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Abraham Lincoln’s assassination elevated Vice President ________ to the presidency.

The ________ would essentially end the Reconstruction era.

By 1890, over________ Black people lived west of the Mississippi River.

In addition to legislation designed to facilitate western settlement, the U.S. government assumed an active role on the ground, building numerous ________throughout the West to aid settlers during their migration. 

In 1864 and 1865, Radical Republicans were most concerned with ________ ?

Abraham Lincoln’s assassination elevated Vice President ________ to the presidency.

Beginning in the 1880s, clergymen, government officials, and social workers all worked to ________ Native peoples into American life.

At the end of the Civil War, as many as five million longhorn steers could be found along the________, yet few settlers had capitalized on the opportunity to claim them, due to the difficulty of transporting them to eastern markets. The completion of the first transcontinental railroad and subsequent railroad lines changed the game dramatically.

By early 1866, ________ in Congress did not agree with President Andrew Johnson’s position that the Union had been restored.

Prohibited by law since 1790 from obtaining U.S. citizenship through naturalization, ________ faced harsh discrimination and violence from American settlers in the West.