| A | B |
|---|
| Jim Crow | Laws meant to enforce segregation in public places in the South |
| Racial Discrimination | Different treatment based on a person's race |
| Segregation | separation, especially of races |
| Lynching | Putting a person to death by mob action without using the law |
| Reservation | Land set aside by the U.S. government for Native American tribes |
| Assimilation | the process of blending into society |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | 1896 - a Supreme Court case in which they ruled that segregtion was legal. |
| Battle of Little Bighorn | 1876 - Sioux and Cheyenne wiped out an entire force of U.S. troops |
| Wounded Knee Massacre | 1890 - U.S. soldiers killed 300 unarmed Native Americans, this ended Native American resistance in the West |
| Dawes Act | 1887 - a law that divided up reservation land to individual owners |
