Notable Figures
Coined the term "New South"
Who is Henry Grady?
What agriculture system was replaced by sharecropping?
What is the plantation system?
One of the main environmental issues with sharecropping.
What is soil depletion?
Animal that was well-known for being herded in the West
What are cows?
Native American tribe that Americans had notable conflicts with
What is the Sioux?
Founded the American Tobacco Company and known for his involvement in a university located in North Carolina.
Who is Buck Duke?
A system where a land owner allows a tenant to use their land in exchange for a share of the crop.
What is sharecropping?
What animal was almost killed to extinction in the West?
What are buffalo?
Invention that made farming in the West possible
What is the steel plow?
The process of becoming similar to others by taking in and using their customs and culture; it occurred with Native Americans
What is Assimilation?
Celebrated bank and train robber who fought for the Confederate Army and was accused of crimes against Union soldiers and abolitionists.
Who is Jesse James?
Southern laws enacted in order to limit political and economic gains made by African Americans during the Reconstruction era.
What are Jim Crow laws?
Wars between Cowboys and Rangers
What are the Range Wars?
Leader of the Sioux
Who is Sitting Bull?
African American author and educator who believed if the black community was built up, segregation would eventually end.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Court case that allowed for separate facilities for black and white people, as long as they were equal.
What two groups repeatedly conflicted during Westward expansion?
What are Americans and Indians/Native Americans?
Name given to African Americans that moved West
What is Exoduster?
Notable battle between the Sioux and Americans.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Developed the Frontier Thesis
Who is Frederick Jackson Turner?
Court case that ruled separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional.
What is Brown vs. Board of Education?
A form of mining that was proved destructive to those downriver and threatening to agriculture.
What is hydraulic mining?
Minerals were newly found in these two states
What is Colorado and Nevada?
What act gave each head of a Native family 150 acres of land?
What is the Dawes Act?