Migration and Expansion
This term describes a condition that drives people away from their homeland, such as war or famine.
What is a push factor?
This term refers to the practice of depriving people, especially African Americans, of the right to vote after Reconstruction.
What is disenfranchisement?
This term describes the political policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
What is nativism?
The official end of Reconstruction in 1877 resulted in the removal of federal troops from the South and this consequence for African Americans.
What is the end of protection for African American rights?
Opportunities like jobs, land, or freedom that attract people to a new country are called this.
What is a pull factor?
These were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States after Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow laws?
Blaming a person or group for something, especially in times of crisis, is known by this term.
What is scapegoating?
This argument, proposed by historian Frederick Jackson Turner, claimed that American democracy was shaped by the settlement of the western frontier.
What is the Frontier Thesis?
This term refers to the unfair treatment of people based on their race, gender, or other characteristics.
What is discrimination?
Passed in 1882, this U.S. law was the first significant immigration restriction targeting a specific ethnic group.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?