What is an annual tax that had to be paid before qualifying to vote?
Poll Tax
100
Which ethnic group was hired to construct railroads in the Southwest?
Mexicans
100
Moved to the North to continue her fight against lynching by writing, lecturing, and organizing for civil rights.
Ida B. Wells
200
What is a clause that stated that even if a man could not pass the Literacy Test or could not afford the poll tax, he was entitled to vote if he, his father, or his grandfather had been eligible to vote before January 1, 1867.
Grandfather Clause
200
How many ethnic groups were in the West and who were they?
4 - Native Americans, Asians, Mexicans, and African Americans
200
Argued for a gradual approach to racial equalit-suggested that they must work their way up from the bottom
Booker T. Washington
300
What is a test that you had to pass to show that you can read in order to vote?
Literacy Test
300
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
An act that banned the entry of Chinese to the U.S. except for students, teachers, merchants, tourists, and government officials.
300
Denounced Booker T. Washington's views. Demanded full social and economic equality for African Americans, declaring that "persistent manly agitation is the way to liberty." Also, founded the Niagara Movement and wrote The Crisis
W.E.B. Du Bois
400
What is the "Jim Crow Laws"?
Racial segregation laws that separated white and black people in public and private facilities.
400
A system that bound laborers into slavery in order to work off a debt to the employer.
Debt Peonage
400
Informal rules and customs related to discrimination that regulated relationships between whites and blacks.
Racial Etiquette
500
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
A legal case that the Supreme Court ruled that the separation of races in public accommodations was legal and did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment. They used the term "Separate but Equal."
500
What is the 1902 National Reclamation Act?
It is a U.S. federal law proclaimed in 1902, to provide funds for irrigation of lands in 20 West states. It is also called Newlands Reclamation Act.