equality unit quiz (US history)

created March 31st 2025 f

Seneca Falls Convention (when/what was it)

• two day convention held in Seneca Falls NY

• talked about women’s rights and role in society

• involvement in the women’s rights movement and temperance movement

Results of the Seneca falls convention

The Seneca Falls convention is seen as the first major step toward women’s equality in U.S. History

A document, the “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions”, was written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and was signed by 68 women and 32 men

Elizabeth Cady Santon

prominent author on women’s rights, wrote three volumes on The History of Women’s Suffrage

Lucretia Mott

a Quaker, known for her rhetorical skill

Frederick Douglass

the famous escaped slave and abolitionist, also attended, he was the only African-American to attend the Seneca falls convention

Andrew Jackson

Indian Removal Act

Trail of Tears

Indian Territory (what is it today)

Allotment

Assimilation

Standing Rock Protest

Dakota Access Pipeline

a pipeline that was planned to go through a river above native American territory and had a lot of protest against. Was passed, then closed, then reopened.

revolutionary Era violent protest

• During the yrs building up to the american revolution, american colonist used various forms of violence to protest the policies of Great Britain to make their dissatisfaction known. 

• examples…

  a. Boston tea party

  b. taring and feathering

  c. boston massacre

John Brown

• white abolitionist (1800-1859)

• Brown was a radical but he believed in ending slavery by any means necessary even violence. 

• In 1856 during “bleeding kansas” violence broke out between anti slavery settlers and pro slavery settlers.

• Brown and his followers brutally killed 5 pro savery settlers what became known as the “Pottawatomie massacere”

U. of WI bombing (basic details)

• aug 24th 1970

• Sterling hall, another campus building housed the army mathematics research center, a military funded research center and think tank

• 4 students parked a van filled with explosives outside the building and detonated it

• 1 person killed, 3 severely injured 

• About 14 million in property damage to the surrounding buildings.

• 3 of the 4 were eventually arrested and served jail time and a 4th never got found

Great Migration

massive internal migration of African Americans from the South to the North and West between 1910 and 1970,

East STL riot (main causes, results, etc..)

• happened from May 28-July 2nd in 1917

• mass burning and destruction of black homes, business etc… in east STL

• occurred because white workers thought black workers were taking their jobs and they didn’t like it

• ended up with 13-100 people dead? reports are inconsistent

Japanese internment (basic info)

the forced evacuation of Japanese American people to internment camps across the United States in response to worry about Japanese espionage in the US during WW2

lasting impressions of Japanese internment camps

• Korematsu v. United States (1944) 

• Upheld the order,(they were like YEAH this is fine)  however it was officially repudiated in Trump v. Hawaii (2018) (the decided now they dont agree and gave the survivors money) 

• In civil liberties Act of 1988 US apologized to 60,000 survivors and paid each $20,000 in reparations 

Executive order 9066

the order for removing Japanese Americans and relocating them

Issei

Japanese Americans’ born in Japan

Nisei

Japanese American people of Japanese decent

Black Panther Party

• black power organization that stood for self defense

• formed in 1966 by Newton and Seale

• Ten Point Program

• introduced the free breakfast program as well as had free health clinchs

• at its height it had 2,000 members

• Newton was found guilty of manslaughter and served 2-15 years

cointelpro

counter intelligence program to watch political groups (including but not limited to the black panther party)

Muckraker

a name for early investigative journalists who “raked up the muck” and uncovered the bad stuff underneath and showed it to the public.

Jacob Riis

• exposed the miserable conditions of tenement housing

• wrote “How the Other Half Lives” in 1891 showing stories and photographs of the horrid tenement housing

• inspired reforms for housing like the Tenement Housing act of 1901

Upton Sinclair

• wrote “The Jungle” about the issues in meat processing facilities

• exposed the issues with sanitation, working conditions, moldy meats, rats, etc… in meat processing facilities

• key facilitator for the reforms

• Federal Meat Inspection act of 1906

• Pure food and drug act of 1906

Ida Tarbell

• exposed the immoral tactics used by Rockefeller in the oil business

• Rockefeller’s company was closed after the Sherman Antitrust act of 1911 was passed

• Rockefeller drove out rivals by making oil deals with the railroad companies for them to buy his stuff only

John Spargo

• exposed the atrocities of child labor in coal mines

• it was dangerous to health: causing cuts, bruises, crushed fingers, crushed kids

Ida. B. Wells

• exposed the consistent lynching of black people in the south

• advocated during various trials of lynched black men

Dorothea Dix

• observed and wanted to change the way mentally ill persons were treated

• advocated for more humane conditions in prisons

• helped make appeals to the government and institute mental asylums etc…

Nellie Bly

Ten Days in a Madhouse