US History Midterm

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Across
  1. 3. Belief that assimilating immigrants into US Society would make them more loyal citizens
  2. 7. Expansion of cities and or an increase in the number of people living in them
  3. 9. The process of bringing together people of different races, religions, social classes
  4. 11. ______ Republicans- Group of Republican Leaders dedicated to imposing harsh conditions on the states that had seceded from the Union
  5. 13. ______ Exclusion Act- 1882 Law prohibiting the immigration of Chinese laborers
  6. 15. Public lands reserved for Native American and required to live by FED law
  7. 16. _____-range system- Method of ranching in which the rancher allowed his or her livestock to roam and graze over a vast area of grassland
  8. 17. ______ ______ Massacre- Colorado militia attacked a camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, come of home were under US Army protection
  9. 18. Laws that restricted African Americans rights and opportunities (TWO WORDS)
  10. 19. Negative term for a southern white who supported the Republican Party after the Civil War
  11. 20. _________ Amendment- Constitutional Amendment guaranteeing voting rights to all makes regardless of race
  12. 21. Land designated by the FED for building schools and other public utilities (TWO WORDS)
  13. 23. Era post US Civil War in which FED GOV controlled the state that has seceded from the Union
Down
  1. 1. ______ system- Practice of the political party in power giving jobs to its supporters rather than those with merit or qualifications
  2. 2. Physical separation of into different groups based on race, religious, gender
  3. 4. _________ Amendment- Constitutional Amendment guaranteeing full citizenship and rights to every person born in the US, protected by due process and guarantee equal protection of the law.
  4. 5. ________ railroad- Rail link between the Eastern and Western US
  5. 6. A negative term for Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War
  6. 8. ______ Bureau- FED agency created to provide aid for emancipated slaves
  7. 10. ____-_____ Bill- Law that required a majority of prewar voters in Confederate states to swear loyalty to the Union before restoration could begin. (TWO WORDS)
  8. 12. African Americans who migrated form South to the East after the Civil War
  9. 14. _______ Act- 1862 gave 160 ACRES of land to persons willing to live and cultivate it over 5 years
  10. 22. Multi-story Housing buildings divided into apartments to house as many people as possible, no running water, no sewage