Vocabulary
Jim Crow
Westward Expansion
People
Lagniappe
100

the killing of a person by a mob, often by hanging

What is lynching

100

this ethnic group was the primary target of Jim Crow Laws

Who are African Americans

100

gold, precious metals, better jobs, the Homestead Act, the Transcontinental Railroad, fresh start, escape from Jim Crow

What are reasons people traveled West

100

this group of people were pushed off of the lands which they lived on as settlers moved West; unlike many Americans they viewed land as something shared and sacred

Who are Native Americans

100
Seperate but equal facilties like the Separate Cars Act or separate water fountains were argued to violate this amendment

What is the 14th Amendment

200

________ factors make someone want to leave a place, but _________ factors draw someone to a place

What are PUSH and PULL factors

200

this White Supremacy Group was responsible for a lot of the violence and lynching which took place against African Americans

Who is the KKK

200

the Transcontinental Railroad, the mechanical reaper, the telegraph, barbed wire

What are technological advancements (during Westward Expansion/19th century)

200

this man sat on a whites only railroad car and when asked to move to a train car designated for “Colored” people, refused and was arrested 

Who is Homer Plessy
200

This image is an example of what

What is assimilation

300

Laws created during the Jim Crow Era to deprive of a franchise or of a legal right; to deprive of the right to vote

What are Disenfranchisement Laws/ What is disenfranchisement

300

a labor system in which a landowner would rent a portion of his land to a farmer who agreed to raise a cash crop and give a share to the farmer, in exchange for the land and access to a house

What is sharecropping

300

the idea that white Americans were divinely ordained to settle the entire continent of North America

What is Manifest Destiny

300

African Americans who left the South in large scale numbers during the Great Migration for better economic opportunities and an escape from Jim Crow

Who are Exodusters

300

This land grant legislation led to the rapid settlement of territories in the West by offering up to 160 acres of land to settlers who pledged to stay on the land and farm it for 5 years

What is the Homestead Act

400

the process whereby individuals or groups of differing ethnic heritages are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society

What is assimilation/ What is to assimilate

400

This Supreme Court case laid the foundation for the next 70 years of segregation

What is Plessy v Ferguson

400

this act allotted government land to be set aside specifically for colleges devoted to the agricultural and mechanical arts. 

What is the Morrill Land Grant Act

400

These people often managed herds of cattle when they moved out West

Who are cowboys

400

Fear and discrimination against Chinese people after the immigration of Chinese laborers to the U.S. led to this immigration policy

What is the Chinese Exclusion Act

500

people or objects that are native to a certain region or environment. They may grow there, live there, be produced there, or occur naturally there

What is indigenous

500

Phrase: The Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v Ferguson

What is "separate but equal"

500

this law authorized the President to break up reservation land, which was held in common by the members of a tribe, into small allotments to be parceled out to individuals; forced Natives who accepted land to assimilate into American society in order to become US citizens

What is the Dawes Act

500

W.E.B. Dubois, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells, Thurgood Marshall 

Who are Civil Rights activists

500

Conflict between the US army and the Sioux Indians which resulted in the massacre of hundreds of Sioux men, women, and children

What is the Battle of Wounded Knee

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