- One of the reasons the steel industry boomed in the United States is that the U.S. had all the required natural resources. One of the largest deposits of iron ore was found in the Mesabi range of ___________.
- How was the Radical Republicans' plan for Reconstruction(Wade-Davis Bill) different from that of President Lincoln?
- 5. period of rebuilding and reconnecting the nation after the Civil War
- After the Civil War, most African Americans worked in what part of the economy?
- In order to give former slaves the opportunity to provide for themselves and their families, General Sherman promised to give freed slaves.......
- The election of 1876 marked the first time that a candidate had __________ and became president.
- 2.many poor white and black Americans could not afford this requirement to vote
- The difference between sharecropping and tenant farming is that in sharecropping, the landlord got a percentage of the sale price of your crop; while in tenant farming, the landlord was paid a flat rental fee and the farmer would usually keep more of the profits of their labor.
- President Ulysses S. Grant faced a large defection of libral Republicans. His major opponent was ___________ who died between the popular vote and the electoral vote. This split the electoral vote giving Grant a decisive win.
- Home rule gives state the ability to run their government without federal intervenion.
- 1. an African American civil rights leader who campaigned against lynching in her book "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in all its Phases"
- 4. a labor system that forced workers into slavery to pay off debts to an employer
- The first black college in the south was ________, which was established by the American Baptist Home Missionary Society in 1865.
- 6. Congressional Republicans who wanted to punish the South for the war and give African Americans citizenship and the right to vote
- _________ became the first African American to serve in either house of Congress when he was elected to the US Senate in 1870.
- Although the Freedmen's Bureau worked to reunite African American families who had been separated under slavery, only a few were able to reunite.
- In the years following Reconstruction several restrictions were placed on African Americans in an attempt to keep them from voting. These restrictions included:
- 3. Stated that no one could be kept from voting due to race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
- 3.this peaceful movement revitalized Native American culture
- 3. laws enacted in many southern states that discriminated against African Americans