American History (Unit 1 and 2) Midterm Review

Immediate, first-hand accounts of a topic, from people who had a direct connection with it...

The period during which the United States began to rebuild after the Civil War, lasting from 1865 to 1877...

The discriminatory laws passed throughout the post-Civil War South which severely restricted African Americans' lives...

Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime...

Defined citizenship as all persons born or naturalized to the US, and guaranteed citizens equal protection under the law.

Prevented the denying of the right to vote to citizens of the US, especially if they had previously been slaves...

The 19th-century belief that the United States would inevitably expand westward to the Pacific Ocean and into Mexican territory...

To be absorbed into the main culture of a society...

A law enacted in 1887 that was intended to "Americanize" Native Americans by distributing reservation land to individual owners...

A law enacted in 1862 that provided 160 acres to any citizen who was head of household and would cultivate the land for 5 years...