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100
Specific areas set aside by the government for the use of Native Americans, often in tribal groups.
What is a reservation?
100
This is the practice of one group adopting the culture and practices of another groups (in this case minority groups adopting the way of life of whites in America).
What is assimilation?
100
This group was formed when white reformers joined members of the Niagara Movement after the Springfield racial attacks. It devoted itself to helping African Americans be "physically free from peonage, mentally free from ignorance, politically free from disenfrnchisement, and socially free from insult.
What is NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People).
100
The most famous late 19th century Black leader, he believed African Americans should establish their reputations and honest and hardworking before spending time seeking to overturn segregation laws.
Who was Booker T. Washington?
100
The amendment which gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
200
A section of New York City, this was known as the place where African American culture (jazz, literature, etc.) flowered in the 1920's.
What is Harlem?
200
The idea of the government giving land to business interests. This was used by the US government as incentive to the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad to build the Transcontinental line across the United States. Large areas were given on alternating sides of the line.
What is a land grant?
200
This groups pushed for restrictions on drinking and eventually won passage of the 18th Amendment outlawing alcohol across the United States.
What was the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)?
200
The Native American chief who was killed when US officials got nervous about the spreading practice of the Ghost Dance and tried to arrest him. Other were killed in the conflict which became know as Wounded Knee.
Who is Sitting Bull?
300
A battle where Army Colonel George Custer and his force of 250 soldiers came upon a force of 2000 Sioux warriors, led by Crazy Horse, who killed Custer and all of his men.
What is the Battle of the Little Big Horn?
300
This gave women the right to vote across America.
What is the 19th Amendment?
300
This group, formed Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, worked for a constitutional amendment to grant women the right to vote.
What is National Women's Suffrage Association?
300
Using the biblical reference, this was the name given to former slaves who moved from the South to the Plains (Kansas and Oklahoma primarily) under the Homestead Act to settle on their own farms.
What is an "Exoduster"?
300
The unofficial ambassador of Jazz.
Who was Louis Armstrong?
400
Marcus Garvey was convicted of mail fraud for soliciting donations to this company, which sought to both expand Black entrepreneurship, as well as foster the Back to Africa Movement, but which later went bankrupt.
What was the Black Star Line?
400
This replaced the reservation system with an allotment system where each Native American family was given 160 acres of farmland.
What is the Dawes Act (the Dawes Severalty Act).
400
Its purpose is the defend Jews and others from against verbal and physical attacks, false statements, and to secure justice and fair treatment to all citizens alike.
What is the Anti-Defamation League?
400
A prominent turn of the century African American leader who felt Blacks should not limit themselves to vocational education and that voting was their right, not a privilege they needed to earn.
Who was W. E. B. Du Bois?
400
Author of "If I Must Die", this Jamaican immigrant was considered one of the most militant of the Harlem Renaissance authors.
Who was Claude McKay?
500
Because they resented losing their land in the Southwest of the United States, this group targeted large ranch owners by cutting their barbed wire and burning houses.
What is Las Gorras Blancas
500
The concept of having different races live and work together in the same society.
What is integration?
500
In several states these groups made loans, provided legal assistance, and offered worker's compensation insurance to Mexican Americans.
What are mutualistas?
500
Born in Jamaica, he led the largest African American mass movement organization to that point in American history.
Who was Marcus Garvey
500
Author of Mules and Men (based on Florida folktales) and Their Eyes Were Watching God (expressing the longing of women for independence).
What was Zora Neale Hurston