Vocab Builder
studied racial prejudice and pushed for protest against unjust treatment.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
This law banned the production, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages throughout the United States.
What is the Eighteenth Amendment?
This person founded what would become the NWP (National Woman's Party).
Who is Alice Paul?
What does NWP stand for?
What is the National Woman's Party?
What minority groups were also discriminated against besides African Americans?
Who are Chinese, Mexican and Native Americans?
More than one million volunteers worked to broaden the right to vote as part of the
What is the National American Woman Sufferage Association?
This law granted American women the right to vote.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?
Although born into slavery, he became a respected educator while in his twenties.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
What does the NAACP stand for?
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
She wrote about this in her newspaper, "Free Speech"
The poor education of African American children.
Who is Alice Paul?
This reformer wrote articles about the unequal education of African American children.
Who is Ida B. Wells.
These discriminatory laws imposed strict qualifications on voters unless their grandfathers had been allowed to vote.
What are grandfather clauses?
What does NAWSA stand for?
What is National American Women Suffrage Association?
With the NWP, Alice Paul used what methods to gain attention towards the suffrage cause?
What are parades, public demonstrations, picketing, and hunger strikes?
Which group fought its battles for justice in the courts?
What is the NAACP?
This state granted women the full right to vote in 1890.
What is Wyoming?
This reformer founded the NAACP in 1909.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
How do you pronounce the acronym for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
The N double A C P.
Name 4 states that allowed women to vote in the 1890's.
Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, and Utah.
Who believed that African Americans should not fight discrimination directly?
This school was founded for female students only in the 1800s.
What is Smith College?
Progressive reform efforts overlooked this minority group.
Who are Chinese?
What does WCTU stand for who fought for laws to restrict the sale of alcohol?
What is the Woman's Christian Temperance Union?
Who was Carry Nation?
A radical temperance fighter.