Treatment of African Americans
These laws were enacted by several states from 1890-1915 and were intact until the 1960's.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This phrase was coined by Charles Darwin and meant that only fit people should survive.
What is "survival of the fittest"?
The name of the transaction between the US and France that doubled the size of America,
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This Atlanta newspaper editor coined the phrase "New South" in 1874.
Who is Henry W. Grady?
This Supreme Court decision produced the phrase "separate but equal".
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
These test and taxes were put in place to stop African Americans and poor whites from voting.
What are literacy test and poll taxes?
One thought for this policy was for businesses to have the ability to set their own prices.
What is Laissez-Faire?
This transportation development played an important part in the building of the western US.
What is the railroads?
This took the place of slavery in the plantation system of the south after the Civil War.
What is sharecropping and tenant farming?
This period of time after the Civil war was instrumental in the reorganizing of the South.
What is Reconstruction?
This amendment abolished slavery in the southern states.
What is the 13th amendment?
This period of time came after what significant war in American history.
What is the Civil War?
These two men were sent to explore the newly acquired western territory.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
The position of indebtedness (struggling for money) that many of the new southern workers fell into was called.
What is debt peonage?
The over 300,00 migrants that flooded California in 1849 were known as.
Who are the forty-niners?
This set of codes were put in place to enforce segregation.
What are the Black Codes?
These business practices were being created during the Glided Age. It is now a popular board game.
What is monopoly?
The price the US paid France for the area west of the Mississippi River.
What is $15 Million?
This man used the cigarette rolling machines to start the American Tobacco Company in North Carolina in 1890.
Who is James Duke?
This act gave many US citizens the ability to have their own farmland.
What is the Homestead Act?
This act was designed to give blacks equal treatment in public places and transportation.
What is the Civil Rights Act?
The Gilded Age lead to the world's shift from an agricultural society to an industrial one. This time is known as.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
The name of the Native American women who assisted the explorers of the new western territory.
Who is Sacagawea?
This group of people like African Americans did not benefit from the emergence of the industries of the south.
Who are poor whites?
This was the name of the tribes that were originally left out of the forced removal from their tribal lands.
What are the "Five Civilized Tribes"?