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US History Louisiana EOC Review Terms defined Correctly (Latest study Guide)
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US History Louisiana EOC Review Termsdefined Correctly (Latest study Guide)
ku klux klan - Correct Answer ✅a secret society of white
Southerners in the United States, later grew in the Northeast
and Midwest opposing immigrants, Jews and Catholics
exodusters - Correct Answer ✅African Americans who
moved from post reconstruction South to Kansas.
fourteenth amendment - Correct Answer ✅made "all
persons born or naturalized in the United States" citizens of
the country
fifteenth amendment - Correct Answer ✅The right of
citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or
abridged by the United States or by any State on account of
race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
sharecropping - Correct Answer ✅System in which
landowners leased a few acres of land to farmworkers in
return for a portion of their crops
,US History Louisiana EOC Review Terms
defined Correctly (Latest study Guide)
sharecroppers - Correct Answer ✅people who rent a plot of
land from another person, and farm it in exchange for a share
of the crop
George Custer - Correct Answer ✅United States general
who was killed along with all his command by the Sioux at
the battle of Little Bighorn (1839-1876)
49ers - Correct Answer ✅People who rushed to california in
1849 for gold.
national Grange of Patrons of Husbandry - Correct Answer
✅This organization better known as the Grange, was
organized in 1867 by Oliver H. Kelley; its objective was to
enhance the lives of isolated farmers through social,
educational, and fraternal activities; the Grangers gradually
raised their goals from individual self-improvement of the
farmer' collective plight
Interstate Commerce Commission - Correct Answer ✅a
former independent federal agency that supervised and set
,US History Louisiana EOC Review Terms
defined Correctly (Latest study Guide)
rates for carriers that transported goods and people between
states
Homestead Act of 1862 - Correct Answer ✅this allowed a
settler to acquire 160 acres by living on it for five years,
improving it and paying about $30
Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 - Correct Answer ✅dissolved
many tribes as legal entities, wiped out tribal ownership of
land, and set up individual Indian family heads with 160 free
acres. If the Indians behaved like "good white settlers" then
they would get full title to their holdings as well as
citizenship. The Dawes Act attempted to assimilate the
Indians with the white men. The Dawes Act remained the
basis of the government's official Indian policy until the Indian
Reorganization Act of 1934.
Plessy v. Ferguson - Correct Answer ✅A 1896 Supreme
Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so
long as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal
, US History Louisiana EOC Review Terms
defined Correctly (Latest study Guide)
Jim Crow laws - Correct Answer ✅Limited rights of blacks.
Literacy tests, grandfather clauses and poll taxes limited
black voting rights
Interstate Commerce Act - Correct Answer ✅Established
the ICC (Interstate Commerce Commission) - monitors the
business operation of carriers transporting goods and people
between states - created to regulate railroad prices
long drives - Correct Answer ✅A cattle drive in which Texas
ranchers drove herds of cattle north to be sold in northern
markets
Ghost Dance - Correct Answer ✅a religious dance of native
Americans looking for communication with the dead
grandfather clauses - Correct Answer ✅law that excused a
voter from literacy test if his grandfather had been eligible to
vote on Jan. 1 1867
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