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What did the 13th Amendment do?
Abolish Slavery
When was the 13th amendment created?
1865
Who was the final Confederate General in the Civil War?
Robert E. Lee
Who was the victorious Union General in the Civil War?
Ulysses S. Grant
Where did Robert E. Lee surrender?
Appomattox Court House in Virginia
When did Lee surrender to Grant?
1865
When was Lincoln assassinated?
1865
Who took over after Lincoln's assassination?
Andrew Johnson
What was included in Johnson's restoration plan?
A plan to bring the south back into the Union, he issued pardons to most Confederates, and required states to ratify the 13th amendment.
What were the black codes?
Codes that twisted the law to limit the rights of freed blacks.
What was the first state to establish a system of Black Codes?
Mississippi
What was the goal of the Freedman's Bureau?
To help freed blacks find homes and jobs
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1866 grant?
Granted citizenship to all people born in the US and granted freed slaves the right to own property, sue, and serve as witnesses.
What did the 14th amendment do?
Enforced the civil Rights Act, giving blacks the same rights as other races. Most southern states, however, rejected it.
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
A white supremacist group
When was the Ku Klux Klan founded?
1866
What were the Military Reconstruction Acts?
It divided the former Confederacy into 5 military districts. Each southern state was required to create new government and state constitutions before applying for readmission to the Union
When was Nebraska granted statehood?
1867
What was the Tenure of Office Act?
A law requiring the president to receive congressional approval before removing someone from office
Describe how Alaska became a state.
The US purchased it from Russia under direction of Secretary of State William Seward, but it's lack of "importance" gave it's purchase the name "Seward's Folly"
What got Johnson impeached?
He violated the Tenure of Office Act, firing Edwin Stanton from his Secretary of War job.
When was Johnson impeached?
1868
When was Ulysses S. Grant elected?
1868
When was the first railroad created?
1868
Where was the first transcontinental railroad completed?
Promontory Point, Utah
Who were the two main causers of the financial panic of 1869?
James Fisk and Jay Gould (they made an unsuccessful attempt to corner the U.S. gold market)
When did Wyoming grant women's suffrage?
1869
What did the 15th Amendment do?
Give black men the right to vote
When were the last southern states readmitted into the union?
1870
Who was the first black senator?
Hiram Rhoades Revels (Mississippi)
What did the Enforcement Act do?
Allow for intervention in the Ku Klux Klan
What did the White v. Flood Supreme Court Case establish?
A precedent for segregation in schools
What did the Indian Appropriations Act do?
Labeled all Native Americans as wards of U.S. government
Who was William Marcy "Boss" Tweed?
A politician who ran the corrupt political machine, exposed by the New York Times
When was the Great Chicago Fire?
1871
What was the "greenback"?
Federally-issued paper money
What did the Amnesty Act do?
Returned voting rights to most ex-confederates
What was the first national park?
Yellowstone
What were the Slaughterhouse Cases?
Cases that acknowledged authority of state governments over individuals, which limited effects of the 14th amendment
What caused the Panic of 1873?
Over-speculation of Railroads
What occured at the Tompkins Square Riot?
Police physically beat unemployed demonstrators
Which scandal were Grant's associates indicted in?
The Whiskey Ring Scandal
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1875 do?
Enacted pentalties for racial discrimination at inns, theaters, public transit, and other public places. It prevented discrimination in employment, and established the rights of African Americans to serve on juries
Describe the Battle of Little Big Horn
Indian Chiefs Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse defeated Gen. Custer's forces in Montana
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
When was Colorado granted State Hood?
1876
Who was elected President in 1876?
Rutherford B. Hayes
What did the Hayes-Tilden Compromise do?
Awarded Hayes presidency in return for the removal of troops from the south, ending reconstruction
What did the Munn v. Illinois case decide?
That private industries that affect the public are still subject to government regulation
What riots occured in California in 1877?
Anti-Chinese Riots
Nez Perce
Indian leader who's tribe in Idaho was forced onto Kansas reservations by the US
What did the Desert Land Act do?
Gave settlers cheap land in return for irrigation
Reconstruction Era
~1865-1877
~Lincoln and Radical Republicans clashed over plans for reconstruction
~13th-15th Amendments pass
~Railroad expansion facilitates movement between eastern and western regions
~Settlers attack and displace Native Americans
Gilded Age
~1878-1900
~Era of Big Business
~Western frontier quickly grew --> Native Americans forced to assimilate or relocate
~Reconstruction policies leave African Americans behind
~Development of cites due to immigration
Timber and Stone Act
Opened land in CA, OR, NV, and WA to be purchased by settlers
Exoduster Migration
Blacks moved to Kansas to escape democratic control of the south
Bland-Allison Act
Required purchase of silver by treasury
Susan B. Anthony
Women's suffrage activist
Who invented the electric light bulb?
Thomas Edison
When was Garfield elected?
1880
Chester A. Arthur
Became president in 1881 after Garfield's Assassination
Booker T. Washington
Principal of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, which provided vocational training for blacks
Henry James
Published The Portrait of a Lady
Chinese Exclusion Act
Banned Chinese immigration for 10 years
What did John D Rockefeller form?
The Standard Oil Trust
What effect did the Brooklyn Bridge have on NYC?
It further increased the population expansion
The Northern Pacific Railroad spanned from _______ to _______
Chicago; Seattle