Race is based on the faulty ___ of physical differences among human beings.
What is perception
100
After the Cherokee Indians were forced out of their homelands, they then had to suffer through this grueling, 1000 mile journey.
What is the Trail of Tears
100
He founded the Tuskegee Institute and believed in vocational education for young black men.
Who is Booker T. Washington
100
The area of the world that saw the most "old" immigrants coming to the US in the years prior to 1880.
What is Northern or Northwestern Europe
100
During the Gold Rush years, this city was small in 1848, but after 1849, it boomed into a huge urban center (but also a cesspool of violence, prostitution, and crime).
What is San Francisco
200
This is the idea that one group of people exerts political, economic, and social pressure on other groups of people in order to keep themselves in a dominant position.
What is oppression
200
The British originally set this up in order to separate themselves from Native Americans.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763
200
After the Civil War was over, Abraham Lincoln formed this organization, with the purpose of helping freed slaves transition into their new lives.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau
200
The competing set of factors and motives that compel people to make the decision to move to another country.
What are push and pull factors
200
The Connecticut Compromise divided powers of legislation between these two entities
What are the House of Representative and the Senate.
300
This is the infamous three-word phrase in the Declaration of Independence.
What is Merciless Indian Savages
300
Known as Sharp Knife, this American leader was a notorious Indian killer and slave owner.
Who is Andrew Jackson
300
In order to balance the power between free states and slave states, this agreement was made to lower the voting population of the south.
What is the 3/5 Compromise
300
These were the five requirements of the 1790 Naturalization Act - the first US citizenship law.
What was whiteness, freedom, good moral character, 5 years residence in the US, and the renunciation of previous citizenship.
300
This tends to be a very controversial idea, but one that Ely Samuel Parker would agree with as the only high ranking Native American in US government during the late 1800s.
What is assimilation
400
In the Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson says this, that as a suspicion only...
What is blacks are inferior to whites in mind and body
400
These two Sioux leaders put up a strong armed resistance campaign against Generals Sherman and Custer, but ultimately fell to the aggressive US army.
Who are Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse
400
The type of segregation that exists and persists in the hearts and minds of people, and that Marcus Garvey argued "if I hate you, no law can make me love you."
What is de facto racism
400
This law paved the way for the equal protection of people from outside of the US within US borders.
What is the 14th Amendment
400
These people saw themselves as God's chosen people, who lived on a "city upon a hill." These people also believed that the smallpox epidemic was a way of God "clearing the way for them."
Who were the Puritans
500
The four "scientists" who came up with the idea of separating humans into separate categories and placing value on those categories.
Who are Linnaeaus, Blumenbach, Camper, and Morton
500
This notorious law ended the recognition of the sovereignty and independence of hundreds of Native American tribes, and then moved many reservations into cities in the mid-1900s.
What is the Termination and Relocation Acts
500
Fearless female leader who wrote publications and gave speeches nationwide - including in the deep south - against lynching.
Who was Ida B. Wells
500
This law declared that the disabled, homeless, poor, illiterate, and uneducated of the world are not welcome in the United States (along with people from the Southern Hemisphere).
What is the 1917 Immigration Act (Barred Zones Act)
500
He led his people into the canyons of Northern California to hide from the US Army. He was betrayed by his own men. He fought back when he had to, and negotiated when the time was right. He was awesome!