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Rise of Industrialization
Unit 1: Civil War,
Reconstruction, Westward
ExpansionOHS HISTORY TEAM
Learning
Objectives
Explain how the Homestead Act and the
Transcontinental Railroad impacted the settlement of
the West.
Examine federal policies towards Native Americans
Explain the impact of the Compromise of 1877
Big Concepts
During the 1800s Americans pushed west in search of economic opportunity.
As Americans pushed west Native Americans fought and lost to keep their lands.
Some pushed west in hopes of expanding slavery
The conflict over slavery led to the American Civil War
After the Civil War ended the nation debated how to rebuild and bring back in the
defeated southern states.
Millions of slaves were freed at the end of the war and became American citizens.
The time period after the Civil War is known as Reconstruction
Reconstruction ended in 1877.
Nine Essential Vocabulary Terms
Essential Vocabulary Terms
1 Homestead Act
2 Transcontinental
Railroad
3 Reservation
4 Assimilation
5 Dawes Act
6 Compromise of 1877
7 Plessy v. Ferguson
8 Jim Crow Laws
9 Benjamin “Pap”
Singleton and the
Exodusters
#1: Homestead Act
Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862, the
Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160
acres of public land.
#2 Transcontinental Railroad
The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,912-mile continuous railroad line
constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern
U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast at the
Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay
#3 Reservation is a legal designation for an area of land managed by a federally recognized Native
American tribe under the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs
#4 Assimilation
is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a
dominant group or assume the values, behaviors, and beliefs of another
group
#5 Dawes Act
Approved on February 8, 1887, "An Act to Provide for the Allotment
of Lands in Severalty (the condition of being separate) to Native
Americans on the Various Reservations,“
emphasized severalty, the treatment of Native Americans as
individuals rather than as members of tribes
#6 Compromise of 1877
was an informal, unwritten deal, that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S.
presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling
the last troops out of the South, and formally ended the Reconstruction Era.
Southern Democrats = Union troops leave and stop protecting African
Americans
Republicans = Get the presidency (Rutherford B. Hayes)
#7Plessy v. Ferguson
is a U.S. Supreme Court case from 1896 that upheld the rights of states to
pass laws allowing or even requiring racial segregation in public and
private institutions
a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal".
#8 Jim Crow Laws
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation
in the Southern United States.
Jim Crow laws disenfranchised, or restricted, the Constitutional rights of
African Americans.
Poll Tax, Literacy Test = examples of voting disenfranchisement
#9 Benjamin “Pap” Singleton and the
Exodusters Exodusters was a name given to African Americans who
migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in
the late nineteenth century (1879). It was the first general
migration of black people following the Civil War.
Pap Singleton, from Nashville TN, led this migration.
Chronological Time Line
1861- Civil War
Starts
1862- Homestead
Act
1865- Civil War
Ends.
Reconstruction
Starts
1869-
Transcontinental
Railroad
Completed
1877 –End
Reconstruction
1887- Dawes Act
1896- Plessy vs
Ferguson
Change
Slavery has ended
African Americans become free citizens
Native Americans are forced onto reservations
Southern states become racially segregated
The country is linked by railroads
ContinuityAmericans continue
migrating