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HY-121 Exam 1-Perry13 Amendment (1865) - correct answer ✔✔Abolished slavery in the US
40 acres and a mule - correct answer ✔✔Special order #15 signed by William Tecumseh Sherman, gave
Africa Americans 40 acres and a mule
Civil Rights Act of 1866 - correct answer ✔✔passed the 14th Amendment, which guaranteed citizenship
for former slaves
15th Amendment (1870) - correct answer ✔✔Guaranteed former slaves right to vote by prohibited
voting restrictions based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude (slavery)
The KKK - correct answer ✔✔Organized in Pulaski, TN in 1866; they terrorized former slaves that held
political office
Sharecropping - correct answer ✔✔"Slavery by another name"
Election of 1876 - correct answer ✔✔Saw the candidate with the most popular votes fail to get elected
Redeemers/Bourbons - correct answer ✔✔Redeemers are southern, white supremacist, democrats who
wanted to limit the government's power
Convict Lease System - correct answer ✔✔"Has been described as the 'Re-enslavement' of African
Americans"
Maggie Lena Walker - correct answer ✔✔First female bank president in the US
-Was African American
, Booker T. Washington's Message - correct answer ✔✔In the Atlanta Compromise Speech Washington
implied a promise that African Americans would not overtly challenge the system of segregation
Plessy vs. Ferguson - correct answer ✔✔Established "separate but equal"
Ida B. Wells - correct answer ✔✔A committed black journalist who launched the international Anti-
lynching movement
The Plains Indians - correct answer ✔✔Most widespread presence of Native Americans in the west
The Buffalo/Bison - correct answer ✔✔The Buffalo/Bison provided the economic basis for the Plains
Indians way of life
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 - correct answer ✔✔Stated that no Chinese labor could enter the US
Bonanza Farms - correct answer ✔✔Large farms that covered thousands of acres and 100s of workers in
the west
The Homestead Act of 1862 - correct answer ✔✔Encouraged settlement of the great plains
The Romance of the West - correct answer ✔✔The interest in painting of the west inspired a growing
wave of tourism
The Virginian - correct answer ✔✔A novel by Owen Wister and in the novel the American Cowboy was
the most widely admired symbol in the US
The Frontier Thesis - correct answer ✔✔An argument made by Frederick Jackson Turner stated that the
distinctive qualities of American culture were formed in the West
Indian Peace Commission - correct answer ✔✔Indian Peace Commission creates reservations
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