US history EOI – Flashcards
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Quannah parker
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He was a comanche chief during the late 1800s and a leader in the native american church
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Red cloud
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This Oglala Lakota (Sioux) chief led his people in resistance to the US army in the Montana and Wyoming territories from 1866 to 1868
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Chief Seattle
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He was the Duwamish chief who worked with white settlers in the Pacific Northwest during 1860s, urging cooperation as well as environmental responsibility.
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Chief Joseph
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He was the Nez Perce Indian chief who attempted to lead his people to freedom in Canada. Despite vowing to "fight no more forever", he was captured by the US army in 1877, just 40 miles from the Canadian border
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Nez Perce
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This Indian tribe, led by chief Joseph, attempted to flee to Canada rather than go to a reservation, though eventually failed in 1877
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Sioux
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This is the name give to the Native American ethnic group in the Great Plains, represented by such leaders as Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Red Cloud
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Reservation
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This is an area of land managed by Native American tribes, under the department of the interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs. Because Native American tribes have limited national sovereignty, laws on tribal lands vary from those of the surrounding area. After the Indian Wars in the 1800s many tribes were forced to live in such areas
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Dawes Act
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This 1887 law divided Indian tribal lands into family plots, but also required Indians to adopt "American ways.
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Booker T. Washington
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He was a US educator and reformer. He became perhaps the most prominent African American leader of his time; founder of Tuskegee Institute
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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He was a major African American civil rights leader in the late 19th century through the first half of the 20th century. He was an author, historian, and a co-founder of the NAACP in 1909
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Marcus Garvey
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This civil rights leader is best known for his role in the "Back-to-Africa" movement and "pan-Africanism"
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NAACP
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This is the oldest and largest US civil rights organization. Members of this have referred to it as The National Association.
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Civil Rights
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This term refers to the laws that protect citizens from undue or unwarranted government intrusion into their lives, either personal or as an organization
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Jim Crow Laws
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Laws requiring that facilities and accommodations, public and private, be segregated by race.
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Disfranchisement
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This term refers to the process of taking away the right to vote from people who would normally enjoy that right.
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Tuskegee University
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This is a private university in Alabama setup during Reconstruction to help freed slaves receive an education. It was originally led by Booker T. Washington.
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Atlanta compromise
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This was the classic statement I race relations by Booker T. Washington, made in a speech at the Atlanta Exposition (1895). He asserted that vocational education, which gave blacks a chance for economic security, was more valuable than social equality or political office.
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Segregation
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This is the separation of daily activities, such as eating in a restaurant, using water fountains, or riding the bus, that is based on (usually) racial makeup.
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"Up From Slavery"
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The 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington, which chronicled his rise from slavery to his roles as the founder of Tuskegee Institute and as a civil rights leader.
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Back to Africa
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This movement began in the late 19th century by prominent African-American activists and urged former slaves and descendants of slaves to return to their naive homeland.
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Pan Africa Movement
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This began as a 19th century effort to unite all of the countries of Africa and continued in to the 20th century
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United Negro Improvement Association
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Founded in the early 1920s, this was Marcus Garvey's black nationalist group; by the late 1920s he had established more than 700 chapters in 38 states.
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Niagra movement
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This was an organization of black intellectuals led by W.E.B Du Bois calling for full political, civil, and social rights for black Americans
