African American Civil Rights Leaders
Who believed in full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans? He also wrote The Crisis.
W.E.B. Dubois
What court case ruled that "separate but equal" was legal within the United States?
Plessy v. Ferguson
What is the term for unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group and its members based on race, gender, or social class?
Discrimination
What was the belief that expansion was for the good of the country and the right of the country?
Manifest Destiny
What territory did Thomas Jefferson buy from France that doubled the size of the United States?
Louisiana Territory
Who was born into slavery on a plantation in Virginia, believed equality could be achieved through vocational education? He also wrote Up From Slavery.
Booker T. Washington
What court case ruled that racial segregation in schools unconstitutional?
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Name the laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites.
Jim Crow Laws
What three economic opportunities led people to move west?
Gold rush, logging, and farming
Who did Thomas Jefferson send to explore the Louisiana Territory?
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
Who was an African-American investigative journalist and activist who exposed lynchings in the South?
Ida B. Wells
The NAACP was founded by white and black activists in response to what?
Violence against African Americans
Did Jim Crow begin during or after Reconstruction?
After Reconstruction
What inventions led to faster and cheaper transportation?
Steamboat, Steam locomotive, and canals
What did the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) do?
It provided a ten year halt on Chinese labor immigration.
Who was an agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton?
George Washington Carver
What does the NAACP stand for?
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
What two things might African American have to do in order to vote?
Pay a poll tax and take a literacy test
What two overland trails helped people move west?
Oregon and Santa Fe
What people group were not considered citizens until 1924 and were restricted to reservations or forced to identify as African Americans if they were not on reservations?
Native Americans
Who founded the Tuskegee Institute and who co-founded the NAACP?
Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois
What is the name for the racially motivated murder of an African American during the Jim Crow era?
Lynching
Name the minstrel performer who popularized the song and dance routine "Jump Jim Crow."
Thomas Dartmouth Rice
What type of growth in eastern states led to people moving west?
Population
What was the significance of the Cotton Gin?
It helped process cotton faster by more efficiently removing the seeds.