Focused vocab A1

Match the following

• Reconstruction Act

• the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.

• Nativism

• movement of over 300,000 African American from the rural south into Northern cities between 1914 and 1920

• Black Codes

• Passed by the newly elected Republican Congress, required that Southern states both ratify the Fourteenth Amendment and write state constitutions guaranteeing freedmen the franchise before gaining readmission to the Union.

• Great Migration

• Laws denying most legal rights to newly freed slaves; passed by southern states following the Civil War

• Assimilation

• the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another. Ex: Native Americans with westerners

Match the following

• Jim Crow Laws

• production, distribution and utilization of a variety of tools, machinery and equipment for the development of agricultural land, planting, harvesting and primary processing

• Benevolent Societies

• A large open area beneath a ship's deck, often used to house traveling immigrants

• Agriculture Mechanization

• Limited rights of blacks. Literacy tests, grandfather clauses and poll taxes limited black voting rights

• Steerage

• aid organizations that offered immigrants help in cases of sickness, unemployment, or death

• Harlem Renaissance

• A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished

Match the following

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• An act that removed Indian land from tribal possesion, redivided it, and distributed it among individual Indian families. Designed to break tribal mentalities and promote individualism.

• Dawes Act

• Denied any additional Chinese laborers to enter the country while allowing students and merchants to immigrate.

• 14th Amendment

• Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws

• 15th Amendment

• Citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or precious condition of servitude

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• "separate but equal" doctrine supreme court upheld the constitutionality of jim crow laws