Moving West
Provided jobs and led to the growth of towns.
The idea that Americans should settle all land between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
What is Manifest Destiny?
What were the effects of westward expansion?
He believed in learning train skills rather than a formal college education and believed economic equality would lead to racial equality.
Who was Booker T. Washington?
A doctrine that made it legal to have different facilities for Black and White people as long as they were of the same quality.
What was separate but equal?
Black Americans who moved to the West.
Who were exodusters?
Led to thousands of people moving west in hopes to gain large fortunes.
What was the Gold Rush?
The process of forcing Native Americans to adopt American culture.
What is assimilation?
Who was W.E.B. Du Bois?
A set of laws that created restrictions for Black Americans.
What were Jim Crow laws?
Used to keep cattle from roaming away and keep predators from killing animals
What was the purpose of wire?
Used instead of wood and bricks to build houses.
What is sod?
Divided land on reservations into private tracts of land with the goal of becoming subsistence farmers.
What was the Dawes Act?
An organization that fought for the rights of Black Americans.
What is the NAACP?
Grandfather clauses, literacy tests, and poll taxes.
What were methods of disenfranchisement?
Spanned across the U.S. and took 20 years to complete.
What was the Transcontinental Railroad?
The first state to give women the right to vote.
What is Wyoming?
The U.S. government was worried about Native Americans performing ghost dances. After a gun accidentally went off, shooting began and led to the deaths of 290 Native Americans.
What was the Battle of Wounded Knee?
Wrote about lynchings in the South.
Who was Ida B. Wells?
Created with funding from the Second Morrill Act to establish schools specifically for Black students.
What are HBCUs?
Granted 160 acres of land to citizens who lived on it for a minimum of five years
What was the Homestead Act?
Granted land to states to fund universities that specialized in agricultural science and mechanics.
What was the Morrill Land Grant Act?
Lakota natives refused to move onto a reservation and led to the total defeat of General Custer's calvary.
What was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Channeled her civil rights efforts through organizations that helped Black women.
Who was Mary Church Terrell?
Began when a man was arrested for sitting in a Whites only train car and established the doctrine of separate but equal.
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?