Module 3

Question 1

Dawes act 1877

Answer 1

• Natives land was sold to white settelers

Question 2

Wounded Knee

Answer 2

• Gunshot went off and 300 were dead
  -Last big sustained armed Native resistance in the West

Question 3

Sitting Bull

Answer 3

The chief who united Sioux

Question 4

Woroka

Answer 4

Northern Paiute Prophet

Question 5

Ghost Dane

Answer 5

• Natives Religion
• They danced and practices the ghost dance

Question 6

What happend in the battle of little big horn

Answer 6

All of custers men were outnumberd and died

Question 7

John Chivington

Answer 7

• He attacked an unsuspecting village of indians
• Killed many

Question 8

Chief Joseph

Answer 8

• In revenge for custer he chases Nez Perce
• Led everyone to retreat t canada

Question 9

Why did protesting conflict with most aftican americans living in south

Answer 9

If they protested they would get lynched

Question 10

Who was Booker T, how did he suggest that AA’s respond to Jim Crow laws, why did whites like him

Answer 10

• He wanted to accomadate to the laws, and whites liked him becuase he didnt try to resist or fight back

Question 11

Who is W.E.B Doubis. How did he approch Seggregation and how did it differ fom Booker T

Answer 11

He wanted to fight aginst seggregation unlike Booker T who wanted to accomadate it. Remember the W.E.B was from north so he wouldnt get lynched. He co-founded the NAACP

Question 12

In what 3 ways did African Americans respond to seggregation

Answer 12

1) Accomadation (acceptance)
2) Confrontation (fighting)
3) Seperatism

Question 13

Grandfather Clause

Answer 13

If your Grandpa could vote prior to Jan 1st 1870 you didnt have to take literacy test, tax’s etc.

Question 14

Mississippi plan and how it was used

Answer 14

• Took away blacks right to vote
  -15th ammendment loophole

Question 15

15th ammendment

Answer 15

• Garunteed citicenship
  -Loophole:literacy test and Tax’s

Question 16

How did court justify Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer 16

By the 14th Ammendment
- Had no inferiorty of AA’s

Question 17

One drop rule

Answer 17

If you had one drop of AA blood in you you were considerd black no matter how white you looked

Question 18

Homer Plessy

Answer 18

• Activist
• Arrested for sitting in Lousiana railroad cart designed for whited

Question 19

How did the South get around the 13th Amendment? What clause did they use?

Answer 19

• You cant have slavery W/O CRIME
• So it was still legal as punishment

Question 20

Explain the causes behind the Plessy v. Ferguson case. What is the significance of the case?

Answer 20

• Legalized seggregation under seprerate but equal clause
  -Rise of seggregation

Question 21

Convict lease system

Answer 21

• Virtual Re-Enslavement
• Your a prisoner that gets leased out to places

Question 22

Define/compare/contrast Agency and Reservation.

Answer 22

An agency is a governmental organization responsible for overseeing and managing a specific activity or area of public interest. In contrast, a reservation is a designated area of land set aside for Native American tribes, often managed by an agency

Question 23

Why was Custer and the 7th Cavalry sent to the Black Hills?

Answer 23

Custer and the 7th Cavalry were sent to the Black Hills as part of a U.S. government expedition in 1874. The goal was to investigate reports of gold in the area, which ultimately led to a gold rush. tensions with the Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne who considered the Black Hills sacred land, eventually leading to the Battle of Little Bighorn.

Question 24

Give one example of Americans romanticizing the West?

Answer 24

through the iconic image of the cowboy. This figure, portrayed as rugged, independent, and brave, embodies the spirit of the frontier. Cowboys, as shown in countless movies and novels, lived a life of adventure and freedom, herding cattle and taming wild horses.