Context Flashcards
1
Q
1876
A
Colorado became a U.S. state
2
Q
1888
A
Dick Wetherill’s discovery of the Cliff Palace
3
Q
1890
A
Wounded Knee Massacre - US troops kill 300 Sioux Indians, two thirds women and children
4
Q
1906
A
Mesa Verde national park established
5
Q
1915
A
Cather visited Mesa Verde
6
Q
1924 (2)
A
Johnson Immigration Act - limited number of immigrants allowed access to U.S. using a quota of national origins
Indian Citizenship Act - granted citizenship to all Native Americans, but didn’t give them the vote in some states until 1957. Used idea of the Vanishing American to suggest that the white American population was diminishing
7
Q
1925
A
The Professor’s House published
