CASE TEST REVIEW (Topics 1-8)

Led to the withdrawal of federal troops and abandonment of federal protection of African-American's civil and voting rights in the South

legalized state ordered segregation so long as the facilities for black people and white people were equal

Prominent black American, born into slavery, who believed that racism would end once blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society.

1st black person to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard, encouraged black people to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, helped create the NAACP

Laws designed to enforce segregation of black people from white people

Separation of people based on racial, ethnic, or other differences

W.E.B. Dubois' concept of an elite group of college educated African-Americans who would use their talents and position to eradicate segregation in American society

Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws

granted African American men the right to vote

Gave the U.S. a quicker passage to the Pacific from the Atlantic and vice versa.

Addition to the Monroe Doctrine asserting America's right to intervene in Latin American affairs

Policy developed by T.R where the the U.S. could intimidate countries without actually harming them and was the basis of U.S. imperialistic foreign policy.

27th president of the U.S.; he angered progressives by moving cautiously toward reforms; he lost Roosevelt's support and was defeated for a second term.

President Taft's policy of using the country's financial power to extend its international influence.

President Wilson's policy of condemning imperialism, spreading democracy, and promoting peace