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