Unit 11 Day 6

Jobs were given to freedmen in the lumber industry.

Money was given to freedmen to buy food and shelter.

Education was provided to freedmen.

Trains and wagons carried freedmen to the North to find jobs.

By dividing large plantations and redistributing the property to former slaves

By creating a militia to help enforce the voting rights of former slaves

By offering legal assistance and public schooling to former slaves

By petitioning the government to offer money to former slaves

By introducing new technology for growing food

By expanding the region’s dependence on corn production

By making landowners buy supplies from the government

By keeping renters in debt to landlords

Irish and Chinese immigrants faced intense nativism

Environmental modifications changed the landscape

New markets were opened for business owners

Wages for all workers nearly doubled

Cost of raw materials surged across the U.S.

Stock market crashed nationwide

Native Americans embraced American culture

Latin American countries expanded trade

New markets opened for businesses

Reconstruction Codes

Reconstruction Proclamation

Reconstruction Acts of 1867

enforce harsh penalties for illegal foreign trading

protect the rights of African Americans in the South

divide out farmland to newly freed African Americans

a passenger could travel from California to New York in under three hours

it connected Texas to Kansas to ship cattle on railroads instead of cattle drives

modifications were made to the environment to construct the railroad

people disliked that this man-made object disrupted beautiful views of nature

Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad

Gold was discovered in Oregon

Union soldiers given land for their service

Slavery was legal in the west

China

Russia

Italy

Germany