History Test 5 | Chapter 8

Vocabulary practice flashcards covering key historical figures, legislation, and events from Chapter 8 of History Test 5.

Chief Crazy Horse

Led the Sioux nation in the Battle of Little Bighorn.

Indian Reorganization Act

Made large areas of land available to Native Americans.

Carpetbaggers

Northerners who helped rebuild the South.

Wounded Knee Massacre

Incident in which 200 people from the Lakota tribe were killed by the U.S. Army.

Great Plains

Region known as the "Breadbasket of America."

Hiram Rhodes Revels

America’s first Black senator.

Department of Justice

Created to ensure the fair treatment of freedmen.

Ulysses S. Grant

Signed bills to set aside land for Yellowstone National Park and created the National Weather Bureau and Department of Justice.

Immigrants

Hired to build the transcontinental railroad.

Transcontinental railroad

Improved transportation from coast to coast.

Dawes Act

Broke up tribal lands for anyone who would take up farming or ranching.

Cow town railroad presence

It is true that every cow town had a railroad.

Chisholm Trail

Route Texas cattlemen used to move their cattle toward the cow town of Abilene, Kansas.

Compromise of 1877

Brought an end to Reconstruction.

Oklahoma Land Rush

Rush to claim pieces of Unassigned Lands in the Oklahoma Territory.

Black Codes

Laws in Southern states that only Black Americans had to obey.

Cattle drive herding destination (truth value)

It is false that cattle were rounded up and herded to the nearest village in a cattle drive; they were driven to cow towns.

Radicals

Group within the Republican Party who wanted government control of Reconstruction.

Fifteenth Amendment (Voting clause)

Stated that no man could be kept from voting because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

Sharecropper

A person who farmed for a landowner to receive part of the crop’s profit.

Yellowstone

First national park.

Booker T. Washington

Founded Tuskegee Institute.

Hiram Rhodes Revels (Congressional milestone)

First former enslaved Black American who served in Congress.

Indian Citizenship Act

Made Native Americans citizens of the United States.

Range wars

Fights between Western farmers and ranchers over grazing and water rights.

Freedmen’s Bureau

Organized to provide food for freed slaves and any poor Southern family for one year after the Civil War.

Cow town

The nearest location to which cattle were rounded up and herded in a cattle drive.

Pony Express

Mail delivery using a relay system that was no longer needed after the invention of the telegraph.

Samuel Morse

Invented the telegraph.

Homestead Act

Allowed settlers to claim land if they would improve it and live on it for at least five years.

Indian reservations

Large sections of land set aside by the government for Native American tribes.

Civil Rights Act of 1866

Declared that all people born in the United States, except Native American, were citizens of the United States.

Reconstruction Act of 1867

Divided the Southern states into five military districts to aid in recovery during Reconstruction.

Conservatives

Wanted the states to make decisions on their own about recovery.