The Transcontinental Railroad allowed the spread of American culture and Christianity to Native territories.

Manifest Destiny was officially completed and mandated in 1869, when the railroad was completed.

The Transcontinental Railroad shortened the journey across America from 6 months to 6 days

The Railroad employed many minorities and Native Americans and allowed racial equality during the late 1800s.

The Republican Party created the Homestead Act to slow the spread of slavery to the West.

The Republican Party believed the land should be given to all women, African Americans, and Natives.

The Homestead Act was a creation of the Whig Party.

To allow Native Americans to keep 100 million acres of the best land in the prairie states

Natives experienced treatment of the best kind, and many went on to Ivy League schools and government positions

Natives were converted to Christianity, forced to cut their hair, change their names, and wear western clothing

Boarding schools allowed Natives to continue practicing all their original customs

Native Americans attended boarding schools which taught their customs to settlers on the frontier

The withdrawal of troops from the South caused an increase in racism and discrimination towards African Americans

The Compromise of 1877 gave full political, social, and economic rights to African Americans

The Compromise of 1877 established separate communities for African Americans with equal facilities

The disenfranchisement methods after 1877 gave political advantages to African Americans

African Americans and other minorities have experienced no long-term effects because of these decisions

The decisions and policies have resulted in reparations and legislation to overturn the effects

The policies resulted in few changes in the daily lives of those living in the era, so no effects

African Americans and other minorities have experienced long-term social, economic, and political disadvantages as a result

Violence, fraud, poll taxes, literacy tests

Assimilation, boarding schools, conversion to Christianity

Disenfranchisement methods including taking away businesses from African American business owners.

African Americans were not allowed to patronize franchise businesses.

Pap Singleton and the Exodusters were a Christian quartet whose songs gave slaves directions to escape the South

They were a group of former slaves who led a rebellion in Virginia which led to the deaths of 55 white people

Pap Singleton and the Exodusters were former slaves (about 40,000) who left the South during Reconstruction and moved west

A secret group of former slaves who fought a guerrilla war against the KKK in the Reconstruction-era South

Vanderbilt- railroad, Rockefeller-oil, Carnegie-steel, Morgan-banking

Vanderpump- banking, Morganhauser- kerosene, Carnervrolet- automobiles, Stevenson- steamboats/transportation

Washington- farming, Van Buren- railroads, Charleston- transportation/oil, Bornegie- telegraph

Tweed- construction, Garfield- spoils, Guiteau- firearms

Ahere were few noticeable changes because of new technologies

Americans stayed away from new technologies for fear it would change their lifestyles

Americans invested heavily in the wrong industries and a great depression happened from 1877-1895

Daily life was improved—Americans began to spend more money and consume more goods

Boston, New York City, Chicago, Pittsburgh, San Francisco

Nashville, Jackson, Montgomery, Atlanta, Charleston

Dallas, Houston, Oklahoma City, El Paso, Albuquerque

Seattle, Portland, Boise, Des Moines, Chicago