Chapters 3-6
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21 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Transcontinental Railroad | rail link between the eatern and western United States |
| Land Grant | Land designated by the federal government for building school, roads or railroads |
| Homestead Act | (1862) law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on it for 5 years, and build a house, well, and road. |
| Exodusters | African Americans who migrated from the sought to the west after the civil war |
| Reservation | Public lands where native Americans were forced to live by the federal government. |
| Assimilate | to be absorbed into the main culture of scoiety |
| Dawes General Allotment Act | (1887) law that divided reservation land into private family plots |
| Cash Crop | Crop grown for sale |
| Farmers' Alliance | network of farmers' organizations that worked for political and economic reforms in the late 1800s |
| Civil Right Act of 1875 | law that baned descrimination in public facilities and transportaion |
| Reconstruction | program implemented by the federal government between 1865 and 1877 to repair damage to the south caused by the civil war and restore the southen states to the union. |
| Freedmans Bureau | federal agency designed to aid freed slaves and poor white farmers in the south after the civil war |
| 13th Amendment | (1865) consititutional amendment that ambolished slavery |
| 14th Amendment | (1868) Constitutional amendment which defined citizenship and guaranteed citizens equal protection under the law. |
| 15th Amendment | (1870)constitutional amendment that guaranteed voting rights regaurdless of race or previous condition of sevatude |
| radical reconstruction | Reconstruction strategy that was based on severely punishing South for causing war |
| Impeachment | Accusation against a public official or wrongdoing in office |
| KKK | organization that promotes hatred and descrimination against specific ethnic and religious groups |
| Segregation | the separation or isolation of a race, class, or group |
| Sharecropping | Poor people contracted with landowners to work the land and get a share of the crop |
| Manifest Destiny | a belief shared by many Americans in the mid-1800s that the United States should expand across the continent to the Pacific Ocean |
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