Became President after Abraham Lincoln's assassination

The Amendment that stated every person born in the United States was a U.S. Citizen.

People who worked hard to build the transcontinental railroad

to accuse a public official of wrongdoing while in office

An invention that was often used to keep cattle off of smaller plots of land

Sailed with his family through Confederate defenses to give a ship to the US Navy

Laws that prevented black people from starting their own farms or living in cities

A secret group that used intimidation and violent methods to prevent black people from exercising their civil rights.

to separate people from the rest of society because of differences such as skin color or religion

Nickname for Native American tribes that wrote constitutions and/or adopted Christianity as their religion

A Southerner who supported Reconstruction

The amendment that outlawed slavery

Leaders who helped their people defeat George Custer at Little Big Horn.

the act of cheating to gain something unlawfully

laws that segregated black people and prevented them from using public places white people used

Someone who agreed to work a plot of land for five years. At the end of this time, he would have the land for free.

Divided the former Confederacy into five military districts and required states to write a new constitution

Argued with cattlemen about where their animals could graze.

a Northerner who moved to the South to get a government job after the Civil War

The three major tribes of the Great Plains

Rode alongside the herd of cattle to keep the cows from wandering off during a long cattle drive.

This Amendment said that states could not deny any man the right to vote

The Great American Desert was home to these animals before settlers drove Indian tribes away.

when a person takes the law into his own hands but has no legal authority to do so

The major crop that made the American Desert a profitable place to live