Midterm Exam

Free land given to settlers; 160 acres with stipulations for the owner to keep the land.

• Dawe's Act

• Chinese Immigration Act

• Homestead Act

• Morill Act

Idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs

• Checks and Balances

• Federalism

• New Deal

• Laissez Faire

founder of Hull House; a settlement house that strove to help immigrants assimilate into society

• Susan B. Anthony

• Jane Adams

• Ida B. Wells

• Eleanor Rooevelt

African American progressive who supported segregation and demanded that African American better themselves individually to achieve equality.

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Marcus Garvey

• Thurgood Marshall

1st black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard, encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, helped create NAACP in 1910

• Booker T. Washington

• Charles Lindbergh

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Upton Sinclaire

African American journalist. published statistics about lynching, urged African Americans to protest by refusing to ride streetcards or shop in white owned stores

• Ida B. Wells

• Booker T. Washington

• Marcus Garvey

• Eli Whitney

Any of the laws legalizing racial segregation of blacks and whites that were enacted in Southern states beginning in the 1880s and enforced through the 1950's

• black codes

• immigration laws

• Jim Crow Laws

• Civil Rights Laws

The states can constitutionally enact legislation requiring persons of different races to use "separate but equal" segregated facilities.

• Plessey v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Jim Crow Laws

• Sandford v. Debs

After World War I 1919-20s, when Harding was President, the US and Britain returned to isolatoinism. The US economy "boomed" but Europe continued to struggle. It was the calm before the bigger storm hit: World War II

• Remember the Maine

• Rugged individualism

• return to normalcy

• Harding for Prez

31st President of the United States, Republican candidate who assumed the presidency in March 1929 promising the American people prosperity and attempted to first deal with the Depression by trying to restore public faith in the community.

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Herbert Hoover

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Woodrow Wilson