Progressive Era
The Progressive Era began in roughly what year?
1890
This is the topic of the Plessy case
Segregation (train cars)
The women's suffrage movement aimed to do what?
Attain the right to vote for women
This is the strategy used to accomplish to 10-hour rule in Oregon
Lobbying
The Progressive Era was a time of great what?
Political, economic, and social reform
The court ruling in this case set what precedent?
The "separate but equal" precedent
Who lead the NAWSA?
Susan B. Anthony
What was the specific cause of the first NAACP meeting?
Major race riots in American cities
This is was a key issue of the era, revolving around people our age
Child labor
This was the split of the Court on the Plessy verdict
7-1
What was the name of the documentation the NCL used to win its SCOTUS case?
The Brandeis Briefs
Which President was the first to submit an amicus (third party) brief to SCOTUS, in opposition to segregation?
President Truman
Monopoly
These laws were struck down by the Court after the Plessy case
Peonage laws
This Amendment gave women the right to vote
The 19th Amendment
Where did Homer Plessy attempt to board a "whites only" train car?
New Orleans, Louisiana
This Southern system found itself at great odds with the Progressive Era
Jim Crow
Who was the lone dissenter in the Court's ruling?
Justice John Marshall Harlan
The successes of women's suffrage originally only applied to this group
White women
What was the name of one of the founders of the NAACP?
W.E.B. Du Bois or Oswald Garrison Villard