Jim Crow Era
The time period that took place after the Civil War was called the _______ period because the country needed to reunite the states, rebuild the damage from war, and integrate freed slaves.
Reconstruction
Transcontinental Railroad
This animal was purposefully almost wiped out into extinction in order to disrupt the Plains Native Americans' resources and force them to live on reservations.
Buffalo
This minstrel character played by white men in "blackface" was a negative portrayal of African American stereotypes and became the symbol of the Era of discrimination for African Americans.
Jim Crow
The ideal that every citizen of the United States should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative was known as the ____ _____.
American Dream
One type of Jim Crow laws were designed to keep African Americans _________ from white Americans.
segregated
The discovery of precious metals like ___ in the Western USA drove many people to migrate their despite already being occupied by Native Americans.
Gold, Silver
This was founded in 1867 to advance methods of agriculture, as well as to promote the social and economic needs of farmers in the United States. They also teamed with the Greenback, Populist, and later the Progressive Political Parties.
The Grange
Born in 1868, he wanted African Americans to challenge the discrimination and segregation faced by African Americans in courts so he and other founded the NAACP.
W.E.B. Dubois
The political party that emerged during the late 1800's who advocated for farmers and left wing policies. It collapsed in 1896 when it nominated William Jennings Bryan for president but the campaign failed.
Populist Party
This terrorist organization was created by former Confederate soldiers to resist any advancement of the rights of African Americans. They were known to intimidate people by burning crosses on their lawns.
Ku Klux Klan
This disease killed upwards of 90% of Native American populations in American when it was introduced by European colonists.
Smallpox
One of the worst Supreme Court rulings ever, this court case decided that segregation in American was legal as long as everything was "separate but equal"
Plessy Vs Ferguson
This muckraker was well known for exposing the racial terror lynchings occurring during the Jim Crow Era by documenting them for all to see.
Ida B. Wells
This a way to continue excluding African Americans from voting but allowing poor or illiterate whites to vote. This was because many voting laws required poll taxes and literacy tests that could be avoided if you qualified for the ______ ______.
Grandfather Clause
Race riots took place in the "Black Wall Street" section of this town in 1921, in which mobs of angry whites destroyed property, injured and killed African Americans.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
This was the idea that the American Continent belonged to "Americans" (mostly just white people) and encouraged US settlers were to keep moving West and settling the land.
Manifest Destiny
The name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century.
Exoduster
He was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against United States government policies including the Battle of Little Bighorn. He was killed by Indian agency police on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation during an attempt to arrest him, at a time when authorities feared that he would join the Ghost Dance movement.
Sitting Bull
The ____ Act was an attempt by the US government to "Americanize" Native Americans by forcing them break up collectively owned Native American lands into individual plots owned by individual Native Americans.
Dawes Act
The song ___ ___ was a song designed to protest the racial terror lynching happening during the Jim Crow Era.
Strange Fruit
The ____ Act gave away government land to anyone who would move West and "improve" the land. It was a major cause of western settlement of the USA.
Homestead
General George Custer was killed in this battle during the Great Sioux War of 1876 in which he was attempting to remove groups of Native Americans who refused to move to reservations in the Black Hills of South Dakota
Battle of Little Bighorn aka the Battle of the Greasy Grass
He wrote the book Up from Slavery, was a director at the Tuskegee Institute, and was an advocate for American American equality. He believed that in the short term African Americans should submit to whites, prove they are equal through education and achievement, and in the long run receive equality.
Booker T. Washington
A Native American movement in which many believed would reunite the living with spirits of the dead, bring the spirits to fight on their behalf, end American Westward expansion, and bring peace, prosperity, and unity to Native American peoples throughout the region.
Ghost Dance