Reconstruction
Set for the upcoming S.S. Unit Test
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- Boss Tweed
- Corrupt leader of Tammany Hall; political boss
- Thomas Nast
- Famous cartoonist in the 1860s-70s. He portrayed Tweed and his people as vultures picking at the city's bones.
- Susan B. Anthony
- One of the Women's Rights leaders
- Ellis Island
- Island in New York Harbor where immigrants were registered and medically examened
- Thaddeus Stevens
- Leader of the Radical Republicans
- 13th Amendment
- Freed all slaves
- Jefferson Davis
- President of the Confederacy
- Alfred Ely Beach
- Invented the first subway
- 15th Amendment
- Gave blacks the right to vote
- 19th Amendment
- Gave women the right to vote
- Reconstruction
- Period After the Civil War when the South was being rebuilt
- Homestead Act
- Congressional Act which gave 160 acres of western, public land for $10 to any citizen
- Edmund Ross
- A U.S. Senator who cast the deciding ballot in the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. If Ross had voted guilty, Johnson would have been kicked out of office.
- WEB DuBois
- Thinker and writer who fought for civil rights, though it was ahead of his times
- Plessy vs. Ferguson
- Supreme Court case which declared segregation of races constitutional
- 14th Amendment
- Made blacks and whites equal
- Andrew Johnson
- President after Lincoln
- Booker T. Washington
- Founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama
- Mark Twain
- Famous American author known for Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer
- Jim Crow
- A man who danced and made fun of blacks
- Joseph Glidden
- Inventor of barbed wire