Indians
This Indian tribe sued the US government and won, non-violently resisting relocation.
Who is the Ponca Indians?
This Compromise removed northern troops from the south beginning the era of Jim Crow.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This is what the "one drop rule" states.
What is if you are 1/8 black, you are African-American?
This is the amount of money inmates would make while working as outsourced labor for private companies.
What is zero or nothing?
This amendment granted former slaves the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This Indian tribe violently resisted relocation.
Who is the Lakota Sioux or Sioux?
Under sharecropping, many former slaves would work for this type of person (hint: most former slaves who were sharecropping worked for this person before).
What is a former slave owner?
Homer Plessy refused to move from this sort of vehicle.
What is railcar?
This is who was making money outsourcing inmates as a labor force.
What is the prison or the warden of the prison?
This amendment allowed for direct election of senators.
What is the 17th Amendment?
This is the battle that George Armstrong Custer lost his life in.
What is the Little Bighorn?
When sharecropping, former slaves would receive this type of wage.
What is a small wage (not large enough to feed family)?
This is the state that Plessy v. Ferguson happened.
What is Louisiana?
Having Black Codes created this dilemma in jails.
What is overcrowding?
This amendment granted citizenship to former slaves.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This massacre happened on a Indian reservation in South Dakota when a rifle was discharged by accident, prompting US troops to start killing an entire tribe.
What is Wounded Knee?
Jim Crow aimed to take away these 3 rights (amendments) of former slaves.
What is the 13th, 14th, and 15 amendments?
This is what made Plessy v. Ferguson important (this is what Plessy v. Ferguson legalized).
What is "separate but equal" or segregation?
What is lynching?
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This act was passed with the intention wiping out Indian culture by killing buffalo, ending communal ownership of land, and providing resources and schooling to help assimilate Natives.
What is the Dawes Act?
Give 2 examples of disenfranchisement of former slaves in the south.
What is literacy tests, own land, or have ancestors who voted?
This is the lone judge who dissented in the Plessy v. Ferguson case.
Who is John Marshall Harlan?
Give 2 examples of Black Codes.
What is curfews, giving whites the right of way on the street, not making direct eye contact, and not being able to try on clothes?
This amendment allowed for a graduated income tax, versus everyone paying the same amount.
What is the 16th Amendment?