African Americans
1867, Ku Klux Klan (KKK) did what?
They murdered lots of African Americans and protested against them having rights.
Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 was an act that...
Broke up tribes and forced them to start American traditions.
When men went to work women stayed at home and the view of women being known for staying at home is called... what?
Cult of Domesticity
Farmers Season Cycle is... What?
Spring=planting, Summer=growing, Fall=harvesting, Winter=preparations for next cycle
Efforts to restrict immigration were groups like..?
1.labor unions, which feared that employers would use immigrants to depress wages and break strikes.
2. Nativist society, American Protective Association which was openly prejudiced against Roman Catholics
3. Social Darwinists, who viewed new immigrants as biologically inferior to English and Germanic stocks
The desire for African Americans to go to school made them...
Create their own schools
When Europeans came to America what did they bring to the Native Americans?
Disease, new traditions, food, etc. (Columbian Exchange)
When women were known for staying at home, some women went out of the ordinary and, did what?
They protested for womens rights!
1930s Dust Bowl came around and did what???
It killed all of their crops, so they didn't have food to eat or make money with, and it hurt their lives because it blew dust and filled peoples houses and killed some by breathing in too much dust!
The surge of immigration between 1830 and 1860 was...?
1. Development of inexpensive and relatively rapid ocean transportation
2. Famines and revolutions in Europe that drove people from homelands
3. Growing reputations of the U.S. as a country offering economic opportunities and political freedom
During WWII African Americans experienced...
Discrimination and segregation
When people were moving to the West what did they have to be cautious of?
American Indians!!!!
During the Depression family life changed by...
Not being able to afford a lot, and people became insecure of and the U.S. went into a economic crisis.
Became farmers!
More Europeans were being attracted to America by speculators offering cheap ____ in Great Lakes region and in valleys of Ohio Cumberland, and Mississippi rivers.
Land
What year did they get freedom????
1863
In 1830 what happened to the American Indians?
They were forced to leave their land and find a new place to live(Indian Removal Act)
Settlement Houses are what?
19th-century farmers focused on growing cash crops like?
Wheat and corn!
New immigrants:
Old Immigrants:
DEFINE THEM!!!
NEW IMM= from Southern and Eastern Europe, most were poor and illiterate who left for a better life
OLD IMM=from Northern and Western Europe, most had high literacy and occupational skills which made it easy to blend in with Americans.
What is it called when the African Americans were taken forcefully and forced to work under poor conditions?
Slavery
What was the American Indian involvement in WWII?
They helped fight!
1916-1918 were the best years for farmers because...?
1.Wartime demand in Europe
2. U.S. Governments wartime policy of guaranteeing a minimum price for wheat and corn. (When the war ended so did farm prosperity)
Negative forces driving Europeans to emigrate included...?
1. The poverty of displaced farmworkers driven from the land by political turmoil and mechanization of farm work.
2. Overcrowding and joblessness in cities as a result of the polulation boom
3. Religious persecution, particularly of Jews in eastern Europe.