In addition to southern African Americans, ___________  shifted the demographics of the rapidly growing cities.

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

In ________, the U.S. Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which forbade further Chinese immigration into the United States for ten years. 

The date, June 19, 1865, would become the most popular annual celebration of the end of slavery, known as ________ .

The first amendment added to the Constitution since 1804, ________ overturned a centuries-old practice by permanently abolishing slavery.

To assist the settlers in their move westward and transform the migration from a trickle into a steady flow, Congress passed two significant pieces of legislation in 1862. The two significant pieces of legislation were ________.

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

The initial arrival of ________  to the United States began as a slow trickle in the 1820s, with barely 650 living in the U.S. by the end of 1849.

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.

Of the hundreds of thousands of settlers who moved west, the vast majority were ________.