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1. Reconstruction took place from ____________ to ______________.

2. According to Lincoln’s plan a state could come back into the Union if _______ % of the qualified voters took the oath of allegiance and formed a state government abolishing slavery.

3. Five days following the end of the Civil War, __________ _________ ___________ shot and killed President Lincoln.

4. President Andrew Johnson followed Lincoln. Under his plan all the southern states came back into the Union. Instead of treating their freed slaves well they passed ______________ _______________.

5. Congress created the ________________ Bureau to deal with problems of ex-slaves.

6. What was the slaves’ idea of real freedom?

7. Which amendment gave citizenship to blacks?

8. Radical Republicans in Congress were led by Charles ________________ and Thaddeus __________________.

9. The Reconstruction Act of 1867 divided the South into _________ military districts, each under the command of a union general.

10. The ________________ of ________________ Act ordered the President not to remove without Senate consent, any official whose appointment required Senate approval.

11. The act mentioned in # 10 was a power grab by the legislative branch from the ____________________ branch of government.

12. The Impeachment trial of President Johnson lasted ________ weeks. He was saved from removal as President by _______ vote(s).

13. When the Republicans “waved the bloody shirt” in the 1868 election in which Ulysses S. Grant was elected President, what were the Republicans blaming the Democrats for?

14. The __________ Amendment gave the vote to black men.

15. Which group of people felt betrayed by the amendment giving the vote to black men?

16. Southern whites who became Republican were called ____________________. Northern whites who came to the South to be involved in government were called _________________________.

17. The post Civil War system of farming in the South became known as __________________________.

18. The Ku Klux Klan was created by ______________ ______________ ____________.

19. Why was the northern campaign against the Klan destined to be unsustainable?

20. One famous scandal in the Grant administration involved distillers and government

agents cheating the U.S. government out of millions in taxes. This was called the _________________ _____________.

21. President _________________ ordered federal troops out of the South, thus officially ending Reconstruction.

22. By the 1860s agricultural settlement got as far west as midway through ___________________.

23. The ________________ Indians originated in northern Minnesota. They followed the buffalo herds into the Plains where they became known as hunters, fighters, and raiders of other Indians.

24. The railroad company building westward from Omaha was the ____________ Pacific. The company building eastward from Sacramento was the ______________ Pacific. They met at ___________________ Point, Utah.

25. The __________________ Trail went from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas.

26. In addition to whites, many cowboys on the Long Drive were _____________ and ____________________.

27. The Federal Homestead Act offered ___________ acres of public land to settlers.

28. In the Battle of the Little Big ___________ George A. Custer and his 256 men were wiped out by a superior force of Indians led by Chief _____________ _____________,

29. In 1889, Two million fertile acres of land were opened to white settlement in the Indian Territory of ________________________.

30. What didn’t the white friends of the Indian not understand about the Indian?

31. The ______________ Act of 1887 gave the Indian family _______ acres and citizenship.

32. By 1890 nearly _____________________ dollars worth of gold and silver had been taken from the mines in the Rocky Mountain area.

33. __________________ immigrants became famous for working on the Central Pacific railroad laying track across the Sierras.

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