APUSH Unit 6 Quiz 1 Evers

Supported states and white supremecy. Used Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, literacy tests, and property qualifications to regain control of the south. democrates in power in southern states after reconstruction: supported by business community and white supremacists

American botanist, agricultural chemist, and educator who developed hundreds of uses for the peanut, soybean, and sweet potato, prompting Southern farmers to produce these soil-enriching cash crops

Black educational institution founded by Booker T. Washington to provide training in agriculture and crafts

a 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal

The "separate but equal" segregation laws state and local laws enacted in the Southern and border states of the United States and enforced between 1876 and 1965

A clause in registration laws allowing people who do not meet registration requirements to vote if they or their ancestors had voted before 1867

a tax of a fixed amount per person and payable as a requirement for the right to vote

A test administered as a precondition for voting, often used to prevent African Americans from exercising their right to vote.

One of the means used to discourage African-American voting that permitted political parties in the heavily Democratic South to exclude African Americans from primary elections, thus depriving them of a voice in the real contests.

Prominent black American, born into slavery, who believed that racism would end once blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society

Republican, assassinated by Charles Julius Guiteau after a few months in office due to lack of patronage

president, Republican, revitalized the US Navy and ironically lead the charge of civil service reform

Democrat, Honest and hardworking, fought corruption, vetoed hundreds of wasteful bills, achieved the Interstate Commerce Commission and civil service reform, violent suppression of strikes

Republican, introduced the McKinley Tariff and increased federal spending to a billion dollars

Denied any additional Chinese laborers to enter the country while allowing students and merchants to immigrate.

forced migration of massive numbers of cattle to the railroads where they could be shipped to the East

it gave 160 acres of public land to any settler who would farm the land for five years.

legislation to encourage the construction of a transcontinental railroad, connecting the West to industries in the Northeast (Union Pacific and Central Pacific RR)

series of conflicts between the US Army / settlers and different Native American tribes; problems with Settlers and Plains Indians

areas of federal land set aside for American Indians, Parcels of land set aside by the federal government for the Native Americans.

American Indian medicine man, chief, and political leader of his tribe at the time of the Custer massacre during the Sioux War; killed in order for US govt to end the Ghost Dance movement

Sioux warrior who ambushed Captain William Fetterman and his company at long trail ridge on the Bozeman trail. Over 80 soldiers killed. Native Americans call this fight Battle of The Hundred Slain. Whites called it the Fetterman Massacre., a chief of the Sioux who resisted the invasion of the Black Hills and joined Sitting Bull in the defeat of General Custer at Little Bighorn (1849-1877)

him and his men were wiped out by a coalition of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, United States general who was killed along with all his command by the Sioux at this battle

A writer. Author of the 1881 book A Century of Dishonor. The book exposed the U.S. governments many broken promises to the Native Americans. For example the government wanted Native Americans to assimilate, i.e. give up their beliefs and ways of life, that way to become part of the white culture.

Written by Helen Hunt Jackson, it detailed the injustices made to Native Americans during US expansion and assimilation of them

A process of socializing people so that they adopt dominant social norms and patterns of behavior.

1879-1918. was a school intended to "americanize" indian children to try to adapt them to the white culture. most children eventually went back to the reservations so the experiment didn't fully work.

Bill that promised Indians tracts of land to farm in order to assimilate them into white culture. The bill was resisted, uneffective, and disastrous to Indian tribes

a Native American movement that called for a return to traditional ways of life and challenged white dominance in society

In 1890, after killing Sitting Bull, the 7th Cavalry rounded up Sioux at this place in South Dakota and 200 Natives were murdered and only a baby survived.