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Details Title: Unit 8 Description: Blacks/Women's Rights and the West Total Flash Cards: 38 Created: 04/07/2008 08:33:31	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term Jim Crow Laws Definition Set of Laws to regulate Black Liberty Term Act 101 Definition Louisiana Law of Segregation Term Ida B Wells Definition Precursor to Rosa Parks who stood up to whites Term Atlanta Compromise Definition Speech given by Booker T Washington Term General Custer Definition Famous Western Military Commander Term Dredging Definition To change the environment for mining by stripping/blowing up/ massive digging, etc... Term Frontier Definition For whites, border between savage and civilised lands / East and West lands Term Jim Crow Definition Song/Dance stereotyping Blacks/Black life Term Justice Brown Definition Wrote the opinion on the Plessy vs. Ferguson case Term Booker T Washington Definition 1st Headmaster of Tuskegee University Term Vocational Education Definition Providing simple, cheap, limited, skills education for Blacks (and poor whites) Term Sioux Definition Tribe of Native Americans who fought West-moving Whites Term Hydraulicking Definition Using water to blast the walls of hills and mines down for easier mining Term Octiroon Definition Person who was 1/8 Black Term Dubois Definition Famous writer born of 2 free parents Term Fort Laherty Definition Meeting between many Native American nations Term Conquest of the West Definition Limerick argued that the moving to the West was more of a: Term Literacy Test Definition One way that whites kept Blacks from voting was by giving them a: Term Justice Harlan Definition Gave the opinion on the Brown vs Board of Education et al. case Term Exodusters Definition Nickname for Westward travelers Term Malakoff Digging Co. Definition Largest mining company Term Citezens Commitee to Test the Railcar Act (CCTRA?) Definition African American organisation that recruited Plessy Term Battle of Wounded Knee Definition Last battle with the Native Americans Term Longhorns Definition Lean, long-ranging cattle of Texas Term Refridgerator Definition Invention of 1869 that reinvented the meat industry Term Disenfranchisement Definition Denial of rights to Blacks Term Public Service Definition Kind of service that is not allowed by law to discriminate against a particular race Term "Souls of Black Folk" Definition Most famous book written by WEB DuBois Term Jack Crab Definition Protagonist of the Movie "Little Big Man" Term Anti-Debris Association Definition Organisation formed to stop the dumping of waste from mines Term Racialism Definition Division of society by race Term Property Definition Right that can never be denied to citezens (yes, even Blacks) by law Term Definition Term "Southern Horrors" (optional ": Lynching In All It's Faces) Definition Book by that Photographer Lady (name unknown!) Term Benjamin Papp Definition African American who led Blacks to the West who claimed to be influenced by God Term Range Wars Definition A few fights over Western Lands by the settlers Term Daws Act Definition (an Act) Introduced Native Americans to the idea of Individual Land in order to assimilate them Term Definition