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  • Who killed the majority of buffalo and Native Americans?
    US ARMY/ TEXAS RANGERS/ Westward expansion/ Indian Removal act
  • What was the goal of the Ku Klux Klan
    To keep race's apart.... whites in power
  • What did the 15th amendment do
    Banned states from denying African American males the right to vote
  • After the Civil War ended white settlers moved towards the west causing the migration of this community?
    Native Americans
  • What became a point of conflict during Reconstruction by Andrew Johnson and his party?
    Denying Blacks the ability to hold political office
    Deny Blacks the ability to buy land
    Approved marriage between races
    Approved Blacks the ability to hold political office
  • What was Abraham Lincoln's main goal during the beginning of Reconstruction
    Unite the Country
  • What do you call a person that farms the land for his landlord to live on their property
    Tenant Farmer
  • What part of the South's economy began recovery first during Reconstruction
    Agriculture
  • Why did sharecroppers (most of them) live in poverty?
    They often owed landlords more than they made at the end of the year.
  • Name TWO things the Freedman's Bureau did to help the black community?
    set up schools, jobs, and courts to settle disputes, hospitals, food and supplies, reunited families
  • Why did Texas feel the pain after the Civil War had ended
    The lost all their free labor
  • What is a sharecropper
    Black Americans who farmed land in return for a portion of the value of the crop.
  • What amendment banned the use of slavery and forced labor?
    13th
  • Black Codes were made to do what?
    Deny African American Rights
  • The Constitution of 1866 was amended in Texas for what reason?
    To keep control over the Freedmen
  • What were enslaved people who had been freed by the war called?
    freedman
  • What did the 15th Amendment do?
    Gave black the right to vote
  • Which of these is NOT a reason why the Freemen's Bureau was created?
    Education
    Tenant Farming
    Unite Families
    Food and Supplies
  • Name 3 methods southern states used to prevent African Americans from being treated equal.
    The grandfather clause, poll tax, literacy tests, Jim Crow laws, sharecropping, segregation, black codes, KKK
  • Who was John Wilkes Booth
    assassinated Abraham Lincoln and was a Confederate sympathizer.
  • What is a poll tax?
    A personal tax to be paid before voting
  • Define segregation
    enforced separation of races
  • What amendment declared who a citizen was?
    14th Amendment
  • What were some of the KKK tactics to instill fear into African Americans and their sympathizers.
    Ride at night, yelling threats, burning black houses/schools/churches/business, burn wooden crosses.
  • What holiday celebrates the moment most southern states acknowledge the freedom of blacks
    Juneteenth
  • Who was Andrew Johnson?
    He was Abraham's Vice President and became president after Lincoln's death.
  • Who were excluded from citizen rights in the 14th amendment?
    Women and Native Americans
  • What did the 14th Amendment say?
    All people born or naturalized in the US are citizens
  • Why was the KKK formed?
    White southerners felt like their way of life was being threaten
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