Reconstruction and Black Americans
The extrajudicial murder of an individual, usually done by mob violence and often a hanging, done for an alleged crime
What is lynching?
What is unionization?
This Act was passed in the 1880s and broke up native reservations in to individual family homesteads and removed the last semblance of land sovereignty for natives
What is the Dawes Act?
The largest temperance organization, this group was for female reformers and emphasized how alcohol consumption hurt families.
What is the Women's Christian Temperance Union?
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
De jure segregation, meaning the law of the land, which was codified in the New South after Reconstruction
What is Jim Crow?
This ideology came from the theory of evolution and survival of the fittest and argued for a natural order or hierarchy and was used to explain why elites had all the money and the poor remained poor
What is Social Darwinism?
This was first finished in 1869 and connected the west and eastern halves of the United States, causing rapid expansion out west and impacting immigration, urbanization, and a national economy.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This reformer was most-well known for starting a settlement house, Hull House in Chicago, but was also a eugenicist.
Who is Jane Addams?
This act criminalized anti-war and anti-government speech and was used to instill patriotism (must get the year too)
What is the Sedition Act of 1918?
An ideology that was spread throughout the former Confederacy and the rest of the United States that downplayed the role of slavery in the Civil War
What is the Lost Cause?
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
This act was passed during the Civil War and allowed for individual people and/or their families to have a plot of land 160 acres that became theirs if they lived on and improved the land for a minimum of five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
This organization was founded in 1898 and sought to prevent the annexation of the Philippines after the Spanish-American war and prevent the US from colonizing other places.
What is the Anti-Imperialism League?
This epidemic impacted the outcome of World War I and overall killed around 50 million people (but not Edward Cullen).
What is the Spanish Flu?
This led to the removal of troops from the south and signaled the end of Reconstruction and gave Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This strike occurred at the end of Reconstruction and signaled a change in labor dynamics as thousands struck in the same industry across the country and even destroyed property but were retaliated against with police and state militia
This native uprising occurred after Minnesota became a state, and the white population went from 6,000 to 150,000 in less than a decade. A decisive loss for the native group, the militia was brought out and thousands of natives were taken as POWs and many tried, hundreds, convicted of war crimes, and hundreds of natives killed in a camp, and 38 executed for war crimes. Overall, the natives also lost their remaining reservation land and were forced out west.
This man was called the "conservation president" and attempted to regulate---though not collapse---monopolies and trusts.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This list sought to create lasting peace through disarmament, collective security, and creating the League of Nations.
What is the 14 points?
This Black female writer had a long career as an anti-lynching activist in the US and abroad after three of her friends were lynched
Who is Ida B. Wells?
This political party gained power in the south and midwest after 1877 with a goal of returning power back to individual farmers and helped spread Populism, but could not overcome the issue of white supremacy in the New South.
What is the Farmers' Alliance?
This type of ceremonial or ritual practices was done as form of rebellion and protection by natives, but was wiped out after hundreds of Lakota were killed by the US Army after being removed (name the practice and the massacre).
What are Ghost Dances and Wounded Knee?
What is Muscular Christianity?
This Black activist hoped that Black men joining the army would help lead to civil liberties and protected voting rights once the war ended.
Who is W. E. B. Du Bois?