westward expansion

13th Amendment

abolished slavery

15th Amendment

Forbidding any state from denying suffrage on the grounds of race, color, or pervious conditions of servitude

KKK

An American white supremacist terrorist hate group

Jim Crow Laws

State laws passed throughout the south to enforce racial segregation of public favoritism

Compromise of 1877

Democrats agreed to accept Hayes as the president and republicans agreed to remove US army troops from the south. This was significant because reconstruction ended

Plessy v. Ferguson

Supreme Court said segregation did not violate the 14th amendment if there were separate but equal facilities for whites and blacks

Booker T. Washington

The most famous African American leader during the late 1800’s who promoted vocational education

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

Homestead Act

A law that offered, at almost no cost, land plots of 160 acres to anyone willing to live on it for 5 years, build a home, and grow some crops

Battle of Little Bighorn

1876 battle in which the Sioux defeated U.S army troops

Dawes Act

Divided reservation land into private family

Billy the Kid

American outlaw boy and a gunman in the late 1800’s known for his violence behavior

Carlisle Indian Industrial School

It took the culture away from Indians