Westward Expansion
The railroad that drove people out west for work was called the...
Transcontinental Railroad
The Battle of Little Big Horn
This is a murder, usually by mob, that also involves torture.
Lynching
Laws regarding the legal separation of African Americans are known as
What happened in California in 1849?
The California Gold Rush
Name 3 factors that drove people out west.
Manifest Destiny, Railroad work, Homestead act/ Farming, Gold Rush etc..
Where were Native Americans relocated to? What are the conditions?
Reservations that have less than standard condition.
This new system replaces the plantation system in the South. In which poor people and newly freed slaves can farm a portion of a large landowners farm in return for a share of the harvest.
Sharcropping
List three ways that an African American could be disenfranchised in the south.
Poll taxes, Literacy tests, Grandfather clauses, Violence..
Towns that sprang up quickly in the West were called what and what happened when the Gold dried up?
Boom Towns then Ghost Towns
Chinese, African Americans, Mexicans, Irish, NAtive Americans...
What was the purpose of the Buffalo genocide?
To starve or kill Native Americans in the West.
This test was designed to be nearly impossible to pass adn was used to disenfranchise Black Voters.
Literacy Test
This supreme court case ruled that 'Separate but Equal' is equal and does not violate the Constitution.
Plessy v. Ferguson
This political party tried to help farmers by minting silver instead of gold.
The Populist Party.
The belief that Americans have the God Given right to expand out west is known as...
Manifest Destiny
This act broke up Native Lands and sold it to settlers in the west for farming.
The Dawes Act
13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
This person argued that African Americans should not fight for their rights now but instead should work to better themselves first.
Booker T. Washington
The government sent Native American Children to boarding schools to do what?
Americanize them
Explain the Homestead Act.
Gives 160 acres of land to homesteaders with the understanding that if they farm the land for 5 years, it will become their for free.
Explain the concept of Native American Assimilation
Killing the culture of Native Americans to integrate them into white society.
Name of the 1/8th black man accused of sitting in a whites only train car, thus violating Jim Crow laws.
Homer Plessy
The person heavily criticized Booker T. Washington and argued that African Americans should fight for their rights now.
WEB Du Bois
List at least 4 issues farmers faced in the west.
Natural disasters everywhere, animal problems, deep root systems, sod is very thick and difficult to cut through, droughts, etc..