Organize your essay, use specific examples, and incorporate materials from the readings and videos (if applicable).

The textbook to use would be “Give Me Liberty” Volume 2, 6th Edition. Here is the IBSN # if you can find it online (978-0-393-42874-2)

I have attached the links for the readings and sources that you could use in the files.

https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/report/
http://www.lynchingintexas.org/

https://francesperkinscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/From-the-Triangle-Fire-to-the-New-Deal.pdf
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/reconstruction-1918-virus.html#learning

SECTION 1. Short Answer: In a short paragraph (four to five sentences), identify and explain the
historical significance of FOUR of the following items (12.5 points each, 50 points total):

Andrew Johnson
The Transcontinental Railroad
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
The Gilded Age
1918 Influenza Pandemic
The “New South”
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Freedman’s Bureau
Muckrakers Hull House
Sand Creek Massacre
Homestead Act
Dawes Act
Andrew Carnegie

Section II: Essay: Answer the following question in essay form. Organize your essay, use specific
examples, and incorporate materials from the readings and videos (if applicable). Your essay must
be at least one and a half pages in length. (100 points):

Discuss how lynching and the advent of Jim Crow were used to reinforce white supremacy in the
late 19th and early 20th centuries and how African-Americans such as Ida B. Wells-Barnett,
Booker T. Washington, and W.E.B. Du Bois worked to challenge this system. What strategies
did they use and how successful were they in bringing national attention to the matter?

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