African Americans
What is segregation?
Separation of races.
Which Amendment was at the forefront of the United States V. Wong Kim Ark case?
14th Amendment
Most Native American children who attended boarding schools have passed down what generation to generation?
Trauma.
Where was Wong Kim Ark born?
America
Pull Factor
Factors that draw people to a new location.
What group did W.E.B. Du Bois found in the early 1900s?
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement for Colored People)
What is the significance of the Wong Kim Ark case?
It establishes that anyone who is born in the United States is a citizen of the United States.
What are reservations?
A tract of land set aside for Native Americans.
Wong Kim Ark's parents were?
Immigrants (not born in the USA) & ineligible to becoming citizens.
Push Factor
Factors that drive people away from a place.
Even though Homer Plessy looked white, he was deemed as being categorized as a black man. Why was that?
One of his great grand parents was black.
What was the Court's justification for Jim Crow Laws being Constitutional?
Equal protection clause required only equal public facilities for the two races, not equal access to the same facilities.
The battles of Little Big Horn and Wounded Knee as well as many other battles, all were fought over what underlying reason?
Native American Rights, Land, and Oppression.
Which act was used to exclude an entire ethnicity group from immigrating to the United States?
The Chinese Exclusion Act
Immigrant
A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country.
What sort of work did Booker T. Washington encourage African Americans to do and why?
Carpentry, Farming, Mechanics because he believed in waiting for Civil Rights for the African American.
Which Court case overruled Plessy V. Ferguson?
Brown V. Board of Education Topeka, Kansas
Which was an effect of the Dawes Act?
Boarding Schools for Native American children to attend.
Why did the Irish choose the U.S. and is this a push or pull factor?
Pull Factor: Land, Better Living Conditions, Employment
Emigrant
A person who leaves their own country in order to settle in a new country permanently.
What is W.E.B. Du Bois’s main critique of Booker T. Washington’s approach to civil rights and education?
The disfranchisement of the Negro, Civil inferiority of the Negro, Withdrawal of aid from institutions for the higher education of the Negro.
Native American Boarding Schools were also ruled unconstitutional under Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansa. Why?
The Native American Boarding Schools were segregated.
Why was the Homestead Act a problem for Native Americans?
The act gave out free land to settlers in areas in which the Native Americans already lived on.
Why did the Irish leave and is this a push or pull factor?
Push Factor: Oppression, Famine, Poverty
Gilded Age
Extravagant wealth of the time and the terrible poverty that lies underneath