Discriminatory legislation
The 1882 law that prohibited Chinese from immigrating to the U.S.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Battle between Custer's Seventh Cavalry and the Sioux Native Americans.
What is Little Big Horn?
Laws passed in several mid western states that were promoted by farmers.
What are the Granger laws?
The activist who co-founded the NAACP with W.E.B. DuBois.
Author of "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" that put forth the idea that the Western Frontier had defined American History.
Who is Fredrick Jackson Turner?
Set of laws designed to enforce segregation in the south
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
The 1864 attack where as many as 200 Cheyenne Native Americans were killed by the Colorado militia.
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
Political party created by Farmers Alliance.
What is populist party?
The teacher and writer who helped found the NAACP in 1909
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
Botanist who promoted alternative crops to cotton such as peanuts, soybeans, & sweet potatoes
Who is George Washington Carver?
Supreme court ruling "Separate but equal"
What is Plessy V. Ferguson?
The Native American religious movement warning of the evils of the white man and a second coming of Christ.
What is Ghost Dance?
Creating multiple farmer lobbyist organizations like the Farmers Alliance.
What is the Ocala Platform?
A vocational college for African Americans in Alabama, founded by Booker T. Washington.
What is the Tuskegee Institute?
Leader of the Nez Percés who surrendered after trying to lead a group of Indian refugees to Canada.
Who is Chief Joseph?
Allowing someone to vote only if their grandfather could, after reconstruction.
What is the Grandfather Clause?
1890 confrontation between U.S. and Sioux that marked the end of Indian resistance.
What is Wounded Knee?
Law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry.
What is the Interstate Commerce At?
African-American leader who did not believe in challenging segregation.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Commander of U.S. troops at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Who is George A. Custer?
Supreme court cases that allowed racial discrimination in public accomidations.
What are the Civil Rights Cases of 1883?
Act that ended communal ownership of the Native land and divided it into plots to be owned by individual Native Americans.
What is the Dawes Act?
Court case that gave U.S. federal government the right to regulate private industry.
What is Munn V. Illinois?
United States writer of romantic novels about the unjust treatment of Native Americans.
Who is Helen Hunt Jackson?