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Bowman Study Guide
Question | Answer |
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discriminatory laws; restore many restrictions of slavery | Black Codes |
period of rebuilding after Civil War, 1865-1877 | Reconstruction |
Grants citizenship to African Americans; Forbids black codes or discriminatory laws | Civil Rights Act |
makes Congress responsible for Reconstruction | Wade-Davis Bill |
proposes own Presidential Reconstruction; States must swear allegiance, annual war debts, ratify 13th Amendment;Does not address voting rights,, land, laws for former slaves | Andrew Johnson |
Radical Republican leader | Thaddeus Stevens |
doesn’t recognize most new state governments; Divides South into military districts; Sets new conditions for reentry in Union | Reconstruction Act |
to help former slaves, poor whites; Gives social services, medical care, education | Freedmen’s Bureau |
led by Charles Sumner, Thaddeus Stevens; Want to destroy power of former slaveholders; Give full citizenship, suffrage to African Americans | Radical Republicans |
asks for end of settlements; Indian leader | Red Cloud |
Natives give up way of life and join white culture | Assimilation |
ritual to regain lost lands; Spreads among Sioux on Dakota reservation | Ghost Dance |
started a gold rush by reporting gold in the Black Hills; dies at the Battle of Little Bighorn | George Custer |
Cavalry kills 300 unarmed Native Americans | Battle of Wounded Knee |
makes African Americans full citizens; Most Southern states reject amendment; not ratified until 1868 | 14th Amendment |
gives voting rights to all, regardless of color | 15th Amendment |
confederate veterans group that turns terrorist; Grows rapidly; aims to restore white supremacy | KKK (Ku Klux Klan) |
passed in May 1872, Congress returned the right to vote and the right to hold federal and state offices | Amnesty Act |
the Southern Democrats’ term for their return to power in the South in the 1870s | Redemption |
the editor of the New York Tribune and a vocal pre-Civil War abolitionist, as their candidate. He had supported some Radical Republican causes—abolition and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments | Horace Greeley |
bank closings and the collapse of the credit system cost many people their savings, bankrupted hundreds of businesses, and put more than a third of the population out of work | Panic of 1873 |
eader of the Hunkpapa Sioux, does not sign the Treaty of Fort Laramie, defeated Custer at Battle of Little Bighorn | Sitting Bull |
1887, act to “Americanize” natives and break up reservations; Gives land to individual Native Americans, Sells remainder of land to settlers, Money for farm implements for natives | Dawes Act |
grasslands in the west-central portion of the United States | Great Plains |
major cattle route from San Antonio, Texas to Kansas City, Kansas | Chisholm Trail |
Troops kill over 150 Cheyenne, Arapaho at Sand Creek winter camp | Sand Creek Massacre |
a series of congressional measures under which the Democrats agreed to accept the Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes as president, even though he had lost the popular vote.r | Compromise of 1877 |
The measures included the withdrawal of federal troops from Southern states, federal money for improving Southern infrastructure, and the appointment of a conservative Southern cabinet member, | Compromise of 1877 |
the ability to run state governments without federal intervention. | Home Rule |