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| 14390992255 | redeemers | Southerners who wanted to reverse any progress made by Reconstruction | 0 | |
| 14390992256 | new south | state budgets were reduced which resulted in the closing of public facilities and schools vagrancy laws and increased penalties for petty crimes resulted in mass incarceration companies competed for the cheap labor the prison system produced economic opportunities in the south were reserved for only a few--the south remained the poorest region in the nation one of the only successful manufacturing industries was still mill in Birmingham, AL economic opportunities limited for African Americans in south political representation for African-Americans declined after end of Reconstruction, but many remained politically active | 1 | |
| 14390992257 | disenfranchisement | Denial of the right to vote *fear of bi-racial collation led to the this movement between 1890-1906 every southern state enacted laws to eliminate the black vote poll tax literacy tests understanding the state constitution "grandfather clause" enacted in 6 southern states | 2 | |
| 14390993250 | Grandfather clause | allowed people to vote if their father or grandfather had voted before Reconstruction | 3 | |
| 14390993639 | Plessy v Ferguson | supreme court case that ruled "separate but equal" is constitutional under the 14th amendment doctrine of separate but equal in public facilities of all kinds in ruled constitutional allows Jim Crow laws to exist in south until the 1960s | 4 | |
| 14390993640 | separate but equal | Principle upheld in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) in which the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public facilities was legal. | 5 | |
| 14390993641 | lynching | putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law southerners insisted that violence against black males had to with the protection of "white womanhood" | 6 | |
| 14390994598 | Ida B.. Wells | anti-lynching campaign insists that violence against blacks in the south has to do more with economics and a shifting social structure than with the protection of white women | 7 | |
| 14390994599 | Immigration | between 1880 and 1920 23 million came into the U.S. Between 1900 and 1914 1 million came into US every year European immigration was 3/4 total California and southwestern states were Chinese, Japanese, Filipino and Mexican immigrants were high | 8 | |
| 14390994600 | Old Immigrants | Old: from Great Britain (United Kingdom, Scotland, Ireland), Scandinavia, and Germany most Protestant Use "whiteness" as cultural capital | 9 | |
| 14391045554 | New Immigrants | mostly Eastern and Southern Europe, 3 to 4 milion Italians, 2 million Russians and Polish Jews, 2 million Hungarians, and 5 million Slavs and others from eastern and southeastern Europe most Catholic and Jewish Different political beliefs | 10 | |
| 14390995414 | Immigration restriction league | wanted to reduce immigration and create literacy tests for immigrants | 11 | |
| 14391050249 | immigration restriction | response to increase in immigration "nativists" start to organize to restrict the rights of immigrants | 12 | |
| 14390995415 | Chinese Exclusion Act | (1882) Denied any additional Chinese laborers to enter the country while allowing students and merchants to immigrate. rallies around the country hosted by the "Know-Nothing" or Workingman's party encourage people to support Chinese exclusions Photo identification for Chinese 1909 | 13 | |
| 14391054117 | Page Act of 1875 | the first restrictive federal immigration law and prohibited the entry of immigrants considered "undesirable." | 14 | |
| 14390995849 | Booker T. Washington | advocated the idea of racial accommodation Prominent black American, born into slavery, who believed that racism would end once blacks acquired useful labor skills and proved their economic value to society, was head of the Tuskegee Institute in 1881. His book "Up from Slavery." | 15 | |
| 14390995850 | W.E.B. Dubois | advocated for the advancement of civil rights for African Americans Opposed Booker T. Washington. Wanted social and political integration as well as higher education for 10% of African Americans-what he called a "Talented Tenth". Founder of the Niagara Movement which led to the creation of the NAACP. | 16 |
