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Unit 8
Blacks/Women's Rights and the West
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History
10th Grade
04/07/2008

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Term
Jim Crow Laws
Definition
Set of Laws to regulate Black Liberty
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Act 101
Definition
Louisiana Law of Segregation
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Ida B Wells
Definition
Precursor to Rosa Parks who stood up to whites
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Atlanta Compromise
Definition
Speech given by Booker T Washington
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General Custer
Definition
Famous Western Military Commander
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Dredging
Definition
To change the environment for mining by stripping/blowing up/ massive digging, etc...
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Frontier
Definition
For whites, border between savage and civilised lands / East and West lands
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Jim Crow
Definition
Song/Dance stereotyping Blacks/Black life
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Justice Brown
Definition
Wrote the opinion on the Plessy vs. Ferguson case
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Booker T Washington
Definition
1st Headmaster of Tuskegee University
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Vocational Education
Definition
Providing simple, cheap, limited, skills education for Blacks (and poor whites)
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Sioux
Definition
Tribe of Native Americans who fought West-moving Whites
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Hydraulicking
Definition
Using water to blast the walls of hills and mines down for easier mining
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Octiroon
Definition
Person who was 1/8 Black
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Dubois
Definition
Famous writer born of 2 free parents
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Fort Laherty
Definition
Meeting between many Native American nations
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Conquest of the West
Definition
Limerick argued that the moving to the West was more of a:
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Literacy Test
Definition
One way that whites kept Blacks from voting was by giving them a:
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Justice Harlan
Definition
Gave the opinion on the Brown vs Board of Education et al. case
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Exodusters
Definition
Nickname for Westward travelers
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Malakoff Digging Co.
Definition
Largest mining company
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Citezens Commitee to Test the Railcar Act (CCTRA?)
Definition
African American organisation that recruited Plessy
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Battle of Wounded Knee
Definition
Last battle with the Native Americans
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Longhorns
Definition
Lean, long-ranging cattle of Texas
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Refridgerator
Definition
Invention of 1869 that reinvented the meat industry
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Disenfranchisement
Definition
Denial of rights to Blacks
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Public Service
Definition
Kind of service that is not allowed by law to discriminate against a particular race
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"Souls of Black Folk"
Definition
Most famous book written by WEB DuBois
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Jack Crab
Definition
Protagonist of the Movie "Little Big Man"
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Anti-Debris Association
Definition
Organisation formed to stop the dumping of waste from mines
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Racialism
Definition
Division of society by race
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Property
Definition
Right that can never be denied to citezens (yes, even Blacks) by law
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"Southern Horrors"

(optional ": Lynching In All It's Faces)

Definition
Book by that Photographer Lady (name unknown!)
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Benjamin Papp
Definition
African American who led Blacks to the West who claimed to be influenced by God
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Range Wars
Definition
A few fights over Western Lands by the settlers
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Daws Act
Definition
(an Act) Introduced Native Americans to the idea of Individual Land in order to assimilate them
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