Civil Rights Act – History Exam
The key terms of History Exam include, Civil, Rights, Act, Reconstruction.
Reconstruction
This was the first phase of returning the Southern states to the Union(1863-1866) and was led by Lincoln and Johnson. Its goal was to reunite quickly and moderately.
Samuel Gompers
He was the founder and leader of the American Federation of Labor for 38 years and worked for higher wages for laborers and against socialist and communist presence within the movement.
Scalawag
This was a white southerner who supported northern Reconstruction policies after the Civil War.
Sharecropper
A person (usually former slave) who farmed a leased portion of land during the Reconstruction era. The planter shared a portion of the crop grown as payment for land, rent, and supplies. Often the farmer under agreement was taken advantage of by the land owner.
Sitting Bull
He was the Lakota Indian Chief who helped defeat General Custer in the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876, and whose arrest help to set off the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee.
Booker T. Washington
This was a U.S. educator and reformer. He became perhaps the most prominent African American leader of his time.
Civil Rights Act
Signed into law by President Johnson, this bill protected African Americans and women from job discrimination and any discrimination in public places.
Crazy Horse
This Lakota Sioux chief led a group of approximately 1,500 warriors to victory against George Armstrong Custer’s 7th Cavalry at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876.
George Custer
U.S. Cavalry General whose unwise and reckless conduct got him and over 200 soldier of the Seventh Cavalry killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn
Ida Tarbell
She was a leading muckracker who wrote the 1904 book The History of the Standard Oil Company.
Jane Addams
She was a founder of Hull House, a settlement house that helped immigrants of the late 19th century become acclimated to life in the United States, and was a pioneer in the field of social work.
Reconstruction
This was the first phase of returning the Southern states to the Union(1863-1866) and was led by Lincoln and Johnson. Its goal was to reunite quickly and moderately.
Samuel Gompers
He was the founder and leader of the American Federation of Labor for 38 years and worked for higher wages for laborers and against socialist and communist presence within the movement.
Scalawag
This was a white southerner who supported northern Reconstruction policies after the Civil War.
Sharecropper
A person (usually former slave) who farmed a leased portion of land during the Reconstruction era. The planter shared a portion of the crop grown as payment for land, rent, and supplies. Often the farmer under agreement was taken advantage of by the land owner.
Sitting Bull
He was the Lakota Indian Chief who helped defeat General Custer in the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876, and whose arrest help to set off the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee.