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Reconstruction and the Last Frontier: Economic and Social Changes in Post-Civil War America

Explore Chapter 11's insights on the Reconstruction era and the expansion into the American West. This period saw significant social and economic shifts, including the impact of sharecropping on freed slaves, the Radical Republicans' reforms, and the conflicts faced by Native Americans. Learn about key figures like Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and the pioneers shaping industries from steel to oil. Understand the evolution of labor rights, the role of immigrants in the railroad industry, and the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad that unified the nation.

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Reconstruction and the Last Frontier: Economic and Social Changes in Post-Civil War America

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  1. Reconstruction, Last Frontier, New Industries Chapter 11 Lessons 1, 2, and 3

  2. 16th President; freed slaves. • Abraham Lincoln

  3. Private vote. • secret ballot

  4. Southern states were placed under this rule by the Reconstruction plan put forward by the Radical Republicans in Congress. • U.S. military

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

  6. Impeached in 1867. • Andrew Johnson

  7. Laws that discriminate. • black codes

  8. Period when South was rebuilt. • Reconstruction

  9. Ex slaves rent farmland. • sharecropping

  10. Economic and population upswing. • boom

  11. This is who got land from the Homestead Act. • Settlers who lived on the land for five years

  12. This is why the United States wanted Native Americans to live on reservations. • So settlers could use the land

  13. When pioneers settle land in the west. • homesteading

  14. Lost Battle of Little Big Horn. • Custer

  15. Economic downturn. • bust

  16. Where Indians were forced to live. • reservation

  17. Sioux chief at Little Big Horn. • Sitting Bull

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

  19. African American cowboy. • Nat Love

  20. Person in search of gold. • prospector

  21. Right of workers to negotiate work. • collective bargaining

  22. Pioneer in steel industry. • Andrew Carnegie

  23. Two immigrant groups from which thousands of railroad workers came. • Chinese and Irish

  24. This is how many hours a day people in mills and factories worked in the late 1800’s. • 10 to 12

  25. Organization of workers. • labor union

  26. Another name for oil. • petroleum

  27. Connected East and West Coast. • Transcontinental Railroad

  28. This is where the Transcontinental Railroad was completed. • Promontory, Utah

  29. Tall buildings. • skyscrapers

  30. This person founded the first oil company. • John D. Rockefeller

  31. GOOD LUCK!!! STUDY! STUDY! STUDY!

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