Native Americans
This 1887 law broke up tribal land to encourage assimilation.
What is the Dawes Act?
This labor union, led by Samuel Gompers, focused on wages, reducing work hours, and other pragmatic aims.
What is the AFL?
This reformer founded Hull House to aid immigrants in Chicago.
Who is Jane Addams?
This 1896 case upheld segregation under “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This term describes how societies remember—or forget—the past.
This 1890 massacre ended the Indian Wars.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
Farmers supported this party to fight monopolies and railroads.
What is the Populist Party?
These journalists exposed corruption and social injustice through writing and photos.
Who are the Muckrakers?
He promoted vocational education and gradual equality.
This 1915 film, praised by Wilson, glorified the Ku Klux Klan.
What is "The Birth of a Nation?"
These schools attempted to “kill the Indian, save the man.”
What are Indian boarding schools?
This 1886 event turned extremely violent and damaged public support for unions.
What is the Haymarket Affair?
Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle led to this law protecting food and drugs.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
He demanded immediate civil rights and helped found the NAACP.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
This 1899 cartoon showed Uncle Sam “teaching” U.S. colonies in a classroom.
What is the "School Begins" cartoon?
U.S. officials claimed this policy helped “civilize” Native peoples, but it led to land loss.
What is assimilation?
Progressive reformers aimed to regulate these powerful corporate structures.
What are monopolies?
Progressive reformers believed the government should play this kind of role in social problems.
What is an Active government role in reform?
Marcus Garvey believed Black Americans should pursue this instead of integration.
What is Black Nationalism?
These events from 1917 to 1920 demonstrate how the U.S. utilized law to suppress dissent and radicals.
What are the Espionage Act and the Palmer Raids?
Native resistance and culture were often excluded from textbooks to promote this national myth.
What is the myth of manifest destiny?
Labor struggles are often forgotten in favor of this “rags to riches” American myth.
What is the American Dream?
Some reforms, like sanitation, were widely praised in the 1910s and 1920s—but reforms addressing this remained controversial
What is civil rights, or racial justice?
The Harlem Renaissance was a response to this cultural and political exclusion.
What is racial identity and cultural expression?
This concept determines what people can know or believe about history, based on their social position and access to power.
What is perspective?