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13th Amendment
abolished slavery
15th Amendment
Forbidding any state from denying suffrage on the grounds of race, color, or pervious conditions of servitude
KKK
An American white supremacist terrorist hate group
Jim Crow Laws
State laws passed throughout the south to enforce racial segregation of public favoritism
Compromise of 1877
Democrats agreed to accept Hayes as the president and republicans agreed to remove US army troops from the south. This was significant because reconstruction ended
Plessy v. Ferguson
Supreme Court said segregation did not violate the 14th amendment if there were separate but equal facilities for whites and blacks
Booker T. Washington
The most famous African American leader during the late 1800’s who promoted vocational education
WEB DuBois
Convinced African Americans to stand up for their natural rights as they were most important and founded the (NAACP)
Exoduster
African Americans who migrated from the south to the west after the civil war
Homestead Act
A law that offered, at almost no cost, land plots of 160 acres to anyone willing to live on it for 5 years, build a home, and grow some crops
Battle of Little Bighorn
1876 battle in which the Sioux defeated U.S army troops
Dawes Act
Divided reservation land into private family
Billy the Kid
American outlaw boy and a gunman in the late 1800’s known for his violence behavior
Carlisle Indian Industrial School
It took the culture away from Indians