Politics
Civil war
Terms
Sources
Segregation
100
What pushed immigrants from Europe what drew them to the US?
Immigrants came to the United States looking for work and new economic opportunities. Industrial capitalism was the most important factor that drew immigrants to the United States between 1880 and 1920.
100
Explain differences between American North and South before the Civil war?
The North and South, divided by the Mason-Dixon Line (an imaginary line that divided the country into the North and South), had different views on slavery and economy. The North had an industrial economy, an economy focused on manufacturing, while the South had an agricultural economy, an economy focused on farming.
100
What defines a "plantation" & were they working?
The term plantation arose as settlements in the southern United States, originally linked with colonial expansion, came to revolve around the production of agriculture. The word plantation first appeared in English in the 15th century. Originally, the word “plantation” was a verb that meant “to plant.” However, what came to be known as plantations became the center of large-scale enslaved labor
100
What is a primary source? mention at least 3 different types of sources
Primary Sources are immediate, first-hand accounts of a topic, from people who had a direct connection with it. Primary sources can include:
-Texts of laws and other original documents.
-Newspaper reports, by reporters who witnessed an event or who quote people who did.
-Speeches, diaries, letters and interviews - what the people involved said or wrote.
-Original research.
-Datasets, survey data, such as census or economic statistics.
-Photographs, video, or audio that capture an event
100
What does "Segregation" mean?
Segregation is the action of separating people, historically on the basis of race and/or gender. Segregation implies the physical separation of people in everyday activities, in professional life, and in the exercise of civil rights.
200
What were the attitudes of Europeans towards natives?
Some Europeans imagined the Indigenous communities as an ideal primitive society, living freely in a simpler and more peaceful state than in Europe. Other Europeans also described them as barbaric, a term the Greeks and Romans used to describe people who did not speak their language or share their culture.
200
who was the presidents during the American civil war (1961-65)
Abraham Lincoln
200
What is Industrialism and what impact did it have on the American society?
Is a system that depends heavily on manufacturing goods, rather than farming or making things by hand. Industrialism is the economic system of a society that has transitioned away from an agrarian economy (mostly based on growing and selling crops) to one that relies on industry.
200
What is a secondary source?
Secondary Sources are one step removed from primary sources, though they often quote or otherwise use primary sources. They can cover the same topic, but add a layer of interpretation and analysis. Secondary sources can include:
-Most books about a topic.
-Analysis or interpretation of data.
-Scholarly or other articles about a topic, especially by people not directly involved.
-Documentaries (though they often include photos or video portions that can be considered primary sources).
200
What is Jim Crow laws?
Jim Crow was not enacted as a universal, written law of the land. Instead, a patchwork of state and local laws, codes, and agreements enforced segregation to different degrees and in different ways across the nation.
300
Explain what the "abolitionist movement" were about? Where did it start?
The abolitionist movement emerged in states like New York and Massachusetts. The leaders of the movement copied some of their strategies from British activists who had turned public opinion against the slave trade and slavery. From the early 1830s until the end of the Civil War in 1865. Abolitionists were a divided group, some called for an immediate end to slavery. If that were impossible, it was thought, then the North and South should part ways. Moderates believed that slavery should be phased out gradually, in order to ensure the economy of the Southern states would not collapse.
300
How did the Civil War affect women in both the North and South?
During the Civil War, however, American women turned their attention to the world outside the home. Thousands of women in the North and South joined volunteer brigades and signed up to work as nurses. It was the first time in American history that women played a significant role in a war effort.
300
Explain the term immigration and mention one or two Immigration Ports of America in 19th & 20th century
Is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not usual residents or where they do not possess nationality in order to settle as permanent residents.
Ellis Island & Angel Island where ports on the east and west coast of America which allowed or rejected immigrants throughout the world
300
Explain what is happening in this photo? & what kind of source is it?
Primary source
Immigrants from Europe on their way to Ellis Island
300
Explain how Jim Crow laws worked in American south?
