Test: Reconstruction and Western Movement
About this set
Created by:
hcps-scottpc on January 6, 2012
Subjects:
Description:
Quizlet for Burgess test 1/9
Classes:
School Discussion, RIP FELLER PERIOD 2
Log in to favorite or report as inappropriate.
Order by
44 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Lincoln | Don't punish the South, 10% loyalty oath, no punishment for leaders, not implemented, South supported this plan ONLY |
| Johnson | Ratify 13th amendment, punish plantation owners and confederate leaders, loyalty oath, noth implemented |
| Radical Republicans | Ratify 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, make it difficult for the South to return to the union, military occupation, yes-implemented |
| 1865-1877 | Reconstruction period |
| April 14, 1865 | Lincoln's assassination |
| 1877 | Compromise of ____ ends Reconstruction |
| 1865 | The year the KKK was created |
| January 1, 1865 | Date of eligibility for people to vote under grandfather clause |
| 1865-1890 | Western Expansion period |
| 1862 | Year of the Homestead Act |
| 1890s | By this time, there was no more frontier |
| 1877-1970 | The period when Jim Crow Laws were in action |
| 1876 | Year Rutherford B. Hayes was elected President |
| Wade-Davis Bill | Same as the Radical Republican plan |
| Johnson | Impeached because Radical Republicans don't like him |
| 13th amendment | Abolishes slavery |
| 14th amendment | Everyone should be equal under the law, regardless of race |
| 15th amendment | African American men are given the right to vote |
| Compromise of 1877 | Hayes is president (Republican), Reconstruction ends in the South |
| Black Codes | Laws in the South that restrict movement, economic rights |
| KKK | White Supremacy group, intimidation in the South |
| Jim Crow | Segregation in education, public places, voting |
| Literacy Test | Must be able to read to vote |
| Poll Tax | Pay a tax to vote |
| Grandfather Clause | If you have a grandfather that could vote prior to January 1, 1865, you can vote |
| African Americans, Immigrants, Southerners | 3 groups that moved west |
| To escape segregation | Why did African Americans move west? |
| To get land | Why did Immigrants move west? |
| The South is poor and damaged | Why did the Southerners move west? |
| Transcontinental Railroad | Connects the Mississippi with the Pacific Ocean, people can move west more quickly |
| Homestead Act | You get 160 acres of land per head of household if you move west |
| McCormick | Created the mechanical reaper |
| John Deere | Created the plow |
| Great Land Race | People race for sections of land to claim |
| Cowboys | Herd cattle to the market, 14 hour days, dangerous conditions |
| 25% African American, 16% Mexican, the rest are young white men | Racial breakdown of cowboys |
| Sodbusters | Farmers, families, live in settled communites of sodhouses and farms |
| Barbed wire, settlement of the Rocky Mountains, valleys in the West, 1890s, development of towns | What ended the frontier? |
| Buffalo | The destruction of the _______ destroyed the Native Americans. Relied on them for clothing, food, housing, and worship |
| Battle of Little Bighorn | General Custer and the 7th Calvary are wiped out by Sioux Indians at the __________ |
| Massacres at Wounded Knee and Sand Creek | US army retaliates by killing old people, women, children, and other natives |
| Lee | Not for secession, but he will not go against Virginia, General of the Army of Northern VA, Only lives about 10 years, President of Washington College |
| Grant | Failed at business prior to the War, also a graduate of West Point, General in the Western theatre and then Lincoln makes him General Army of the Potomac, President of the US after the war (during most of Reconstruction) |
| Fredrick Douglass | Slave who buys his freedom, becomes an abolitionist. During the War, he continues as an abolitionist, pushes Lincoln for Emancipation Proclamation, bringing Free Blacks into the Union Army. After war he is an ambassador to Haiti |
First Time Here?
Welcome to Quizlet, a fun, free place to study. Try these flashcards, find others to study, or make your own.
Completed “Learn” mode
septemberswimmer , duffiehr , hcps-scottca1 , hcps-scottpc , hcps-moorerm1 , hjr , hcps-fleminghk