New Cultures
These immigrants from western Europe settled in small ethnic communities within the United States in order to preserve their language and culture.
Who are the Irish and the Germans?
This secret society like made it their mission to exclude and torture people of color.
Who are the KKK?
This supreme court case upheld slavery in United States territories and denied the legality of black citizenship in America.
What is the Dred Scott v.s. Sandford?
Asian, African Americans, and white people sought new economic opportunities or religious refuge in this region of America.
What is the west?
Life in this area of the United States was more community-based, metropolitan, and egalitarian.
What is the North?
Families of this religion would usually send their children to parochial schools, which would preserve religious customs in education.
What are Catholics?
These targeted laws sought to separate colored culture from white culture.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This group of people who lived on reservations were not given the compensation promised to them by the government.
Who are Native Americans?
This book is about the homestead life out in the midwest featuring the importance of family and pioneer spirit.
What is Little House On The Prairie?
States in the north and south quickly started to change their values and beliefs in result of North Carolina doing this.
What is succeed?
These international groups of people often lived in small ethnic communities within the United States in order to find work or seek better living conditions.
What are migrants?
When marginalized cultures were forced to adopt the white standards.
What is acculturation?
The government altered these groups' cultures and ways of life which ended up raising questions about their status and legal rights.
Who are Native Americans and Hispanics?
Westward expansion, migration to and within the United States, and the ending of this cruel custom caused conflicts over American cultural identities and citizenship.
What is slavery?
Cultural differences between the north and south intensified this idea which made people loyal only to a specific section of their country.
What is sectionalism?
Out west these stereotypical jobs were the result of cultural influences.
What are cowboys, deputies, and miners?
Native-born protestants feared economic insecurity and touting the general superiority of Protestantism, formed this party.
What is the Know-Nothing Party?
Constitutional changes of the reconstruction period led to conflicts over new definitions of citizenship, particularly regarding the rights of these groups.
Who are African Americans, Women, and other marginalized groups?
This act convinced people to move westward in order to claim 160 acres of government surveyed land which led to the new western cowboy culture.
What is the Homestead Act?
Contrary to former cultural beliefs, the northerners became very anti-south and anti-slavery when this book about the inhumanities of slavery was published.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
An amendment to the U.S Constitution granting citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This movement was strongly anti-catholic and aimed at limiting immigrants' cultural influence and political and economic power.
What is the Nativist Movement?
This treaty was made between the federal government and the Sioux tribe in 1868. It established a specific area of land for the Sioux to pursue their customs.
What is the treaty of Fort Laramie?
A political movement that opposed the expansion of slavery into new territories.
What is the free soil movement?
Slavery influenced the economy of this region to be strictly agricultural.
What is the South?