Reconstruction, Last Frontier, New Industries

Reconstruction, Last Frontier, New Industries

Chapter 11Lessons 1, 2, and 3

16th President; freed slaves.

•Abraham Lincoln

Private vote.

•secret ballot

Southern states were placed under this rule by the Reconstruction plan put forward by the Radical Republicans in Congress.

• U.S. military

These are the workers who farmed land owned by other people.

• sharecroppers

Impeached in 1867.

•Andrew Johnson

Laws that discriminate.

•black codes

Period when South was rebuilt.

•Reconstruction

Ex slaves rent farmland.

•sharecropping

Economic and population upswing.

•boom

This is who got land from the Homestead Act.

• Settlers who lived on the land for five years

This is why the United States wanted Native Americans to live on reservations.

• So settlers could use the land

When pioneers settle land in the west.• homesteading

Lost Battle of Little Big Horn.•Custer

Economic downturn.•bust

Where Indians were forced to live.

•reservation

Sioux chief at Little Big Horn.• Sitting Bull

These are the people the cattlemen had conflicts with during the Range Wars.

• farmers

African American cowboy.•Nat Love

Person in search of gold.•prospector

Right of workers to negotiate work.

•collective

bargaining

Pioneer in steel industry.

•Andrew

Carnegie

Two immigrant groups from which thousands of railroad workers came.

• Chinese

and Irish

This is how many hours a day people in mills and factories worked in the late 1800’s.

• 10 to 12

Organization of workers.

•labor union

Another name for oil.

•petroleum

Connected East and West Coast.

• Transcontinental

Railroad

This is where the Transcontinental Railroad was completed.

• Promontory, Utah

Tall buildings.

• skyscrapers

This person founded the first oil company.

• John D. Rockefeller

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