Unit 1 Study Guide: Reconstruction - Westward Expansion

Suffrage

The 15th Amendment guaranteed this to Black men

Transcontinental Railroad

Began in 1862 and connected the Atlantic to the Pacific Coast

Federal organization to provide education and other services to formerly enslaved people

Freedmen’s Bureau

Jim Crow

These are laws that segregated people by race

Dawes Act

U.S. law designed to assimilate the Native Americans

Ghost Dance

Religious movement of the Native Americans that sought to bring back their old way of life

homestead Act

U.S. law that gave away 160 acres of free land

Subsidies

The U.S. government provided the railroad companies with these to encourage the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad

Literacy Test

This exam was used to deny Black people the right to vote in the South

Wounded Knee

Last major armed conflict (massacre) between the U.S. Army and Native Americans

Buffalo

Animal sacred to the plain Indians which was hunted to near extinction

Federal Troops

The compromise of 1877gave Rutherford B Hayes the Presidency, and in return he removed these form the South and ended Reconstruction

Disenfranchisement

To take away ones rigth to vote

Fourteenth Amendment

gave citizenship to Black Americans along with equal protection under the law

Reconstruction

Period immediately following the American Civil War that attempted to rebuild Southern society

Poll Tax

Law the required voters to pay a fee before they could vote

Slavery

13th amendment outlawed