to April 9,1865

The Reconstruction

Lincoln’s Plan of Amnesty

Succeds

when a state breaks or separates from the U.S.

Civil War cause?

keep the U.S. intact

Republicans

wanted presidency

Democrats

end of reconstruction

1862 The Pacific Railroad Act

U.S. help 2 companies build a railroad across

The Treaty of Laramie 1868

permanent reservation for the Sioux Indians

challenges facing U.S. after reconstruction

population, agriculture, geography

Sharecroppers

Tenant farmers

Pine Ridge Reservation

Home of the Dakota Sioux

Reservation

to a community of native americans

The Indian Appropriations Act of 1851

resettle native americans throughout the U.S.

Compromise of 1877

between democrats and republicans

Lincoln’s 3 acts of 1862

Emancipacion Pro,Homestead Act, Pacific Railroad

language of treaty of laramie 1868

Fork Tongue

after civil war U.S. entered

panic ; economic depression

Wovoka 1889

started Ghost Dance Religion

Sitting Bull (major chief if Dakota Sioux)

killed in 1890, captured in 1881

Crazy horse ( major chiefs of Dakota Sioux)

killed in 1877

Dawes Act of 1887

no more reservations

Battle of Wounded Knee

last meaningful native american at armed resistance

Westward Expansion

america expand to West,1862-1890

Trust

companies work together, limits competition

William Henry Harrison

only 79 days in office (shortest time)

Franklin Roosevelt

elected 4 times (longest time)

Guites shot Garfield

July 2,1881 washington train station

1) Lincoln

first republican president

2)Jackson

impeached but not removed

3)Grant

accepted lees surrender, ended civil war

4)Hayes

the compromise

5) Garfield

assasinated after 4 months by Charles

6) Arthur

known as elegant arthur

7) Cleveland

first democrat after civil war

8) Harrison

grandson of previous president

The U.S. claimed

sympathetic to Cuban Rebels

Feb 18, 1898

USS Maine exploded

Rough Riders

crew by Theodore Roosevelt

Fords Theater in Washington

April 14,1865 lincoln’s asassinated

Ulysses Grant

leader f the army of the north

Robert E Lee

highest ranking officer within southern army