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08 Heritage Studies5
Reconstruction and the West
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| carpetbagger | Northerner who moved to the South to get a government job after the Civil War |
| fraud | act of cheating to gain something unlawfully |
| impeach | to accuse a public official of wrongdoing while in office |
| scalawag | white Southerner who worked with Northerners during Reconstruction |
| segregate | to separate people from the rest of society because of differences such as skin color or religion |
| vigilante justice | when a person takes the law into his own hands or is in agreement with someone taking the law into his own hands but has no legal authority to do so |
| Ku Klux Klan | a secret group that arose in the South after the Civil War and used violent methods to prevent black people from exercising their civil rights |
| Andrew Johnson | vice president who became president after Abraham Lincoln died |
| cowboys | job branding cows that was often immigrants and black people |
| railroad | helped settle the West by bringing easterners west |
| Battle of the Little Bighorn | led by George Custer, Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse |
| common conflict in the West | conflict between ranchers and sheepmen |
| Thirteenth Amendment | outlawed slavery |
| Freedmen’s Bureau | provided food and clothing to freed slaves and poor white Southerners and set up schools for black people |
| Black Codes | laws that Southern states passed that limited the rights of black Americans |
| Fifteenth Amendment | prevented states from denying black people the right to vote |
| Jim Crow laws | laws that the Democrats passed during Reconstruction to segregate black people and discriminate against them |
| the Bible | influences people to support the equality of black and white citizens |
| Fourteenth Amendment | defended civil rights |
| Reconstruction Act of 1867 | passed by Congress to establish military control of states that seceded from the Union and to ensure that new governments had racial equality |
| how the westward expansion brought opportunity to some people and injustices to others | Many immigrants made a new life in the West through hard work. Native Americans suffered much injustice as they were pushed off their land. |
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