Election of 1896
A surprise candidate who is elected.
What is a Dark Horse?
Court case to take away Jim Crowe Laws.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Act put in place to push natives west.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
A line that separated East from West (civilization from wilderness)
What is the Frontier?
Born in Virginia as a slave in 1856 and did not see emancipation for a long time.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Great orator who gave the "Cross of Gold" speech.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
Required "equal, but separate" train cars for blacks and whites.
What is the Separate Car Act?
Plains Indians land and lifestyle changed due to this.
What is Expansion?
Idea that people could always move out west into the frontier in times of economic crisis.
What is the Safety-Valve Theory?
Belief that African Americans should accept segregation in exchange for economic opportunity.
What is The Atlanta Compromise?
Began the Republican dominance of the oval office.
Who is William McKinley?
Laws upheld by the Supreme Court during Plessy v. Ferguson.
What are Jim Crowe Laws?
Wrote "A Century of Dishonor."
Who is Helen Hunt Jackson?
He wrote, "Significance of the Frontier in American History"
Who is Frederick Jackson Turner?
Took place in Niagara Falls, Canada and wanted to end discrimination and segregation.
What is the Niagara Movement?
McKinley's campaign manager who built huge war chests funds.
Who is Mark Hanna?
Cartoonist who satirized colored versus white facilities.
Who is John McCutchen?
Religious movement by Native Americans that hoped to see the return of buffalo and the elimination of whites.
What is The Ghost Dance?
Document that gives Turner's opinion of the time after the census and the end of the frontier.
What is Turner's Frontier Thesis?
Morphed from the Niagara Movement to this movement around today.
What is the NAACP?
Favored a silver standard.
Supreme Court sided against them and for Louisiana in a 7-1 decision.
Who is Homer Plessy?
One of the final conflicts between of American Soldiers and Natives.
What is Wounded Knee?
The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advancement westward explains this.
What is American Development?
Belief that leaders in the African American community should have full access to education and American life
What is the Talented Tenth?