Jim Crow
when someone is deprived of the right to vote
What is disenfranchisement
to become more like the people around you, giving up some part of your own culture
What is assimilation?
Driven by social, econo0mical, and political reasons
What was the westward expansion?
A shift of widespread use of machines and factories
What is industrialization?
A group that maintains political control of a city through bribery and intgimidation
What is a political machine?
To purposely kill a person by hanging them from a tree or extreme tourture
what is lynching?
particular things that make up a certain group of people, unique language, traditions, beliefs, and customs
What is culture?
The availability of more jobs and higher wages in another city or country,
What is a pull factor?
The period that caused the industrialization, immigration, and urbanization
What is the period after the civil war?
A gap in the law that enables people and groups to evade the laws stated purpose
What is a loop-hole?
laws created by white southerners to enforce racial segregation
what is Jim Crow?
examinations that were used historically to restrict voting, particularly in the United States to prevent African Americans and immigrants from registering
What is the Dawes Act?
forces people to leave their homes to find safety
What is a push factor?
Wealthy entrepreneurs who grew immensely after the civil war
Who were the Robber Barons?
A decentralized political and social movement that aims to highlight racism, discrimination and racial inequality
What is the Black Lives Matter Movement?
A case in which the Court held that state-mandated segregation laws did not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
What was Plessy vs. Ferguson
operated for nearly 30 years with a mission to “kill the Indian” to “save the Man.” This
What is the Carlyle Boarding School?
a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course
What is Laissez-faire?
A set minimum ages for employment, restrict hours and duties for minors, and prohibit hazardous jobs.
What is child labor laws?
Groups that come together to impactg change on a specific issue that is important to society
What is a reform Movement?
examinations that were used historically to restrict voting, particularly in the United States to prevent African Americans and immigrants from registering
What is a literacy test?
resulted to intergenerational trauma, cultural loss, and profound social and health problems.
What is the effects of assimilation?
The 19th-century belief that the United States was divinely destined to expand across the North American continent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
What is manifest destiny?
The railroad, completed in 1869, which connected the Eastern and Western coasts, significantly reducing travel time and enabling westward expansion.
What was the Transcontinental Railroads?
A struggle that resulted in the passage of the 19th Amendment in the United States in 1920, granting women the right to vote nationally.
What is the Womens Suffrragist?