Fourth Grade History Test #5

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Across
  1. 2. invented the telegraph
  2. 3. a group within the Republican party who wanted government control of Reconstruction
  3. 6. this act of 1867 divided the Southern states into five military districts to aid in recovery during Reconstruction
  4. 8. this was no longer needed after the invention of the telegraph
  5. 9. large sections of land set aside by the government for Native American tribes or "Indians" as they were often called
  6. 12. this act of 1866 declared that all people born in the United States, except Native Americans, were citizens of the United States
  7. 14. first former enslaved Black American who served in Congress
  8. 16. this of 1877 brought an end to Reconstruction
  9. 17. a bureau organized to provide food for freed slaves and any poor Southern family for one year after the Civil War
  10. 18. called the Breadbasket of America
  11. 20. what order are these in: American Civil War ends, Reconstruction of the South, Oklahoma Land Rush
  12. 23. this act made large areas of land available to Native Americans
  13. 25. this act allowed settlers to claim land if they would improve it and live on it for at least five years
  14. 26. the laws in Southern states that only Black Americans had to obey during segregation
  15. 27. hired to build the transcontinental railroad
  16. 28. Northerners who helped rebuild the South
Down
  1. 1. founded Tuskegee Institute
  2. 2. a person who farmed for a landowner to receive part of the crop's profit
  3. 4. created to ensure the fair treatment of freedmen
  4. 5. this amendment to the Constitution said no man could be kept from voting because of race, color, or previous condition of servitude
  5. 7. this act made Native Americans citizens of the United States
  6. 10. this railroad improved transportation from coast to coast
  7. 11. the trail or route Texas cattlemen used to move their cattle toward the cow town of Abilene, Kansas
  8. 13. this act broke up tribal lands for anyone who would take up farming or ranching
  9. 15. America's first Black Senator
  10. 19. led the Sioux nation in the Battle of Little Bighorn
  11. 21. over 200 Native American people were killed by the United States Army during this massacre
  12. 22. the first national park in America
  13. 24. in a cattle drive, cattle were rounded up and herded to the nearest one of these