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History- Danowski
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Dawes Act | it was an act that was made to " Americanize" the Native americans |
| Sitting Bull | was a warrior, spirtual leader,and mediciene man. He was the leader of the hunkpapa sioux |
| Share cropping system | landowners divided up their land and gave to each worker |
| Radical Republicans | one of the congressional Republicans who wanted to destroy the political power of former slave holders to give African Americans full citizenship and the right to vote. |
| KKK | racist club members |
| George A. Custard | founded gold in the Black Hills |
| Ten- Percent Plan | the govenerment would pardon all Confederates who would sware allegiance to the Union |
| Impeachment | the process of accusing an official of wrongdoing |
| Reconstruction Act | this act divided certain states into 5 millitary districts |
| Grandfather clause | stated that if a white man failed the literacy test, that if he, his father, or his grandfather had been eligable to vote before Janurary 1st he could still vote |
| poll tax | a tax you had to pay if you wanted to vote. |
| Jim Crow laws | they were laws that segragated whites from blacks |
| sky scrappers | were buildings used to make more room in citties. |