The West
Military blunder for Col. Custer and his troops
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
The amendment that formally abolished slavery in the U.S.
What is the 13th?
Grant's campaign slogan and general policy was "Let there be ___"?
What is Peace?
Women of all races were caught in the fray of this major conflict, making economic prosperity a bleak hope.
What is The Civil War?
A process in which farmers worked land they did not own and traded a set percentage of their annual yield for the right to work the field the next season. The ratios of what they could make was often based on the amount of tools they needed, domestic animals, they needed to rent and whether they needed to live on the land.
What is sharecropping?
This act, signed in 1862, is the largest land act distribution act in the United States. With a $28 registration fee, you could stake a "free" claim to 160 acres.
What is the Homestead Act?
The laws in the south enacted before "Jim Crow" to prevent the advancement of Black people.
A spell of economic depression in the late 1800s due to a withdrawal of greenbacks from circulation (a result of Grant's policy to stave off inflation).
A space where women could enjoy some social mobility and improve their status.
The founder and 1st President of the Tuskegee Institute
Who is Booker T. Washington
Who are the Buffalo Soldiers?
the foremost Black educator in the 1890s. Believed that their race should first achieve economic stability that would ultimately provide for the advancement of their social status.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Groups organized by Republicans in former Confederate states to recruit Black voters to join the Republican party. Their encouragement of Black Republicans worried White Democrats. Helped elect Black men to offices throughout the former Confederate states and increasing the enfranchisement of Black male voters.
What are Union Leagues?
Came to public attention when she was denied a seat on a railroad car due to her race. She filed suit and won, but this was overturned on appeal to the Tennessee Supreme Court. From this event she found her life’s calling, and helped found the NAACP in 1909.
Who is Ida B. Wells
What is the Compromise of 1877?
A condition that made eastern suburbanites seem unfit for a successful life in the world, and the survivalist, competitive, aggressive exercise cures being the West.
What is neurasthenia?
In 1896, the Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal so long as both races received the same quality of accommodations or services.
What is Plessy vs Ferguson?
Court said 14th Amendment did not protect individuals against the actions of other individuals.
What is U.S. vs. Cruikshank?
Black Women were primarily schoolteachers and nurses under the government organization known as ___.
What is The Freedmen's Bureau?
Tenant farming in the south was based on credit for this reason.
Who is Joseph Glidden?
What are The Slaughterhouse Cases?
Prohibits individuals from assembling or disguising themselves with the intent to violate African Americans’ constitutional rights.
What are the Enforcement Acts?
A former slave who lived in Montana and worked as a hired hand. 1st woman to be a star route postwoman in the U.S.
Stagecoach Mary
Ely Parker was a chief in this American Indian Nation.