General
African Community
Jewish Community
Irish Community
Latino & Chinese Community
100
Quakers in Germantown protested this early, but didn't make it illegal for members until 1776.
What is slavery?
100
Secret trails used to help fugitives escape from slavery
What is the Underground Railroad?
100
An amendment particularly important to Jewish immigrants
What is the first amendment
100
A shortage of food that causes many to starve
What is a famine?
100
A Latin American country whose people do not speak Spanish
What is...
200
Settling in a new country (spell it!)
What is immigration?
200
Bringing goods into a country
What is importation?
200
The first amendment
What is the right of religious freedom
200
Jobs many Irish did before they gained political power
What are laborers, domestics and unskilled laborers?
200
Have been American citizens since 1917
Who are Puerto Ricans?
300
A group whose members live in a specific area or have a common cultural or historical heritage.
What is a community?
300
Group of relatives who might live together
What is an extended family?
300
A systematic persecution of a religious or ethnic group
What is a pogrom (100 point bonus- give an example)
300
A household servant
What is a domestic?
300
The successful Chinatown business that caused many men to gather in the area and make them feel at home
What is a restaurant?
400
Used to be the part of a city where people of certain ethnicities were forced to live.
What is the ghetto?
400
the group of black people who were not enslaved
What is the "free black population"?
400
Any group not involved with a religion
What is nonsectarian?
400
To move from one country and settle in another (spell it!)
What is to emigrate?
400
At least two languages a Latino immigrant might speak
What are....
500
Accepting all religions
What is religious tolerance
500
Act that says that if a slave was born before 1780 they would always be a slave; if they are born after, they are a slave until age 28.
What is the Pennsylvania Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery?
500
Jewish people of Mediterranean descent
Who are Sephardic Jewish people?
500
Three jobs common for Irish immigrants after they gained political power
What are policemen, teachers and politicians?
500
At least one way Chinatown has changed since its beginnings (100 point bonus for three or more)
What is ...
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