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History test
9/21/17
Question | Answer |
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What is the 13th amendment? | The 13th amendment freed slaves |
What was the 14th amendment? | The 14th amendment gave birthrights |
What was the 15th amendment? | The 15th amendment gave all men the right to vote |
What were Jim Crow Laws? | Segration laws |
What were Black codes? | Laws that limited freed slaves rights |
What was segregation? | The separation of blacks and whites |
What was the Dawe's Act? | Assimilation attempt Broke up reservations Homesteading for Indians (25 years of work vs 5 for whites) tried to force farming on NA Indian schools |
What was the Homestead Act? | A section of land (160 acres) was given to any white person who worked land for 5 years |
What was the Battle of Little Bighorn? | Gold was found on reservations so the NAs were told to move. NAs protested as a group, Clusters and his troops fought them and lost. The US gov't used this battle to confirm NA stereotypes that they were savage. The won the battle but lost the war. |
What was the Wounded Knee Massacre? | Sitting Bull arrested because of Ghost Dance. Lakota flee the reservation. &th Calvary sent out. 25 soldiers killed. 200 Lakota killed. |
Assimilation | Get something to be like us |
Plessy v. Ferguson | “Laws requiring the establishment of separate schools for children of each race were most common; however, was soon extended to encompass most public and semi-public facilities” separate but equal |
What were reasons to move west? | To get rich, religion, Homestead Act, etc |
Reservation | a place to set aside for a specific person/thing |
Manifest Destiny | U.S. and Native Americans did not agree with each other on land, democracy, economics, etc. |
What was the white man's conquest? | took NA land |
Significance of Transcontinental RR | caused expansion west, improved transportation, and hunts on trains |