Election of 1896
This famous speech was given by William Jennings Bryan during the Election of 1896.
What is the Cross of Gold speech?
This legislation abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This people lived from approximately the Rockies in Colorado to the Mississippi River and hunted primarily buffalo.
Who are the Plains Indians?
This legislation granted 160 acres to anyone who was willing to move out west and settle and develop the land of the Frontier.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
Who said this quote: "IN ALL THINGS THAT ARE PURELY SOCIAL WE CAN BE AS SEPARATE AS THE FINGERS, YET ONE AS THE HAND IN ALL THINGS ESSENTIAL TO MUTUAL PROGRESS".
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This democratic political candidate lost three elections and was considered a dark horse; he was in favor of Free Silver.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
This man is biracial and was arrested for sitting in the first class section of a white train car; he sued, citing the 14th Amendment; he lost against the Supreme Court 7-1.
Who is Homer Plessy?
Written by Helen Hunt Jackson, this book discussed the relationship between the US government and Native Americans.
What is "A Century of Dishonor"?
This man wrote of the death of the Frontier, and wondered what major effects it would have on American life.
Who is Frederick Jackson Turner?
This movement was comprised of African-American Intellectuals who wanted to end discrimination and segregation; of it, the NAACP was born.
What is the Niagra Movement?
This republican political candidate had five times more money than that of his opponent, and won the election of 1896.
Who is William McKinley?
This man was ahead of his time in condemning the philosophy behind Jim Crow Laws; he was against separate but equal.
Who is John Marshall Harlan?
This legislation's goal was to assimilate Native Americans, and it devised Native Tribes to be dissolved and families to receive 160 acres of land. It resulted in many Native children going to boarding school and a radical lifestyle change.
What is the Dawes Act (1887)?
This piece of literature begged the question of what America would do now that it has achieved its manifest destiny.
What is Turner's Frontier Thesis?
This agreement among black leaders stated that blacks and whites should find ways to coexist and accept segregation in exchange for economic opportunities.
What is the Atlanta Compromise?
This man built a huge war chest of funds and was essentially William McKinley's campaign manager.
Who is Mark Hanna?
These pieces of legislation determined that whites and blacks would be given separate but equal facilities and rights.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This was a series of wars throughout the second half of the 19th century involving the Indians of the Sioux region.
What are the Sioux Wars?
This is the year when no Frontier line was visible in the United States for the first time.
What is 1890?
This man was born in VA as a slave and established the Tuskegee Institue in AL; he believed in education, specifically vocational training, for African Americans.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
This situation hurt many Americans, but especially farmers; put at most 20% of Americans into unemployment.
What is the Panic of 1893?
This court case, in the end, strengthened Jim Crow Laws and determined that the separate but equal philosophy was okay.
What is the Plessy v. Ferguson Case?
This was a religious movement by Native Americans, by which they hoped to see a return of the buffalo; many Americans were afraid of it.
What is the Ghost Stance?
These charged occurrences were part of why so many people were willing to move out West.
What are Gold Rushes?
This man was born in 1868 in Massachusetts and received a doctorate from Harvard; he opposed Booker T. Washington's accommodation policies; Malcom X type figure.
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?