In many towns and cities, ordinances designated white and black neighborhoods, while in others covenants and unwritten agreements among real estate interests maintained residential segregation. African Americans were denied the right to vote by onerous poll taxes, unfairly applied tests, and other unjust barriers. The signs we associate today with Jim Crow – "Whites Only," "Colored"– appeared at bus stations, water fountains and rest rooms, as well as at the entrances and exits to public buildings. Hotels, movie theaters, arenas, night clubs, restaurants, churches, hospitals, and schools were segregated, and interracial marriages outlawed. Segregation was not limited to African Americans, but often applied to other non-white Americans.
400
What is the "Chinese Exclusion Act." ? explain consequences for the Chinese community in America
1882, when Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act. This act was the first significant restriction on free immigration in U.S. history, and it excluded Chinese laborers from the country under penalty of imprisonment and deportation. It also made Chinese immigrants permanent aliens by excluding them from U.S. citizenship. Chinese immigrants in the U.S. now had little chance of ever reuniting with their families, or of starting families in their new home.
Later, the 1924 Immigration Act would go even further, excluding all classes of Chinese immigrants and extending restrictions to immigrants from other Asian countries. Until these restrictions were relaxed in the middle of the twentieth century, Chinese immigrants were forced to live a life apart, and to build a society in which they could survive on their own.
400
Did black American men fight in the Civil War?
In 1862, President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation opened the door for African Americans to enlist in the Union Army. Although many had wanted to join the war effort earlier, they were prohibited from enlisting by a federal law dating back to 1792. President Lincoln had also feared that if he authorized their recruitment, border states would secede from the Union. By the end of the war, approximately 180,000 African-American soldiers had joined the fight.
400
What were the "American Colonies" known as? Mention at least two colonies
The Thirteen Colonies in their traditional groupings were: the New England Colonies (New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut); the Middle Colonies (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware); and the Southern Colonies (Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia).
400
Explain this photo? where is it from and which year? What does it tell us?
Minnesota, 1895 - logging wood
Immigrants settlements & exploitation of the land
400
Consequences of the segregated American south resulted in the "Great Migration" what does that mean?
The Great Migration (or the Black Migration), was the movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970. It was caused by poor economic and social conditions due to prevalent racial segregation and discrimination in the Southern states where Jim Crow laws were upheld. In particular, continued lynchings motivated a portion of the migrants, as African Americans searched for social reprieve. The historic change brought by the migration was amplified because the migrants, for the most part, moved to the then-largest cities in the United States (New York City, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Washington, D.C.) at a time when those cities had a central cultural, social, political, and economic influence over the United States; there, African-Americans established culturally influential communities of their own.
500
What is the 13th amendment?
Section 1.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
With the adoption of the 13th Amendment, the United States found a final constitutional solution to the issue of slavery.
500
What does 13th,14th and 15th amendment say and which impact did it have in the American south?
All persons born or naturalized in the U.S. were citizens for the nation and no state could make or enforce any law that would abridge their rights of citizenship.
No state could deny any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.
No state could deny any person equal protection of the laws.
Finally, the 15th amendment, passed in 1869, outlawed the denial of voting rights due to race, color, or past servitude.
However, immediately after the Civil War ended, some states began imposing restrictions on the daily lives of African Americans, whether they were survivors of slavery or had always been free. By the end of the 19th century, laws or informal practices that required that African Americans be segregated from whites were often called Jim Crow practices, believed to be a reference to a minstrel-show song, "Jump Jim Crow."
500
Please explain what racism is?
the belief that different races possess distinct characteristics, abilities, or qualities, especially so as to distinguish them as inferior or superior to one another.
500
Explain this photo - why is it important? mention period of time and structure of the American south
Jim Crow laws, segregation of the society
500
What impact did the "Great Migration" have on America?
The greater economic and educational opportunities led to an explosion of artistic expression in music and literature. Migrants and their children created the Harlem Renaissance, changed the sound of the blues music that they brought north with them, desegregated sports, and became involved in politics.