Reconstruction/Westward Expansion

Congress felt Johnson's plan was too lenient on the South.

Johnson's Plan was too harsh on the South.

Johnson's plan took power away from Republicans.

Johnson's plan gave freedmen the right to vote.

To tax income of African Americans.

To ban African Americans from receiving an education.

To bar African Americans from voting.

To tax African Americans on property.

Segregation violated the 14th amendment.

Plessy v. Ferguson ruled that segregated facilities were unconstitutional.

Segregation was constitutional except in public schools.

Plessy v. Ferguson ruled that segregation in public places was constitutional as long as the separate facilities were equal.

Literacy tests

Poll tax

Ku Klux Klan

Jim Crow Laws

Freedmen were not able to vote.

Women were not allowed to vote.

The Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in Confederate states.

According to the Dred Scott Decision, slaves were property not citizens.

Jim Crow Laws created segregation in the South in order for the white population to maintain social dominance over the black population.

Jim Crow Laws created segregation throughout the nation.

Black codes established separate public facilities for black and white citizens in the South.

Jim Crow Laws ensured that black Americans had equal facilities as white Americans in the South.

The Ku Klux Klan did not survive beyond the period of Reconstruction.

The Ku Klux Klan was aimed at advancing the rights of freedmen.

The Ku Klux Klan targeted scalawags and carpetbagger that led the Radical Reconstruction governments that sought to advance the rights of freedmen.

The methods of intimidation used by the Ku Klux Klan was ineffective.

Plains Indians were not willing to put forth the effort necessary to be successful farmers.

Traditionally the Plains Indians had been buffalo hunters.

The Plains Indians lacked farming skills.

The land on reservations provided the Plains Indians was often not suitable for farming.

It encouraged urbanization.

It encouraged populations of people to move into the western territories.

It encouraged sodbusters to begin farming the Great Plains.

It discouraged immigration to the United States.

Homestead Act: Offer of a free home to Plains farmers.

Dawes Act: Offer of 160 acres of land to Native Americans in an effort to make them assimilate and farm.

Homestead Act: Offer of 160 acres in the Great Plains to any settler who would work the land for 5 years.

Manifest Destiny: belief among Americans that the United States should extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

The climate of the Great Plains made farming easy.

The steel plow allowed the Great Plains to be utilized for farming.

Farmers on the Great Plains struggled with weather extremes, insect invasions and the threat of Indian attacks.

Farmers often made their homes out of sod because there was a lack of trees.

The buffalo was imperative to the survival of the Plains Indians.

The Plains Indians were a nomadic people.

The Plains Indians used horses to hunt buffalo and move the tribe from place to place.

The loss of the buffalo will have little impact on the lives of the Plains Indians.