US History Study Guide PDF

The sodbuster, green horn. 2. Bonanza Farm, a. **Was a person who build buy a bunch claims and make a huge farm, which they would raise different animals (Cattle).** 3. The 13^th^ amendment b. **The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that \"Neit...

The sodbuster, green horn. 2. Bonanza Farm, a. **Was a person who build buy a bunch claims and make a huge farm, which they would raise different animals (Cattle).** 3. The 13^th^ amendment b. **The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that \"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.\" END SLAVERY.** 4. The 14^th^ amendment c. **granted citizenship to all persons \"born or naturalized in the United States,\" including formerly enslaved people, and provided all citizens with "equal protection under the laws," also due process.** 5. The 15 amendments d. **The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Gave right to vote for men.** **BLUEPIRNT FOR MODERN AMERICA** 6. Homestead act e.  **Provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land.** 7.  Morrill Land-grant College Act f. **set aside federal (state) lands to create colleges to "benefit the agricultural and mechanical arts."** 8. Pacific Railway Act g. **offered government incentives to assist "men of talent, men of character, men who are willing to invest" in developing the nation\'s first transcontinental rail line.** 9. Freedmen's Bureau h. **provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.** 10. Special Field Order 15 i. **The order redistributed 400,000 acres of captured confederate land to the people who had been enslaved by Southern landowners. ** 11. Sharecropping j.  **a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop** 12. Sharecroppers k. **a tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent.** 13. Crop Lien l. **allowed farmers to obtain supplies, such as food and seed, on credit from merchants; the debt was to be repaid after the crop was harvested and brought to market.** 14. Military Reconstruction Act m. ** divided the South into five military districts, established military rule over Southern states until new governments could be formed. ** 15. Radical Reconstruction n. **The key elements of Radical Reconstruction were to: Outlaw slavery and encourage a free labor market in the United States. Provide citizenship regardless of race, color, or previous enslavement. Give all men the right to vote regardless of their race, color, or previous enslavement.** 16. Hiram R. Revels o. **Hiram Revels of Mississippi became the first African American senator in 1870** 17. Civil Right Act of 1875 p. guaranteed African Americans equal treatment in public transportation and public accommodations and service on juries. **"That all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theaters, and other places of public amusement; subject only to the \...** 18. Jim Crow q. **racial segregation and discrimination enforced by laws, customs, and practices in especially the southern states of the U.S. from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 until the mid-20th century.** 19. Ida B. Wells r. **African American journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s. She also fought for woman suffrage.** 20. Plessy v. Ferguson s. **Separated but equal** 21. Buffalo t. **Native peoples came to rely on the bison for everything from food and clothing to shelter and religious worship.** 22. Dawes Act u. ** a law that let the federal government divide Native American reservations into smaller pieces and give the land to individual Native Americans. The government wanted Native Americans to own land, become farmers and blend into white American society.** 23. Frederic Jackson Turner v. **The Frontier Thesis, also known as Turner\'s Thesis or American frontierism, is the argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that the settlement and colonization of the rugged American frontier was decisive in forming the culture of American democracy and distinguishing it from European nations.** 24. Maine w. **USS Maine, a second-class battleship built between 1888 and 1895, was sent to Havana in January 1898 to protect American interests during the long-standing revolt of the Cubans against the Spanish government. In the evening of 15 February 1898, Maine sank when her forward gunpowder magazines exploded.** BOOKER T 1. What was Booker referring to when he talked about measuring it "not\ so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome"? a. **SUCCESS** 2. What piece of advice did General Armstrong give to Booker,\ concerning giving public addresses, as they travelled throughout the\ North? b. **Gives them an idea for every word, make every word count** 3. What was more difficult for Booker to teach the students at Tuskegee\ Institute than book learning? c. **Teaching hygiene, manual labor such as fix things, do math, understand their community.** 4. What did Booker think would happen as a result of a white man doing harm to a black man? d. **If he could hit a black man, eventually he will hit a white man.** 1. What was the "most trying ordeal that \[Booker\] was forced to endure as a slave boy"? 2. What test did Booker have to "pass" to gain entrance to Hampton Institute? 3. What was the main idea (a specific phrase) of Booker's speech that he gave at the Atlanta Exposition? What are the themes that run through the book?\ \ Keep going no matter the obstacles, educate your self undefined