These two families serve as foils for each other throughout the book, most notably coming together when a doctor is called upon to save a young boy. They eventually show the interlocking fates of white and black people in America
What is The Merkels and The Carterets
100
this order by President Abraham Lincoln freed slaves in 1863
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
100
This act gave 5 acres of native land to enterprising American citizens (re: white men and their families) in 1862
What is the Homestead Act
100
this non-lethal battle tactic was used by native warriors to show bravery and skill in the face of grave danger
What is counting coup
100
This woman and wife to a U.S. Senator totally bought the argument that black people were racially inferior in every way, and were not fit to live with whites. She especially felt that black men were rapists who favored only white women, and that the solution was lynching.
Who is Rebecca Latimer Felton
200
This historical event served as the backdrop of Chesnutt's fictional town
What is The Wilmington Riot of 1898
200
This 1868 constitutional amendment wrote into law that all people born in the united states would be considered citizens
What is the 14th amendment
200
The brutal murders of many Arapaho and Southern Cheyenne women and children led by Colonel Chivington in 1864 went on to be know as...
What is the Sand Creek Massacre or The Battle at Sand Creek
200
This boarding school founded in 1879 for native american children served to assimilate them into American culture by stripping them of their "Indianness"
What is the Carlisle Industrial School
200
In 1925 this African American man protected his newly purchased home against a mob of angry white people, and was surprisingly acquitted of murder by an all-white jury. his trial became an important 2nd amendment case for self defense/"stand your ground"
Who is Ossain Sweet.
300
This child somehow constantly finds himself in harms way
Who is Dodie
300
Freed African Americans could go here to negotiate their sharecropping contract with their former master
What is the Freedman's Bureau
300
This 1868 treaty pushed the Sioux tribes onto "reservation land," land that was quickly encroached upon by settlers once gold was discovered by General Custer in the Black Hills.
What is the Treaty of Fort Laramie
300
Booker T. Washington asked both African Americans and White people to do this action to unite and move forward
What is "cast down your bucket where you are"
300
This fictional slave-turned-servant to Mr.Delamere represented the "old south generation" and represent those freed slaves who stayed very close to their former lives
Who is Sandy
400
This movement was associated with the uplift of middle class African Americans through fashion, material possessions, and high culture.
What is The New Negro Movement
400
A democratic propaganda pamphlet distributed during the 1863 presidential election saw the creation of this term
What is miscegenation
400
Richard Henry Pratt, a Lieutenant who is infamously quoted in saying "kill the Indian, save the man," also is known for using this location as a place to experiment with imprisoned native soldiers with drawing.
What is Fort Marion.
400
W.E.B. Du Bois coined this as THE problem of the 20th century
What is the problem of the color line
400
This white woman, using eerily similar reasoning to Indian boarding schools, called for the enlistment of inferior black folk in the name of national uplift.
Who is Charlotte Perkins Gillman
500
Name the three relevant "eras" or generations represented by the characters
What is "old south" "post reconstruction" and "turn of the 20th century"
500
The election of this president in 1876 marked the end of reconstruction
Who Rutherford B. Hayes
500
This famous native warrior depicted battle at Little Bighorn through his drawing of ledger art
Who is Sitting Bull
500
This 1896 court case challenged Jim Crow laws in the south, and determined that separate was, in fact, equal. This decision would have major impact on many areas of public life (for example - public transportation).
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
500
This native warrior was central to the Sand Creek Massacre story, and was known for attempting to signal to Chivington's soldiers that the native camp was peaceful by flying an American Flag and a white flag. these signals were ignored.