Numbers
American Violence
Court Cases and Policies
Nouns
Realities of Segregation
History topics in Memes
200
The number of High Schools for African Americans in the south by 1900
What is 0?
200
Roughly the number of Filipino's left dead during the American occupation of the Phillipines
What is 100,000?
200
This court case legalized the concept of "seperate but equal"
What was Plessy V. Ferguson?
200
If you believed people like Andrew Carnegie were good for society, you would refer to him as this
What is a titan of industry?
200
If you were talented at your job and an African American, this would be the path to a superivsor role in a factory
What is there is no path?
200
What is The Compromise of 1877?
400
The year the Spanish American War Started
What is 1898?
400
This event was sparked off with a bomb thrown into a crowd killing one police--the police responded by raiding union offices
What is the Haymarket Affair?
400
This foreign policy, established during America's infancy, claimed European colonialism would no longer be allowed in the Western Hemisphere
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
400
A tax on the land you own often utilized by state governments to fund schools, hospitals and other public spaces
What is a property tax?
400
If you lived in the deep south and were a rural african american system, this was most likely your profession
What is sharecropping?
400
What is Seperate but Equal?
600
The impact of voting rights by Jim Crow laws can be understood by this percentage--the amount of African Americans registered to vote (national statistics)
What is 3%?
600
If you were an african american male and tried to vote, you may be intimidated away from polls with violence perpetrated by this southern social class
Who were southern Redeemers?
600
Daily Double!
These court cases established that the consituttion does not apply to annexed territories leaving them taxed without representation in government
600
In southern cities during Jim Crow, this group started to develop their own neighborhoods and schools and included individuals with professions like doctors, preachers, and teachers
What is a Black Middle Class?
600
Lack of access to this made it difficult for black farms to compete with white farms in upper southern states
What are resources?
600
What Was the Spanish American War?
800
Roughly the number of individuals who atteneded the lynching of Sam Hose--including children, politicians, and officers of the law
What was ~2,000
800
These people sensionalized the explosion on the U.S.S. Maine to try and push the American populace towards supporting war
who were yellow journalists?
800
This foreign policy claimed America had the right to intervene in all of latin american affairs if their was evidence of "flagrant wrongdoing" or "chronic wrongdoing"
What was the Roosevelt Corollary?
800
With a booming prison population, this system was established to exploit prison labor for difficult tasks like mining or building railroads
What is convict leasing?
800
in 1894 130,000 black men were registered in LA to do this action. by 1904 only 1,342 were registered to do this action.
What is vote?
800
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
1000
How long the Spanish American War lasted
What is 4 months?
1000
Roughly the number of American Casualties during the occupation of the Phillipines
What is ~4,000
1000
This foreign policy demanded European powers allow United States goods to be exported to China.
What was the Open Door Policy?
1000
Daily Double!
This group, while imperfect, attempted to support african american women by creating womens clubs and teaching "proper behavior"
1000
Disenfranchisement, Workplace Inequality, and inferior education all operate in segregation to create what sort of structure?
What is a Social order, or Caste System?
1000
What is the Occupation of the Phillipines?