Migration and Civil Rights
This term refers to the political policy of favoring native-born Americans over immigrants.
What is nativism?
This period after the Civil War aimed to rebuild the South and integrate formerly enslaved African Americans into society.
What is Reconstruction?
This financial aid provided by the government to support businesses, agriculture, or industries is often used to encourage growth.
What is a subsidy?
This conflict from 1861 to 1865 was fought between the Union and Confederate states, largely over the issues of slavery and states' rights.
What is the Civil War?
This is the unjust treatment of people based on race, gender, or religion, often used to limit rights and opportunities.
What is discrimination?
This Black leader, known as the "Father of the Exodus," encouraged African Americans to migrate from the South to Kansas during the Black Exodus.
Who is Benjamin "Pap" Singleton?
This term refers to the intense focus on the interests of one’s own region or section of the country, particularly evident between the North and South leading up to the Civil War.
What is sectionalism?
These policies were designed to bring the Southern states back into the Union and protect the rights of newly freed African Americans, but were largely abandoned after 1877.
What are Reconstruction policies?
This term refers to efforts, especially after Reconstruction, to deprive African Americans of their voting rights through poll taxes and literacy tests.
What is disenfranchisement?
This movement during the late 19th century involved thousands of African Americans migrating to the West, seeking freedom from oppression in the South.
What is the Black Exodus?
This belief held that it was America’s divine right and destiny to expand across the entire North American continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This political, social, and economic tension between the North and South centered around slavery and states' rights and ultimately led to the Civil War.
What is sectionalism or slavery?
Opportunities like jobs, land, or freedom that attract people to a new country are called this.
What is a pull factor?
This term describes a negative condition that drives people away from their homeland, such as war or famine.
What is a push factor?