Across
- 1. The biggest problem facing midwest farmers
- 3. Bill that promised Indians tracts of land to farm in order to assimilate them into white culture. The bill was resisted, ineffective, and disastrous to Indian tribes
- 6. A railroad that started in Omaha, NE that employed Civil War veterans, freed slaves and European immigrants
- 9. connected the two railroad across the United States at Promontory Point, Utah
- 13. A ritual the Sioux performed to bring back the buffalo and return the Native American tribes to their land.
- 14. The period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union
- 17. Rich deposits of silver found in Nevada
- 19. Sacred land of the Sioux Indians
- 20. Who were Poll Taxes designed to prevent from Voting
- 28. A northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War; especially one who tried to gain political advantage or other advantages from the disorganized situation in southern states
- 30. Lincoln's Vice President 1864
- 31. Amendment that abolished slavery
- 32. Government agency founded during Reconstruction to help former slaves and poor whites
- 33. Discovered in the Black Hills / led to increased conflict with Natives
- 34. Divided the South into 5 military districts and explained requirements for the former Confederate States to be readmitted to the Union
- 35. Democratic presidential candidate in 1896, advocated free silver
- 37. A secret society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep African Americans from obtaining their civil rights through Reconstruction.
- 38. law that banned discrimination in public facilities and transportation - ruled unconstitutional
- 39. Law that gave African Americans citizenship and guaranteed them the same legal rights as white Americans
- 40. The railroad company based on the West Coast that helped build the transcontinental railroad, primarily through Chinese immigrants
- 41. Time period when man Laws were designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites
- 42. Southern farmers rented land and decided what to plant and when to harvest
Down
- 1. Completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah. It linked the eastern railroad system with California's railroad system, revolutionizing transportation in the west
- 2. Johnson's plan with no revenge on the South; lenient policy after Civil War
- 4. 1890 confrontation between U.S. cavalry and Sioux that marked the end of Indian resistance
- 5. Deal that enabled Hayes to become President in return for the end of Reconstruction
- 7. Originally a social organization between farmers, it developed into a political movement for government ownership of railroads
- 8. 1862, this law distributed millions of acres of western lands to state governments in order to fund state agricultural colleges.
- 10. A vast area of grassland owned by the government where ranchers could graze their herds for free
- 11. U.S Army Colonel Chivington led a surprise attack on a peaceful Cheyenne settlement. Chief Black kettle tried to surrender. The U.S army killed hundreds of Cheyenne during the conflict
- 12. Constitutional Amendment that declared that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws
- 15. Southern whites who supported Republican policy through reconstruction
- 16. A tax as a requirement for the right to vote
- 18. Used to fence in land on the Great Plains, eventually leading to the end of the open frontier.
- 21. Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War
- 22. States cannot deny any person the right to vote because of race.
- 23. Congressional plan that was based on severely punishing South for causing war
- 24. 1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for five years
- 25. The Populists wanted to do this in addition to backing money with gold in order to cause inflation which would help the farmers pay off their debts.
- 26. Agricultural plan developed in the South after the Civil War; landowner provided tenant with house, tools, etc. in exchange for a "share" of the crop. Often resulted in debt for the farmer.
- 27. American writer that worked as a reporter during Comstock Lode (Samuel Clemens)
- 29. The movement to increase farmers' political power and to work for legislation in their interest.
- 36. General Custer and his men were wiped out by a coalition of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse