Who called for african americans to 'pull themselves up from their own bootstraps'?
Booker T. Washington
Whites accused Chinese workers on the west coast of what?
Taking ''white'' jobs
some african american leaders responded to segregation by?
educating themselves and writing pamphlets
W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington
Desagreed over whether achieving equality was the burden of the nation or of african americans
The chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Prohibited chinese laborers from entering the country
Unlike african american men women in the late 1800s
did not have the legal right to vote
What did Du Bois view as the key to ''everything''?
Protest
With which other reform leader did du bois most agree?
Ida B Wells
Which of the following occurred in 1898
Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota set maximum rates for shipping and grain storage
Which of the following occurred in 1848
Chinese Americans won protection of their citizenship
Which gilded age president was known for his integrity?
Grover Cleveland
After the civil war farmers debt
Increased as a result of falling crop prices
What event did the populist party suggest would raise crop prices
the coinage of free silver
Farmers opposed the gold standard because they claimed that it would do what
cause prices for their crops to decline
What event encouraged president arthur to pursue civil service reform
assassination of president garfield
The spoils system made political parties more powerful by
Filling important government positions with party supports
harvard graduate who criticized booker T Washington ideas
W.E.B Du bois
tool used to prevent african americans from voting by charging them money
poll taxes, literacy tests, and the grandfater clase
political group that demanded free silver and government ownership of railroads
Populist party
Democratic presidential candidate who supported free silver
William jennings Bryan
organizations that brought farmers together to form farm cooperatives
Soouthern farmers alliances
Republican winner of the 1896 presidential election
william mckinley
group of mexican americans who fought to protect land claims
las goras blancos
schoolteacher, jounalis and anti- lynching activist
Ida B. Wells
legislation meant to segregate blacks and whites
De facta segregation
founder of an organization that taught farmers new farming techniques
grange
Identify three magor problems faces by farmers after th cibil war.
-green backs are discontinued
-the conies act of 1873 allows only gold coins to be melted