APUSH period 6

Booker T Washington

First African American to go to the white house and have a meal with the president that he “didn’t prepare”

He was more conservative and believed separate but equal facilities were ok

W.E.B DuBois

African American who believed separate but equal facilities weren’t truly equal

He was more liberal

Andrew Carnegie

Owner of Carnegie steel monopoly

Ida B Wells

Muck raker and American journalist

Chinese exclusion act

Prohibited immigration of Chinese laborers

Reflecting anti Chinese sentiments and protecting white workers jobs

Dawes severally act

Aimed to assimilate Native Americans

Allotted them individual plots of land

Plessy v. Ferguson

Upheld racial segregation under “separate but equal” doctrine