Review Sheet For Midterm Exam 1 - HCC HIST 1302 - US History since 1877

Convict lease

provided prisoner labor to private parties, as a means of increasing government revenue and cutting the expenses of holding prisoners

sharecropping

a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on their portion of land

crop lien

a credit system that became widely used by cotton farmers in the United States in the South from the 1860s to the 1930s.

lynching

(of a mob) kill (someone), especially by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial.

segregation

the enforced separation of different racial groups in a country, community, or establishment.

Mississippi Plan

The adoption of the Mississippi Constitution of 1890, which created legal obstacles to voting, such as the poll tax and subjective literacy tests, The Grandfather clause: if your grandfather could vote before January 1, 1870, you were exempt from the literacy test

Plessy v. Ferguson

US Supreme Court decided in 1896. It upheld state racial segregation laws for public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal"

Ida B. Wells

Johnson case inspired her to investigate lynchings. Used newspaper accounts and found 70% involved no accusation of a crime. 1909 co-founds the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (N.A.A.C.P.) to fight for anti-lynching legislation.

Booker T. Washington

Ran the Tuskegee Institute Focused curriculum on manual labor “The Atlanta Compromise”

The Birth of a Nation

The film, based on the novel The Clansman, promoted the "Lost Cause" interpretation of the Civil War and Reconstruction, a narrative that had been dominant since the Compromise of 1877 and the rise of the Redeemers. It depicted:

portrayed Reconstruction as Chaos and The Ku Klux Klan as Heroes

Accommodation

Only by proving economic worth to the white community would the Black community gain true equality

"The

Atlanta Compromise"

Stay out of politics Pursue only vocational training Do not fight segregation

WEB DuBois

With 39 others forms the Niagara Movement, a precursor to N.A.A.C.P. 1909 - co-founds the National Association of Colored People with Ida B. Wells and the “radicals” of the Niagara Movement.

Confrontation

Accommodation “is capitulation to evil.” Ideas were the polar opposite of accommodation. “Talented Tenth” – the most exceptional in the Black community would lead the remainder “out of the darkness” as DuBois put it – vocational education was a farce.

Niagara Movement

a precursor to N.A.A.C.P. Ideas were the polar opposite of accommodation. “Talented Tenth” – the most exceptional in the Black community would lead the remainder “out of the darkness” as DuBois put it – vocational education was a farce.

"Talented Tenth"

the most exceptional in the Black community would lead the remainder “out of the darkness”

Laissez-faire

Populism

Progressivism

Comstock Act

Anthony Comstock

Chief Joseph

Concentration policy

Sand Creek massacre

Custer's Last Stand

Ghost Dance

Sitting Bull

Wounded Knee massacre

Dawes Act of 1887

Patrons of Husbandry/Grangers

Southern Farmers Alliance

Northwestern Farmers Alliance

Sub-treasury Plan

The Omaha Platform

William Jennings Bryan

CW Macune

"Cross of Gold" speech

"free silver"

Samuel Tilden

Rutherford B. Hayes

Compromise of 1877

election of 1896

Women's Christian

Temperance Union

William Randolph Hearst

Henry Ford

Dynamic Principle of Mass Production

"planned obsolescence

" cartel or pool

trust

holding company

Iron-law of wages

"new immigration"

Homestead Riot

Pullman Strike

Coxey's Army

American Federation of Labor

(((Samuel Gompers)))

"bread and butter" unionism

IWW

Eugene Debs.

Hawaii

Queen Liluokalani

USS Maine

DeLome letter

Open Door Policy

Alfred Thayer Mahan

The Influence of Sea Power Upon History

Anti-Imperialists

Teller Amendment

Samar

Major Littleton Waller

General Jacob Smith

Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

Platt Amendment

Panama Canal