A plethora of laws that restricted civil liberties of freed slaves.

Designed to keep blacks in a condition of slavery.

To help integrate former slaves into society.

Schools & Churches for former slaves.

"40 acres & a mule."

Johnson supports it, but due to personal animosites with Congress, kills it.

"All persons born or naturalized in the U.S. are citizens of the U.S. and that no state could abridge their rights without due process of law or deny them equal protection of the law."

The # of rep. in the house can be reduced for states that denied black men the right to vote.

Former Confederate leaders are barred from holding public office unless allowed by 2/3rd of both houses of congress.

The Confederate debt is repudiated.

Elected with much fanfare. A war hero.

A better military leader than politician.

Alcoholism affected his performance.

The president could be bribed with a bottle of whiskey.

Showed up to functions in an intoxicated state.

Spent his entire salary on Booze.

His administration was rocked by scandal.

Ignored reconstruction

Southern States went back to their old ways

Former confederate leaders regained power.

Punish the South

Led by Thaddeus Stevens & Charles Sumner

Suffrage for blacks. Federal protection of former slaves.

Gained power in congress by 1867

1866; Former CSA soldiers in Pulaski,TN created a fraternity to pull pranks against the US troops in the South

Kuklos Klan="Family Circle"

quickly moved to violence

1870

States cannot deny male citizens the right to vote because ofrace, color,or previous condition of servitude

Southern States enacted poll taxes, grandfather clauses and literacy exams to keepblacks and poor whites from voting.

Social Structurein which blacks are suboordinate to whites

Jews andHispanics granted "whiteness" in most of the South

Attempts touse the Chinese as a new form of chep labor

Form a coalition to weaken the Radical Republicans

Southerns who sided with Northerners for personal gain.

Angry wites who felt cheated by the Government.

The corrupt bargain.

SC,LA,FL,OR will change there votes if U.S. troops leave the south.

Hayes agrees and withdraws with troops after his inauguration.

Reconstruction comes to an end.

AKA "Sand Creek Massacre"

A bored Colorado militia attacks and scalps a group of 100 sleeping sioux Indians.

A violation of peace treaties.

Col. John Chivington displays the scalp in a freak show.

Public became outraged.

The Sioux: This means War!

1875: "Theres gold up there hills!"

White Settlers encroach upon the Black Hills reservation.

The US army went to provide order

Nervous US troops used machine guns to Mow down 200 men, women, children and soliders.

1887

Divided reservations into small plots

Each family had recieved 160 acres.

Single men recieved 40 acres.

Surplus land can be sold to whites.

To introduce Native Americans to white culture.

Goal:Indians will never return to nomadic ways.

A Native American spiritual movement grows.

The Sioux turned to religon for help.

Dances performed to convince Native American dieties to kill off the Whites.

Livestock shipper.

Proposed building railheads in Kansas.

Move the Cattle from Texas to the railheads.

Herds of 2-3000 @ a time.

Cowboys who took risks.

A US Col. who was killed in the battle of little big horn AKA Custers last stand.

Cheif sitting bull Surrounds Custers 265 men with 2500 warriors & attacks.

18th Amendment

(liquor amendment)

(1920)

Prohibits the manufacture, sale & transport of intoxicating liquors.

A Catalouge

Allowed rural America to purchase products produced in cities.

By 1900 6000000 catalouges were distributed.

In 1870, 20,000 bikes, by 1895, more than 10000.

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Between 1890 and 1920, many Americans became worried about the effects of industrialization and urbanization on society.

Social disorder, political corrupption, racial unrest, living conditions, working conditions, widening gap between rich & poor.

Halls were raided.

Leaders were arrested & deported to Mexico.

There Children were sent to orphanages & adopted out.

was destroyed & never recovered

19th Amendment

Vote amendment

(1920)

Gave women the right to vote