So FAR:Life in the United States

1865 - 1900EUROPEAN AMERICANS

AFRICAN AMERICANS

NATIVE AMERICANS

European Americans(Whites)

• Abolitionists fought for the end of slavery and civil rights for African Americans.

• Traditionalists fought to keep the status quo and maintain slavery and their way of life.

• Passed Reconstruction Amendments and civil rights laws.

• Passed Jim Crow laws to implement segregation.

• Wanted to assimilate Native Americans into white culture and end their way of life.

• Moved west in search of adventure, a new life, wealth, and/or land.

African Americans

• Became free as a result of the 13th Amendment.

• Saw the promise of a new life due to the Reconstruction Amendments and Civil Rights Laws.

• Had rights taken away through Black Codes, Literacy Tests, Poll Taxes and Jim Crow Laws.

• Saw new found rights disappear with the removal of Federal Troops as a result of the Compromise of 1877.

• Moves west with the hope of starting a new life.

• Faced discrimination and terrorism from groups like the Ku Klux Klan.

NATIVE AMERICANS

• Continued to have land taken through warfare and broken treaties & promises.

• “Indian Wars” included the Battle of Little Bighorn aka Custer’s Last Stand. Sioux tribes united and led by Sitting Bull.

• Sitting Bull, a Sioux, killed killed in 1890 after taking part in the Ghost Dance Movement.

• Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce surrenders in 1877.

• Geronimo, an Apache, was the last Native American to formally surrender to the U.S. Government in 1886.

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