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15 Cards in this Set
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New South |
After the Civil War, some proposed to fix the southern devastation by creating a New South. They argued that the region must abandon the agricultural economy for industrialization and commercial development. |
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Sharecropping |
Sharecroppers offered their labor in exchange for a share of the crops. This system was corrupt and closely resembled slavery as landlords often didn't give tenants a fair share. |
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Redeemers |
Small groups of men that southerners look to for information. They were said to have saved the south from Yankee control and prevented their strictly rural economy from dominating the area. They promoted industry but also kept the mythic reverence of the south. |
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Jim Crow Laws |
Laws that mandated the separation of blacks and whites in public places. Epitomized racial tensions and the South's attempt to squander the Negro population once more. |
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Mississippi Plan |
A plan that originated in Mississippi, then went to seven more states, to disenfranchise blacks and poor whites. Required two year residence of the state, disqualified those who has been convicted, all taxes had to be paid before one could vote, and all voters had to be literate. |
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Ida Wells |
An outspoken African-American that had been born into slavery and cared for her four siblings after her parent's death. She was a journalist that tirelessly criticized Jim Crow laws, founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, working to end both racial and gender discrimination. |
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Plessy v. Ferguson |
The first court case that opposed southern discrimination laws. Homer Plessy refused to leave a whites only rail car and was convicted for violating the Louisiana law that African Americans had to ride in a car just for them. The court ruled that the segregation law was completely within the power of the state to execute. "Separate but equal". |
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Booker T. Washington |
He was the foremost black educator and founded the Tuskegee Institute. He argued the segregation was irrelevant as long as all races with working toward the goal of mutual progress. |
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W. E. B. DuBois |
A critic of Washington; well educated, the first African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard, he became a distinguished writer. Here abhorred Washington's accommodationist philosophy and opted for "ceaseless agitation" for civil rights. |
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Panning |
A method to get gold dust and nuggets out of a river. This was the technique used by the first miners in the West, the 49ers, before individual prospectors gave way to large mining companies. |
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George Custer |
A lieutenant colonel that led the Great Sioux War. Custer was victorious and compelled the Indians to give up their hunting grounds and goldfields. |
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Great Sioux War |
The largest military event since the Civil War; it was between the Sioux and Americans over hunting grounds. Chief Sitting Bull of the Indians but lost and his tribe was forced onto a reservation a very poor land. |
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Ghost Dance Movement |
Wovoka (Jack Wilson) dreamt he had gone to a spirit world in which he was told that a savior would rescue the Indians and restore their lands. They had to perform a ceremonial dance which alarmed the whites and caused federal action. |
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Dawes Severalty Act |
An act to Americanize Indians. It broke up tribe land to the head of each family, put the land in trust for 25 years, after which the owner won full title and became a US citizen. It weakened the Indians by breaking up reservations, plus their inexperience caused whites to swindle the land from them. |
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Range Wars |
Violent disputes between ranchers and farmers over land and water rights. Violence occurred between cattle herders and sheep herders, ranchers and farmers of different ethnic or religious practice, and small and large cattle ranchers. |
