Native Americans:

Colonial Experience:

            disease, wars, loss of land

Indian Removal Policy/Trail of Tears

Great Plains Indians

Impact of the Railroad and the Buffalo

A Century of Dishonor

Dawes Act

Battle of Wounded Knee

Reservations

Wheeler Indian Reorganization Act

American Indian Movement (AIM)

 

Farmers:

Agricultural Revolution

Homestead Act

Problems After the Civil War:

            low prices

            lack of credit

            overproduction

Greenbacks/Free Silver

Granger Movement

Farmer’s Alliances

Populist Party

Farmers During WWI: Good

Farmers During the 20’s: Bad

Depression/Dust Bowl

Agricultural Adjustment Act

During WWII: Good

Since WWII: Government Support

Agribusiness

Trends in Agriculture

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Women:

Colonial Period: Inferior Status

Seneca Falls Convention 1848

Declaration of Rights and Sentiments

Suffragettes: Susan B. Anthony

19th Amendment

Feminist Movement

Equal Pay for Equal Work Laws

Title IX

 

African Americans:

Slavery 1607 to 1865

Reconstruction Experience:

            literacy tests/poll taxes

            sharecropping

            Black Codes

13, 14, 15 Amendments

Plessy v. Ferguson

Jim Crow Laws

1910’s: Ist Effort at Reform

            WEB DuBois

            Booker T. Washington

            Marcus Garvey

            Niagara Movement

            NAACP

WWII: Segregated Units in Army

Truman Desegregates the Armed Forces

Rosa Parks

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Brown v. Board of Education

Sit-ins and freedom rides

March on Washington 1963

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

1964 Civil Rights Act

1965 Voting Rights Act

24th Amendment

Long Hot Summers 1967 (Race Riots)

Black Panthers, SNCC, SCLC

affirmative action programs