History Chapter 8 test 5

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Across
  1. 4. – person who farmed for a landowner to receive part of the crop profit
  2. 8. southerners who supported the Union and joined with dishonest carpetbaggers to make a profit
  3. 10. of 1866 – law declaring that all people born in the United States except for Native Americans still living as tribes were citizens of the United States with full and equal benefits of all laws
  4. 12. – U.S. Army General who died at the Battle of Little Bighorn
  5. 15. – former slaves who were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment
  6. 16. a railroad that crosses the United States from Coast to Coast
  7. 17. – law that broke up tribal lands into separates plots and offered them to any U.S. citizen or Native American family that would take up farming or ranching
  8. 18. – men hired by a rancher to care for cattle
  9. 20. – 17th president of the United States became president after Abraham Lincoln’s death
  10. 22. – first former enslaved Black American to serve in Congress
  11. 23. 19th president of the United States appointed because of the Compromise of 1877
  12. 26. institute founded in Tuskegee Alabama to educate Black men and women
  13. 28. – agreement in Congress that brought an end to the Reconstruction
  14. 29. government department created to ensure fair treatment to newly freed slaves
  15. 30. – rebuilding of Southern states after the Civil War
  16. 31. – trail for cattle drives from Texas to Abilene, Kansas
  17. 32. – the practice of separating people by skin color
  18. 35. – mail delivery using a relay system of horses and riders that delivered mail between Missouri and California in only 10 days
  19. 37. – first black American to serve in Congress
  20. 38. – 1890 incident in which over 200 Native American men, women and children from the Lakota tribe led nu Chief Big Foot were killed by the Us Army
  21. 40. 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 5 years
  22. 42. – place where a Union Pacific train traveling west and a Central Pacific train traveling east met; marking the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
  23. 43. – areas of Oklahoma Territory that were not assigned to Native American Tribes
  24. 44. – central prairie area of the United States called the “Breadbasket of America” because of all the grain produced there
  25. 45. – organization formed by Congress after the end of the Civil War designed to help provide freed slaves and any poor southern family for one year
  26. 46. – laws in the Southern States that only Blacks had to obey
  27. 47. Act – law that made large areas of land available to Native Americans
  28. 48. – declared that freedman were citizens of the United States
Down
  1. 1. – town with a railroad to transport cattle
  2. 2. group within the Republican Party that wanted the government to control the recovery of the Southern states from the Civil War
  3. 3. – unjust treatment of another person because of a category such as race or skin color
  4. 5. – inventor of the Telegraph
  5. 6. – western territory that was ready to be settled but had not yet become a state
  6. 7. group within the Republican Party that wanted the southern states to make decisions on their own about recovery
  7. 9. Northern businessmen named for the suitcases they carried who traveled to the South to help rebuild the Southern economy
  8. 11. large sections of land set aside by the U.S. government for Native American tribes
  9. 13. – fights between western farmers and ranchers over grazing and water rights
  10. 14. – battle led by Chief Crazy Horse in which an entire unit of U.S. Soldiers died also called Custer’s Last Stand
  11. 19. 18th president of the United States
  12. 21. – rush to claim pieces of the Unassigned lands in the Oklahoma Territory
  13. 24. America’s first National Park
  14. 25. – to bring criminal charges against a public official
  15. 27. – congressional bill that divided the Southern states into 5 military districts to aid in recovery
  16. 33. – declared that no man could be kept from voting because of race, color, or previous servitude
  17. 34. – leader of Sioux nation during the Battle of Little Bighorn
  18. 36. – company that operated banks carried mail and offered travel in the west by stagecoach
  19. 39. – process of herding cattle to the nearest Cowtown
  20. 41. – educator and founder of Tuskegee Institute