EXAM 1: Fredrick Jackson Turner & the Frontier thesis
only ___% of all farmers obtained property in this way (homestead act)
10
__ Amendment is a constitutional amendment giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, except for American Indians.
14
the __ amendment prohibited the federal & state governments from denying any citizen the right to vote because of race
15
_____________ ______________ implemented the forced removal of native americans out west (trail of tears)
Andrew Jackson
_________ bureau announced the Frontier was closed because they considered the area settled - 2.5 white people lived there by square mile
Census
_______ ______ ____ of 1866 is a measure against the Black Codes to reinforce black rights to citizenship.
Civil Rights Bill
the _________ ______________ Act bill promised Indians tracts of land to farm in order to assimilate them into white culture. The bill was resisted, uneffective, and disastrous to Indian tribes
Dawes Severalty
the _____________ Bureau was an agency established by congress to attempt to establish a working free labor system
Freedmens
the _________ Thesis is the argument by Frederick Jackson Turner that the frontier experience helped make American society more democratic; emphasized cheap, unsettled land and the absence of a landed aristocracy.
Frontier
________________ is a formal document charging a public official with misconduct in office
Impeachment
_________ v US was a United States Supreme Court case that upheld the constitutionality of the Major Crimes Act of 1885. This Congressional act gave the federal courts jurisdiction in certain cases of Indian-on-Indian crimes, even if the crimes were committed on an Indian reservatio
Kagma
____________ Land is the possessory title to 40 acres, gave former slaves small plots of land
Sherman
__________ S. Grant won the presidential election in 1868
Ulysses
________ ______ were laws passed by the southern governments that attempted to regulate the lives of former slaves
black codes
blacks abandoned white controlled religious institutions to create ___________ of their own
churches
political _____________ is a conquest and control of culturally different peoples, who are are so dissimilar that they cannot be easily incorporated but must be ruled as subjects outside the ordinary political process
colonialism
under cop lien, high interest rates & the uncertainties of farming often led to unescapable _____
debts
black codes ____________ blacks the right to testify against whites, to serve on a jury, to vote & serve in militias
denied
Chief Justice John Marshall said Indian nations should be viewed as domestic ______________ nations
dependent
the 14th amendment ______ grant blacks the right to vote
didn't
________________ means to set free (slaves)
emancipate
Freedmen's Bureau agents were supposed to _____________ schools, provide aid to the poor/aged, settle disputes between white & blacks & secure equal treatment before the courts
establish
worlds _____ became an important way to connect people - chicago
fairs
in 1865 Andrew Johnson ordered nearly all land in federal hands to be returned to its ___________ owners (kicking blacks off land, specifically Sherman land.)
former
black codes _________ blacks rights such as legalized marriage, ownership of poverty & limited access to the courts
granted
The Bureau was very successful in helping finance educational activities & ________ _____
health care
fredrick jackson turner is a ____________ & became a household name due to a paper
historian
the _______________ act (1862) provided free land in the West to anyone willing to settle there and develop it. Encouraged westward migration. - pay $10 registration fee
homestead
Frontier has always had a ______ quality to it in american history
mythic
another Homestead Act problem was Turner assumed this land was unsettled even though the land was already occupied by ___________ _____________
native americans
Only 1 of 9 acres allocated under Homestead Act ends up in the hands of individual ___________
pioneers
people say the frontier is a safety valve _____________________
psychologically
the __________________ act temporarily divided the south into 5 military districts & called for the creation of new state governments
reconstruction
______________ is a system that allowed each black family to rent a part of a plantation, with the crop divided between worker & owner at the end of the year
sharecropping
__________________ guaranteed the planters a stable resident labor force
sharecropping
whites treated indian nations as nations and didn't question their _________________, why they tried to make treaties with them
sovereignty
Chicago Worlds Fair celebrated ___________________ advances
technological
congress adopted the ________ __ _______ act (1867) which barres the president from removing certain officeholders including cabinet members, without the consent of the senate
tenure of office
_____________ steven's most cherished aim was to confiscate the land of disloyal planters & divide it among former slaves & northern migrants to the south
thaddeus
eventually the dire poverty of the black community would compel a far higher proportion of black women than white women to go to work for _____
wages
the Frontier thesis is _______ because it did not function as a safety valve since it costed a lot of money
wrong