Migration and Immigration
This term refers to the belief that the interests of native-born citizens should be prioritized over those of immigrants.
What is nativism?
This unfair treatment of individuals based on characteristics such as race, gender, or religion was widespread in the U.S. post-Reconstruction.
What is discrimination?
This 19th-century belief was that Americans were destined by God to expand across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This era followed the Civil War and focused on rebuilding the South and integrating formerly enslaved people into society.
What is Reconstruction?
This 1854 law allowed settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether to allow slavery, leading to violent conflict.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Passed in 1882, this was the first major U.S. law restricting immigration based on race, targeting a specific ethnic group.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Southern states used literacy tests and poll taxes to deny African Americans the right to vote after the end of Reconstruction.
What is disenfranchisement?
This is the term for the land set aside by the U.S. government for Native American tribes during westward expansion.
What is a reservation?
This mass migration of African Americans from the South to Kansas was led by figures like Benjamin “Pap” Singleton during the late 19th century.
What is the Black Exodus?
This term describes loyalty to a region of the country over the nation as a whole, a major cause of the Civil War.
What is sectionalism?
This term describes blaming a person or group for larger societal problems, often seen in times of economic or social crisis.
What is scapegoating?
He was a leader who encouraged the migration of African Americans from the South to Kansas during the late 19th century.
Who is Benjamin "Pap" Singleton?
This 1887 law aimed to assimilate Native Americans by dividing tribal lands into individual family plots.
What is the Dawes Act?
This term describes the violent conflicts between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers in Kansas in the 1850s.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This war, fought from 1861 to 1865, was caused by tensions over slavery and states' rights.
What is the Civil War?
This is the central claim or argument in a historical analysis or essay.
What is a thesis or argument?
This term refers to understanding events in relation to larger trends or patterns in history.
What is broad historical context?
This approach encourages historians to step back from specific events and use additional sources to understand larger historical processes.
What is "zooming out" or using outside evidence?
Issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, this executive order declared that all enslaved people in Confederate states were to be freed.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
He was the 16th President of the United States, known for leading the country through the Civil War and issuing the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
A government payment to encourage economic activity, often given to railroads during westward expansion.
What is a subsidy?
This policy aimed to integrate Native Americans into American society by encouraging them to adopt European-American culture.
What is assimilation?
This Native American tribe was forced to flee after the U.S. government tried to relocate them to a reservation, famously led by Chief Joseph.
Who are the Nez Perce?
This 1854 law allowed settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether to allow slavery, leading to violent conflicts.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
During westward expansion, these people moved onto Native American lands, often displacing Indigenous peoples.
Who are white settlers?