1. So FAR: Life in the United States 1865 - 1900
European Americans
African Americans
Native AmericanS

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. United States