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John Marshall Harlan
Justice ________, a Kentuckian who had once owned slaves, was the only member of the Court to dissent.
Benjamin
________ Tillman, the white supremacist who was South Carolinas governor from 1890 to 1894, maintained that his states problems were caused by white farmers renting their land to "ignorant lazy negroes ..
Joseph G Mccoy
________ built a stockyard in Abilene, Kansas, barn, office building, livestock scales, hotel, and a bank.
Fort Laramie Treaty
The 1851 ________, in which the chiefs of the Plains Indians agreed to accept definite tribal borders and allow white emigrants to travel across their lands, worked for a while.
Arizona
Tombstone, ________, only thirty miles from the Mexican border, was a major silver mining site in the 1870s.
Jack Wilson
Wovoka (or ________), a Paiute in western Nevada, fell ill.
1890s
The buffalo disappeared for a variety of health and environmental reasons, notably a prolonged drought during the late 1880s into the ________ that severely reduced the grasslands upon which the animals depended.
Louisiana
In 1898, ________ inserted into its state constitution the "grandfather clause, "which allowed illiterate whites to vote if their fathers or grandfathers had been eligible to vote on January 1, 1867, when African Americans were still disenfranchised.
Tennessee
Born a slave in ________ in 1809, he escaped and made his way to Michigan.
Massachusetts
A native of ________, Du Bois first experienced racial prejudice as a student at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee.
Drudgery
________ and tragedy were as commonplace as adventure and success.
Cheyenne
Arapaho, ________, and Sioux war parties attacked scores of ranches and stagecoach stations.
buffalo soldiers
The ________ were mostly Civil War veterans from Louisiana and Kentucky.
1882
In ________, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, effectively banning further immigration from China.
Birmingham
At the southern end of the mountains, ________, Alabama, sprang up during the 1870s in large part because of the massive deposits of iron ore in the surrounding ridges, leading boosters to label the steelmaking city the "Pittsburgh of the South ..
America
In the west, the concept of manifest destiny was heavily important- the idea that it was God's will to have ________ grow and expand.
Virginia
Born a slave in ________, in 1856, the son of a black mother and a white father, Booker T. Washington at sixteen had enrolled at Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, one of several colleges for ex- slaves created during Reconstruction.
National Association
She helped found the ________ for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909 and worked for womens suffrage.
1877
In ________, Joseph, a Nez Perce chief, led some 650 of his people on a 1, 300- mile journey through Montana in hopes of reaching safety in Canada.
Abilene
________ flourished as the first successful Kansas cow town.The thriving cattle industry spurred rapid population growth.
Utah
________ entered the Union in 1896 (after the Mormons agreed to abandon the practice of polygamy), and Oklahoma in 1907; and in 1912 Arizona and New Mexico became the forty- seventh and forty- eighth contiguous states.
James Oliver
In 1868, ________, a Scottish immigrant living in Indiana, made a sturdy chilled- iron "sodbuster "plow that greatly eased the task of preparing land for planting.
Du Bois
________ had a flamboyant personality and a combative spirit.
Colonel John M Chivingtons
On November 29, 1864, ________ 700 militiamen attacked a camp of Cheyennes and Arapahoes along Sand Creek.
1875
In ________, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, a veteran Indian fighter driven by reckless ambition and courage, led 1, 000 soldiers in the Seventh Cavalry regiment into the Black Hills, where he announced the discovery of gold on French Creek near present- day Custer, South Dakota.
Wilmington insurrection
The ________ marked the first time in history that a lawfully elected municipal government had been overthrown in the United States.
Sand Creek Massacre
The ________ did as Soule had predicted: it ignited warfare that raged across the central plains for the next three years.
Comstock Lode
The ________ was found near Gold Hill, Nevada, on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevadas near the California border.
White supremacy
________ was violently imposed in the thriving coastal port of Wilmington, North Carolina, then the largest city in the state.
Sioux
In the summer of 1862, ________ warriors killed 644 white traders, settlers, government officials, and soldiers in the Minnesota Valley.
crop lien system
The ________ was a post- Civil War version of economic slavery for poor whites as well as for blacks.
Frederick Jackson Turner
________- ________, a young historian at the University of Wisconsin, announced his "frontier thesis "in 1893, in which he argued that more than slavery or any other single factor, "the existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development ..
fifteen months
The war lasted ________ and entailed fifteen battles in present- day Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, and Nebraska.
Senator Henry L Dawes
Sponsored by ________ of Massachusetts, the act divided tribal lands and "allotted "them to individuals, granting 160 acres to each head of a family and lesser amounts to others.
Henry Comstock
________, a Canadian- born fur trapper, gave the new discovery (actually made by other prospectors in 1859) his name.
Populist movement
The ________ would tie the South and West together in an effort to wrest control of the political system from Republicans in the Northeast and Midwest.
Mississippi Plan
The so- called ________, a series of state constitutional amendments in 1890, set the pattern of disfranchisement that nine more states would follow.
Textile Mills
________: The chief accomplishment of the New Souths effort to industrialize was a dramatic expansion of the regions textile industry, which produced thread and cotton bedding and clothing.
Comstock Lode
The ________, a seam of gold and silver more than fifty feet wide and thousands of feet deep, was the most profitable mine in history to that point.
Du Bois
________ stressed that African American leaders should adopt a strategy of "ceaseless agitation "directed at ensuring the right to vote and winning civil equality.
Du Bois
________ emerged at the turn of the century as Washingtons foremost rival.
