Reconstruction
Policies that prevent people from voting.
What is disenfranchisement?
Policy of giving up one's cultural traditions in order to accept a new one.
What is assimilation?
The term given to Chinese immigrants by American nativists.
What is the Yellow Peril?
What is urbanization?
The Constitutional Amendment that abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
What are black codes?
The Constitutional Amendment that granted women's suffrage.
What is the 19th Amendment?
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Provided education and services for the poor. Jane Addams opened the first in Chicago.
What are settlement houses?
Policy of legally segregating people based on race.
What is Jim Crow?
Allowed exemptions from poll taxes and literacy tests if the father or grandfather voted in 1866.
What is the grandfather clause?
What is nativism?
This period of time was known as Colonial Immigration. Provide the when, where, and why.
When is 1600s-1776; where is England, Scotland, Ireland, and Africa; why is political and religious freedom.
Multifamily buildings that were poorly maintained, creating slums.
What are tenements?
Constitutional Amendments that outlined citizenship requirements; gave citizenship to former slaves.
What is the 14th Amendment?
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
The treaty that ended the Mexican American war. The US gained land from Mexico.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This construction in the west resulted in the increase of population and required labor of many immigrants.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
This period is known as New Immigration. Provide the when, where, and why.
When is 1870-1924; where is Southern and Eastern Europe and Asia; why is political and religious freedom.
Cultural groups keep their distinctive characteristics and contribute to society in their own ways.
What is pluralism, or the salad bowl theory?
Supreme Court case that legalized Jim Crow laws, citing "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
Constitutional Amendment that outlined voting requirements, gave former MALE slaves the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
People from various cultures combine to create one American culture.
What is the melting pot theory?
Gained support from poor immigrants by providing help.
What are political machines?
The period of time known as Old Immigration. Provide the when, where, and why.
When is 1776-1860s; where is Northern and Western Europe; why is famine, revolution, and economics.