Native American Laws & Battles
1876 conflict in Montana between federal troops led by Lieut. Col. George A. Custer and Northern Plains Indians led by Sitting Bull. Resulted in death/massacre of Custer and his men.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
laws used to discriminate against African-Americans and segregate them from whites
What are Jim Crow Laws?
public execution of an individual, sometimes wrongly accused, by a mob
What is a lynching?
How many "Days of Christmas" are there?
What is 12?
Christian group that KKK most despised in 1920s?
What are Catholics?
Law authorized the President to break up reservations into small properties to be owned by individuals.
What is the Dawes Act?
local laws
What are ordinances?
mass movement of blacks northward, migrating from the southern states into the north hoping for less discrimination and better jobs
What is the Great Migration?
the Grinch is as charming as this animal
What is an eel?
A communist revolution in this country caused the First Red Scare in America
What is Russia?
1890 conflict in South Dakota in which US troops killed 150 Natives in what was the final clash between federal troops and Plains Indians.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
ability to vote without interference or intimidation
What is ballot access?
separation of people based on exterior characteristics, like skin color
What is segregation?
this makes Frosty dance
What is a hat?
individuals who favor policies or attitudes of favoring native-born individuals over foreign-born ones
Who are nativists?
series of conflicts in the late 1800s between Native Americans in the Great Plains and the United States, over control of the Great Plains region between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains.
What are the Plains Wars?
to cancel or nullify an existing law
What is repeal?
time period after Civil War during which the federal government attempted to help former Black slaves become full citizens while also rebuilding the South after the war.
What is the Reconstruction period?
the name of the Italian Christmas donkey
What is Dominic?
refusal to accept another group's behaviors or opinions because they are different from what is accepted or popular
What is intolerance?
series of laws that gave citizens up to 160 acres of public land provided they live on it, improve it, and pay a small registration fee.. These areas were the traditional or treaty lands of many Native American tribes.
What is the Homestead Acts?
legalized segregation with the concept of "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
to establish something as normal
What is institutionalize?
these glisten in a White Christmas
What are tree tops?
this Native American spiritual movement led to the Wounded Knee Massacre
Ghost Dance