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ACS Reconstruct/West
ACS Chp. 8 History Reconstruction/West
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who became President after Lincoln died? | Andrew Johnson |
| Which amendment outlawed slavery? | 13th |
| What were laws that treated black Americans like they were still slaves? | "Black Codes" |
| What was set up to provide food, clothing, jobs and schools for black people and poor white Southerners? | Freedmen's Bureau |
| Which amendment defended Civil Rights? | 14th |
| What act divided the former Confederacy into 5 military districts and laid out the plan for reconstructing Southern states? | The Reconstruction Act |
| What is it to make an accusation of wrong-doing against someone in public office? | impeach |
| When Northerners came to help rebuild the South after the war and Southerners did not like them coming south. | carpetbaggers |
| White Southerners who supported Reconstruction and worked with Northerners during Reconstruction were called___. | scalawags |
| Which amendment said that states could not deny black people the right to vote? | 15th amendment |
| What does it mean to separate people from the rest of society because of differences such as skin color or religion? | segregate |
| What was the secret group that used violent methods to prevent black people from exercising their civil rights? | Ku Klux Klan |
| What is the act of cheating to gain something unlawfully? | fraud |
| What were laws that segregated black people from using the same public places that white people used? | Jim Crow laws |
| What is it when men in the community took the law into their own hands but they had no legal authority to do so? | vigilante justice |
| What did many black men, immigrants from Mexico and Europe, and easterners who moved west do for work? | cowboys |
| What played a large role in the settling of the West, and it brought cattle or beef from the West to the East? | the railroad |
| Which American Indians defeated General George Custer in the Battle of Little Bighorn? | Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse |
| ______________and ____________did not get along because they both needed grass to graze their animals? | Ranchers and Sheepmen |
| What brought opportunity to some people and injustices to others? | Westward Expansion |