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- What legislation called for large areas of tribal land to be broken up into small plots that would be owned by individual Native Americans?
- What invention led to the end of the open range?
- Which of these groups fought each other in range wars?
- Which animal was central to the Plains Indians' way of life but was hunted almost to extinction by white settlers?
- What clause of the Treaty of Versailles significantly damaged the German economy and led to hyperinflation?
- During Reconstruction, which political party was supported by the Ku Klux Klan and the White League?
- the unregulated exchange of goods and services
- What legislation was passed in order to protect African American voters from groups like the Ku Klux Klan?
- a system in which the governments led by a small elite few controlled all the economic and political life
- According to the Fifteenth Amendment, which of these factors cannot be used to deny U.S. citizens the right to vote?
- Which group were the Reconstruction Amendments intended to protect?
- What ideology took hold in Russia, directly leading to the Russian Revolution?
- a journey undertaken for a special purpose
- In 1867, the United States purchased the present-day state of Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million. Arranged by the United States Secretary of State, William Seward
- Which of these places became the center of African American communities after the Civil War?
- Why were freedmen eager to attend the schools created by the Freedmen's Bureau during Reconstruction?
- Which of these describes how African traditions were incorporated into the many new churches that freedmen organized after the Civil War?
- the formal giving up of territory by a government
- Which of these made it possible for hundreds of African Americans to be elected to political office in the 1870s?
- Which of these people paid rent to a landowner to raise crops and lived on the landowner's land, which sometimes led to them being exploited?