People
Active in Women's Rights and Suffrage Movement
Who is Ida B. Wells
A clause in registration laws allowing people who do not meet registration requirements to vote if they or their ancestors have voted before 1867
What is the Grandfather Clause
A movement to increase farmers political power and to work for legislation in their interest
What is Populism
Case that advanced the controversial "separate but equal" doctrine for assessing the constitutionality of racial segregation laws
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
Massacre in the American Indian Wars that occurred on November 29, 1864
What is the Sand Creek Massacre
Founder of the Tuskegee Institute
Who is Booker T Washington
A set of laws designed to address railroad discrimination against small farmers
What is the Granger Laws
A vocational college for Africans Americans in Alabama, founded by Booker T. Washington
What is Tuskegee Institute
Supreme Court case in which the court upheld the power of government to regulate private industries
What is Munn v. Illinois
A great battle between Sioux, Crazy Horse, and George Custer
What is Little Bighorn
Black Activist, Primarily concerned with the nature and intersection of race and class
Who is W.E.B DuBois
State laws in the south that legalized segregation
What is the Jim Crow laws
Supported lowering the tariff to support the poorest people
What is the Ocala Platform
Blacks were protected against state action to limit their rights but not against individual actions- declared Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional
What is the Civil Rights cases of 1883
Paper money which is not connected to a treasury or gold supply, favored by debtors so their debts could be payed off for lose, when issued caused depreciation
What is Soft Money
An African American Farmer who helped farmers of the south by teaching them better ways to farm
Who is George Washington Carver
Dismantled American indian tribes, set up individuals as family heads with 160 acres
What is the Dawes Severalty Act
Gave the Interstae Commerce Commission the power regulate railroads
What is the Interstate Commerce Act
New religious movement incorporated into many American Indian belief system
What is the Ghost Dance
Leader of Nez Perce. Fled with his tribe to Canada instead of reservations. However, US troops came and fought and brought them back down to reservations
Who is Chief Joseph
Wrote the "Frontier Thesis"
Frederick Jackson Turner
Federal law signed by President Chester A. Authur on May 6 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act
Massacre occurred on December 29, 1890 on the Lokota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
What is Wounded Knee
An author who wrote "A Century of Dishonor" which chronicled the government's actions against the Indians
Who is Helen Hunt Jackson