American History U2 Vacab

Freedmen’s Bureau

Federal agency created to provide for freed enslaved people

13th Amendment

Abolished slavery

Radical republican

Group of republican political leaders dedicated to imposing harsh conditions on the states that seceded from the Union during the Civil War

14th Amendment

Guarantees due process and equal protection under the law

15th Amendment

Gives all adult males the right to vote

KKK

Group of white supremacists in the south who terrorized the newly freed slaves and tried to keep them from voting

Jim Crow Laws

State laws passed throughout the South to enforce racial segregation of public facilities

Compromise of 1877

The election of 1877 when the republican candidate Rutherford B Hayes made a deal with the democrats where the democrats accepted Hayes as their president if republicans ended reconstruction and removed the troops from the south

Plessy v. Ferguson

Supreme Court ruled that segregation didn’t violate the 14th amendment if the facilities were separate but equal which further institutionalized racism at the federal level

Booker T Washington

Promoted vocational education for Black people and believed they should accept Jim Crow and segregation

WEB DuBois

Was a social activist who earned his PhD from Harvard and wanted all African Americans to get an education, have the right to vote, and have civil rights

Exoduster

African Americans who migrated from the south to the West after the civil war in hopes of escaping racism in the south

Manifest Destiny

Belief that the US was meant to expand from the east to the west

Homestead Act

Law that gave 160 acres of land to people willing to live on and cultivate it for 5 years

Transcontinental railroad

Rail link between eastern and western US

Reservation

Land the federal government required Native Americans to live on

Sitting Bull

War chief and spiritual leader who became the first ever chief of all Lakota Sioux bands in the 1860s

Battle of Little Bighorn

Battle because gold was discovered in the Black Hills and settlers wanted to mine it

Assimilation

Absorbed into the main culture of a society or group

Dawes Act

Law that distributed reservation land to Native Americans to encourage assimilation to a farming lifestyle, and were required to live there for 25 years

Wounded knee 1890

symbolic end of the Indian wars when the US army killed about 300 native Americans while trying to capture and disarm the Native Americans

Open range system

Method of fancying where the rancher let their livestock to roam and graze over a vast area of grassland

Las gorras Blancas

Group of Mexican Americans living in New Mexico who attempted to protect their land and way of life from the white landowners

Billy the kid

Teenage cowboy and fugitive living in Arizona and Mew Mexico, was charged with murder, but escaped and evaded capture for years until he was eventually shot and killed at age 21