Fill In Sentences:
Postwar Change and Growth
INSTRUCTIONS:
Fill in each blank box with the word from the above list that best completes the sentence.
prosper
Reconstruction
reservations
Homesteaders
reformers
Reunification
emancipated
kerosene
Cowhands
strike
drove
Skyscrapers
Sharecropping
Jim Crow laws
implement
1. Lillian Wald and Jane Addams were who established the Henry Street Settlement and Hull House.
2. Immigrants hoped they would with their work so that their families could benefit from their earnings.
3. was an unfair system because workers were never paid a lot of money, even if they worked hard on the farm.
4. herded cattle to railroad stations because there was high demand for beef in cities.
5. Former slaves became free men and women when they were .
6. Southern states decided to black codes into society in order to oppress African Americans again.
7. was a product of John D. Rockefeller that increased the ways petroleum could be used in society.
8. Some of the skilled cowhands who cattle were African Americans who were formerly enslaved.
9. Even though the Civil War was over, was still a dangerous time period for former slaves.
10. Sioux Nation members moved to after soldiers took over their land in the 1870s.
11. received 160 acres of land from Congress if they agreed to live on the property for five years.
12. After Reconstruction, Southern states used to continue the segregation that black codes and slavery had begun.
13. of the country needed to take place because Northern and Southern states had clashed during the Civil War.
14. Workers would as a way to protest against unfair conditions of their jobs.
15. became possible to build because steel was a durable material that could support a large amount of weight.
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Definition Matching:
Postwar Change and Growth
INSTRUCTIONS:
For each vocabulary word in the left column, locate its definition in the right column.
Type the number of the correct definition in the blank before the word.
skyscrapers
1. people who work for change or improvement to something
drove
2. become successful, especially economically
implement
3. a farming arrangement where a tenant farmer paid a share of the crop to a landowner for the use of the land
sharecropping
4. people employed to tend cattle or drive them; hired hands
cowhands
5. released or liberated an enslaved person
reformers
6. put into practice or effect
reservations
7. a distilled petroleum product used as fuel, a cleaning solvent, or in lamps
reconstruction
8. herded or urged in a specific direction, usually a group or flock of animals
Jim Crow laws
9. the process of reorganizing and reestablishing the former Confederate states back into the Union after the Civil War
strike
10. public lands set aside as places for occupation by Native Americans
homesteaders
11. settlers acquiring or owning land granted under the U.S. Homestead Act
kerosene
12. repressive laws enacted at the end of Reconstruction discriminating against African Americans
emancipated
13. the process of coming together again or joining together things that were once united
reunification
14. a work stoppage by laborers in order to gain concessions from their employer or in protest against working conditions or unfair labor practices
prosper
15. a many-storied, steel-framed building upon which the walls are hung, rather than a building supported by load-bearing walls
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