History Ch. 8 (8.1-8.4)

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  1. 4. The company that operated banks, carried mail, and offered travel in the west by stagecoach.
  2. 10. the 18th president of the United States.
  3. 14. Former slaves who are freed by the emancipation proclamation and the 13th Amendment.
  4. 16. The group within the Republican Party that wanted the southern states to make decisions on their own about recovery.
  5. 17. Laws in the southern states that only black Americans had to obey.
  6. 19. A group within the Republican Party that wanted the government to control the recovery of the southern states from the Civil War.
  7. 20. The inventor of the telegraph
  8. 23. A person who farmed for a land owner to receive part of the crop profit.
  9. 24. The organization formed by Congress after the end of the Civil War designed to help provide for freed slaves and any poor southern family for one year.
  10. 26. the rebuilding of the south after the Civil War.
  11. 27. Southerners, who supported the union and joined with dishonest carpetbaggers to make a profit.
  12. 28. A government department created to ensure fair treatment to newly freed slaves.
  13. 29. The Central Prairie area of the United States, also called the breadbasket of America because of all the grain produced there.
  14. 30. an unjust treatment of another person because of a category, such as race or skin color.
  15. 31. Mail delivery using a relay system of horses and writers to deliver mail between Missouri and California in only 10 days.
  16. 32. Northern businessmen, named for the suitcases they carry, who traveled south to help rebuild the southern economy. And sometimes profited from the poor southern economy.
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  1. 1. The 17th President, became President after Lincoln’s death.
  2. 2. The law, declaring that all people born in the US, except for Native Americans, still living as tribes were citizens of United States was full and equal benefits of all laws.
  3. 3. the congressional bill that divided the southern states and into five military districts to aid in recovery.
  4. 5. A college founded in Alabama to educate black men and women.
  5. 6. The practice of separating people by skin color.
  6. 7. The educator who founded Tuskegee Institute.
  7. 8. to bring criminal charges against a public official.
  8. 9. Declared that no man could be kept from voting because of race, color or previous condition of servitude.
  9. 11. Declared that Freedman or citizens of the United States.
  10. 12. the first black American to serve in Congress
  11. 13. The agreement in Congress that brought an end to reconstruction.
  12. 15. The first former enslaved black American to serve in Congress.
  13. 18. America’s first national Park.
  14. 21. An organization created to track and predict weather patterns in the United States.
  15. 22. The bill, allowing a settler to claim up to 160 acres of land for a low price if they would improve the land and live on it for at least five years.
  16. 25. The 19th president of the United States, appointed due to the compromise of 1877