Native American Struggles
This was the Act that sought to help assimilate Indians into 'white' society
Dawes Act of 1887
This is the year gold was DISCOVERED in Coloma California.
1848
This was the hate group threatening and lynching black in the South during Reconstruction era
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes
This was the rite practiced at Wounded Knee massacre that caused whites to fearfully fire and kill innocent Natives
The Ghost Dance
This ethnic group was "abused for labor" and responsible in large part for the construction of the TCR
Chinese immigrants
The courthouses would infrequently use this tool to effectively restrict blacks from voting (when the few were so brave enough to attempt)
What are literacy tests?
He was responsible for arresting John Brown, later famously initiated Confederate surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
Who is Robert E. Lee
This was the mammal Indian's held sacred that were nearly driven to extinction from white settlers
Buffalo (tatanka)
Clara Brown was famous for....?
Becoming a successful and wealthy woman in Colorado- financing the immigration of 20-30 former slaves for a new life in the West.
This was the Black Code fining homeless blacks and ultimately reinstitution a now 'legal' form of slavery
What are vagrancy laws?
This was the tribe who fought against and eventually overwhelmed and defeated General George Custer
Who was the Lakota Tribe
He was the rebel leader of Apache refugees in the 1880s, escaping imprisonment several times with rebels but eventually surrendering in 1886.
Who is Geronimo
Chinese immigrants risked life and limb in the Sierra Nevadas creating the railroad paths, name specific dangers they endured
Segregation from whites, use of explosives in mountainside, scurvy from lack of proper diet and vitamin C, illness with close proximity, living under snow tunnels in winter
What are Carpetbaggers and Scalawags
She was responsible for bringing Women's suffrage to Idaho, 2nd state to do so. (Also first woman elected to political office in Idaho legislature 1897)
Who is Rebecca Mitchell
From the map station on the iPad, we learned of 'ceded' land by Indian tribes over the past century- what does cede define refer to in this context?
To yield or grant territory, usually with a treaty
This was the gentleman who discovered gold at the now famous Sutters Mill?
This was the government organization responsible for assisting newly freed blacks and helping support them medically/financially following the War
Who is the Freedman's Bureau
She was the main character in the movie on Chinese Women to the West, Thousand Pieces of Silver
Who is Lalu Nathoy or Polly Bemis