The army, farmers and hunters agreed that this was an important step in settling the West.
What is the massive hunting and near extinction of buffalo?
100
Applying and assuming that all members of a group are alike.
What is stereotyping?
100
Conditions women faced during the 19th century.
What are few rights, can't vote, under husband's control?
100
Some examples are long hours, low pay, dangerous conditions, and child labor.
What are working conditions in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
100
This Supreme Court case overturned the concept from "Plessy v. Ferguson" that "Separate But Equal" was legal in American schools.
What is "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS"?
200
What 1830 law authorized the government to force tribes off their lands?
What is the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
200
This law outlawed the immigration of people from China from the 1880s to the 1940s.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
200
This was the first organized meeting to state that women were deserving of equality and included a rewrite of the Declaration of Independence.
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
200
When workers join together in an effort to achieve common goals in the workplace.
What is a union?
200
This event was important for two reasons, it ended segregated buses an helped start the career of Martin Luther King, Jr. a very important Civil Rights leader.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
300
The Supreme Court ruled that this tribe had a right to their land and should not be forced from it.
Who are the Cherokee?
300
Having a negative opinion about members of a group before getting to know them.
What is prejudice?
300
She was a key leader for a woman's right to vote and had an unfair trial due to her actions.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
300
He founded the American Federation of Labor for skilled workers and was instrumental in gaining the 8 hour working day.
Who is Samuel Gompers?
300
The method most effective during the Civil Rights Movement.
What is nonviolence?
400
President Andrew Jackson ignored a Supreme Court ruling and had the military force the Cherokee to move from Georgia to a reservation in Oklahoma. This forced march is called this.
What is the Trail of Tears
400
The Yick Wo v. Hopkins case, concerning Chinese owned laundries, was important to extend these 14th Amendment rights to non-citizens.
What is equal protection of the law?
400
The name of the effort to give American women the right to vote and the name of a member of the movement.
What is the Suffrage Movement / Suffragette?
400
When workers stop work in order to put economic pressure on managers in an effort to gain better conditions. "Bread and Roses" and "Homestead" are examples in which violence was used to end it.
What is a strike?
400
This important rally of some 250,000 Americans in Washington, DC, the highlight of which was MLK's "I have a dream" speech, was key to the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
What is "The March on Washington"?
500
The Indian Citizenship Act was passed in this year allowing Native Americans to become US citizens.
What is 1924?
500
Japanese Americans were relocated to them during WWII.
What are Interment Camps?
500
In 1920, this gave women in the US the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
500
When workers / unions and managers come to an agreement about working conditions due to discussions.
What is negotiations / collective bargaining?
500
The impact of Bull Connor's use of force against peacefully demonstrating African Americans, many of whom were school age kids.
What is national outrage and support for the Civil Rights Movement.