Vocabulary
Jim Crow
Westward Expansion
People
Lagniappe
100
the killing of a person by a mob, often by hanging
What is lynching
100
this ethnic group was the primary target of Jim Crow Laws
Who are African Americans
100
gold, precious metals, better jobs, the Homestead Act, the Transcontinental Railroad, fresh start, escape from Jim Crow
What are reasons people traveled West
100
this group of people were pushed off of the lands which they lived on as settlers moved West; unlike many Americans they viewed land as something shared and sacred
Who are Native Americans
100
Seperate but equal facilties like the Separate Cars Act or separate water fountains were argued to violate this amendment
What is the 14th Amendment
200
________ factors make someone want to leave a place, but _________ factors draw someone to a place
What are PUSH and PULL factors
200
this White Supremacy Group was responsible for a lot of the violence and lynching which took place against African Americans
Who is the KKK
200
the Transcontinental Railroad, the mechanical reaper, the telegraph, barbed wire
What are technological advancements (during Westward Expansion/19th century)
200
this man sat on a whites only railroad car and when asked to move to a train car designated for “Colored” people, refused and was arrested
Who is Homer Plessy
200
This image is an example of what
What is assimilation
300
Laws created during the Jim Crow Era to deprive of a franchise or of a legal right; to deprive of the right to vote
What are Disenfranchisement Laws/ What is disenfranchisement
300
a labor system in which a landowner would rent a portion of his land to a farmer who agreed to raise a cash crop and give a share to the farmer, in exchange for the land and access to a house
What is sharecropping
300
the idea that white Americans were divinely ordained to settle the entire continent of North America
What is Manifest Destiny
300
African Americans who left the South in large scale numbers during the Great Migration for better economic opportunities and an escape from Jim Crow
Who are Exodusters
300
This land grant legislation led to the rapid settlement of territories in the West by offering up to 160 acres of land to settlers who pledged to stay on the land and farm it for 5 years
What is the Homestead Act
400
the process whereby individuals or groups of differing ethnic heritages are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society
What is assimilation/ What is to assimilate
400
This Supreme Court case laid the foundation for the next 70 years of segregation
What is Plessy v Ferguson
400
this act allotted government land to be set aside specifically for colleges devoted to the agricultural and mechanical arts.
What is the Morrill Land Grant Act
400
These people often managed herds of cattle when they moved out West
Who are cowboys
400
Fear and discrimination against Chinese people after the immigration of Chinese laborers to the U.S. led to this immigration policy
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
500
people or objects that are native to a certain region or environment. They may grow there, live there, be produced there, or occur naturally there
What is indigenous
500
Phrase: The Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v Ferguson
What is "separate but equal"
500
this law authorized the President to break up reservation land, which was held in common by the members of a tribe, into small allotments to be parceled out to individuals; forced Natives who accepted land to assimilate into American society in order to become US citizens
What is the Dawes Act
500
W.E.B. Dubois, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells, Thurgood Marshall
Who are Civil Rights activists
500
Conflict between the US army and the Sioux Indians which resulted in the massacre of hundreds of Sioux men, women, and children
What is the Battle of Wounded Knee