exam 1 part 2 Flashcards
The committee that put together this Atlanta exposition where they were showing off all these farming techniques in cotton why did they want Booker T Washington to come and give an address?
Asked a black person to come as joke.
What was Booker T Washington beliefs? / Did anyone care for his address? / Who didn’t agree with his belief?
The solid foundation is education. / As long as white people were still in charge no one cared/ WEB Debois
What case says any white individual has the right to reject service to a black person.
Plessy v Ferguson
what phrase was in Plessy vs Ferguson and what does it mean?/ How did the case originate?
“Separate but equal” which means it is legal in the United States to separate the two races if the facilities are equal in construction. / Homer Plessy wasn’t allowed on Ferguson railroad.
What are the qulifications put on black and minoritiy people to vote.
. Property Qualifications
What kind of events what happening across the United States?
Lynching events
What was the railroad called where the United States government wanted to link the eastern and western side of the United States?
transcontinental railroad
What is poll tax?
Where if you wanted to vote you had to pay.
What kind of laws were segregation, poll tax, property qualifications and literacy tests are part of?
Jim Crow laws
What is it called when blacks and whites away from each other?
segregation/Seperate but equal
Who was lynched in Dyersburg TN and became the largest lynching event in the state of Tennessee? / Why?
Lation Scott/ Lation Scott supposedly winked at a white girl.
What act is where you can purchase from the federal government 160 acres of land, but you had to stay on the land for 10 years?
Homestead act
what are literacy tests?
You had to take an exam to vote
Where did the two railroads end?
In Promontory Utah
What 2 railroads are competing to see who gets done first and can own the land and set whatever price they want?
The Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroad.
