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Potpourri
100
this convention in 1847 was the first to call for women's suffrage
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
100
a term - the policies of forced separation of races that was legal in southern states
What is segregation?
100
Many immigrants in the late 1800s and early 1900s came from ________ Europe or ________ Europe
What is Eastern Europe or Southern Europe? (Poland, Romania, Italy, Greece)?
100
those living in poverty in the cities became known as the ________ ________
What is the urban poor?
100
women gained suffrage when the 19th Amendment was passed in this year
What is 1920?
200
this leader of the women's rights movement was honored with her own silver dollar coin in the 1980s
Who is Susan B Anthony?
200
these two amendments (passed at the end of the Civil War) said that there could be no denying of civil rights, including the right to vote, based on skin color
What is the 14th & 15th Amendments?
200
this was the major economic complaint that many Americans had against the immigrants
What is that they would take jobs (especially factory jobs) away from Americans?
200
this religious movement called for people to work through their churches to help the plight of the urban poor
What is the Social Gospel?
200
the horrible Supreme Court decision in the Plessy v Ferguson case said segregation was legal as long as there was this
What is "separate but equal" facilities for each race?
300
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony formed this women's organization in the 1860s
What is the NWSA - National Women's Suffrage Association?
300
unable to deny blacks the right to vote based on their color, southern states found ways to successfully deny blacks the right to vote by instituting these two requirements
What is a poll tax (had to pay to vote) and a literacy test (had to be able to read)?
300
a term - the name given to those Americans who especially opposed immigrants and fought for laws to limit immigration
What is nativists?
300
this organization was associated with the Social Gospel movement founded to help the plight of the urban poor
What is the YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association)?
300
in the years after the Civil War the NWSA and the AWSA had different opinions about how to go about gaining suffrage rights - the NWSA believed ________, while the AWSA believed ________
What is NWSA believed in fighting for a national amendment while the AWSA believed it was better to fight for voting rights state by state?
400
after a long fight, women finally earned the right to vote when this passed
What is the 19th Amendment?
400
blacks tried to fight against segregation by bringing several cases to ________
What is the Supreme Court?
400
some Americans did not like this religious fact about many of the immigrants in the late 1800s / early 1900s
What is many immigrants were Catholic?
400
Jane Adams and others established these places in poor neighborhoods in large cities across the nation - people would live and work full time here to help the needs of the urban poor
What are settlement houses?
400
this term applies to the laws passed by southern states that forced segregation of races (what the laws were called)
What is Jim Crow laws?
500
The National Women's Party believed that this was the best way to push Congress to pass suffrage rights
What is acts of civil disobedience?
500
the Supreme Court's decision in this infamous 1896 case determined that segregation was legal as long as there were "separate but EQUAL" facilities for each race
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
500
this is how industrialization, immigration, and urbanization are related (linked)
What is factories were built in/near cities - immigrants flocked to the cities to work in factories - cities grew quickly which is urbanization?
500
this book included stories and pictures that helped expose the problems of the urban poor to America
What is "How The Other Half Lives"?
500
this settlement house in Chicago was established by Jane Adams
What is Hull House?