Reconstruction
This new system of labor allowed ex-slaves a little freedom to grow their own food, but it still left them dependent on white landlords.
What is sharecropping?
Jane Addams was the founder of this settlement house in Chicago.
This finally ended the Great Depression.
What is World War II?
This was the main strategy used in the Pacific Theater.
The case Brown v. Board of Education overturned the "separate but equal" clause in what previous Supreme Court case.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This piece of legislation made all native-born or naturalized people U.S. citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
For President Wilson this was the most important part of World War I peace negotiations.
What is the League of Nations?
This group cost President Hoover his public support when they marched on Washington D.C.
What is the Bonus Army?
This program allowed the U.S. to give war supplies to the Allies before the U.S. was officially involved in the war.
For much of his life Malcolm X was a follower of this religious group.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Congress passed this 1882 act as a favor to the Workingmen's Party who wanted to keep California white.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
The Universal Negro Improvement Association was founded by this man.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
Richard Nixon said he spoke for this group in the 1968 presidential election.
What is the Silent Majority?
The Greensboro sit-ins led to the formation of this Civil Rights organization.
What is the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?
This was meant to nullify Black codes in the South by confirming Black Southerners' "full and equal benefit of all laws."
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
This law divided up reservations and gave pieces of land to individual Native people as private property.
What is the Dawes Allotment Act?
This program from the New Deal, which provided electricity to underserved areas, still exists today even though it was meant to be temporary.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
This event in 1968 was considered a military failure but was actually a political and social success because it made more Americans disapprove of the Vietnam War.
A group of Native American activists occupied this prison off the coast of San Francisco in 1969.
What is Alcatraz Island?
The group of Southern Democrats, known as this, promised to replace what they called bayonet rule with home rule.
Who are Redeemers?
This person became very influential in the 1890s by arguing lynching was a problem of both race and gender.
Who is Ida B. Wells?
What is the Johnson-Reed Act?
This presidential policy ended discrimination within the defense industry.
What is Executive Order 8802?
This Supreme Court chief justice was known for many landmark decisions that protected disadvantaged groups during the 1950s and 1960s.