Reconstruction and the End of Western Settlement

The _____was formed by Congress after the Civil War to provide for freed slaves and any poor Southern family for one year.

• Freedmen's Union
• Liberty Commission
• Emancipation Bureau
• Freedmen's Bureau

The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution declared that freedman were _____ of the United States

• citizens
• subjects
• aliens
• residents

The _____ divided Southern States into five military districts to aid in recovery

• Homestead Act

• Compromise of 1877

• Reconstruction Act of 1867

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

The _____ was an agreement in Congress that brought an end to Reconstruction

• Homestead Act

• Reconstruction Act of 1867

• Civil Rights Act of 1866
• Compromise of 1877

The _____ allowed settlers to claim land for a low price if they would improve it and live on it for at least five years

• Homestead Act

• Compromise of 1877

• Reconstruction Act of 1867

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

_____ was a stagecoach company that operated banks, carried mail, and offered travel in the West by stagecoach

• Wells Fargo
• Bank of America
• American Express
• Chase

The telegraph was invented by _____

• Thomas Edison
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Samuel Morse
• Nikola Tesla

The transcontinental railroad was finished when Union Pacific and Central Pacific locomotives met at _____

• Golden Spike, Utah
• Sierra Nevada, California
• Promontory Summit, Utah
• Great Salt Lake, Utah

The Battle of _____ has also been called Custer's Last Stand

• Gettysburg

• Little Bighorn
• Waterloo

• Normandy

The _____ declared that Native Americans were citizens of the United States

• Tribal Rights Declaration

• Indigenous Peoples Act

• Indian Citizenship Act

• Indian Reorganization Act