SCHOOLS
The 3 "r's" consisted of what three subjects?
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic
He created and expanded kindergartens all over the US
William Torrey Harris
An annual fee paid by blacks in order to allow them to vote
Poll tax
Why were Native Americans, Asians, and Mexicans not liked on the West Coast
Would work for less money than whites
The name for the type of education that teaches an individual how to be good at a trade like carpentry or plumbing
Vocational
The english translation of the word "Kindergarten"
Garden of Children
He founded the Niagra institute and believed blacks should get a liberal arts education
W.E.B. DuBois
The 3 words that go hand in hand with the Supreme Court decision to legalize segregation
Separate but equal
The amendment number that said no citizen shall be denied protection under the law
14th
by 1900, this percentage of whites attended elementary school
62%
Mandatory ages of kids to attend school in the late 1800's
8-14
A caricature of a disheveled buffoon who is African American
Jim Crow
Informal rules meant to make blacks inferior to whites were called what?
Racial etiquette
Why were Jim Crow laws enacted?
To keep blacks in an inferior position
Between 17880 and 1920, enrollment in colleges went up by this percent
400%
Percentage of African-Americans who attended high school by 1910
3%
Founded the Tuskeegee Institute and believed blacks needed to learn a trade in order to reduce racism
Booker T. Washington
When a mob acts as judge, jury, and executioner it is called what?
Lynching
Mr. Keller said that the most effective way to keep people from gaining power was to...
Deny them education
A system of "slavery" where people worked for free to pay back an employer
Debt peonage
A different word for a school that is run by the Catholic diocese
Parochial
The Supreme court case that legalized segregation
Plessy v Ferguson
This woman was a leading writer who spoke out against the systematic killing of blacks in the South by mobs
Ida B. Wells
Name one of the 3 Boston neighborhoods that Mr. Keller mentioned as being predominantly black in the 1980's
Dorchester, Roxbury, Savin Hill
What year did the Grandfather Clause use as a date to let certain whites vote even if they didn't pass the other 2 tests?
1867