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28 Cards in this Set
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fraud |
dishonesty or cheating |
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political machine |
an unofficial government that exists alongside a real government |
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civil case |
a court case to settle an argument when no law has been broken |
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criminal case |
a court case involving a violation of the law |
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prejudice |
dislike of another ethnic group, gender, race, or religion |
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temperance |
avoiding intoxicating liquor |
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Jim Crow |
a common name for segregation laws, some of which forbade intermarriage and ordered business owners and public institutions to keep black and white patrons separated |
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Plessy v. Ferguson |
an 1896 Supreme Court case in which the court ruled that segregation (Jim Crow) laws were constitutional |
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segregation |
the practice of separating racial, ethnic, or religious groups from one another, especially in public places |
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lynching |
kidnapping and execution of a person by a mob |
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vigilante |
one who takes or advocates the taking of law enforcement into one's own hands |
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anti-Semitism |
hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group |
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NAACP |
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, an organization of blacks and whites formed to fight racial injustice |
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W.E.B. DuBois |
believed that academic education was more important that trade education. He thought Washington's emphasis on industrial education actually kept African-Americans trapped in lower social and economic classes by suggesting they were best suited to service occupations. |
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Boss Tweed |
a corrupt man who controlled New York City's political machine, Tammany Hall. |
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Thomas Nast |
known as the "Father of the American Cartoon," having created satirical art during the 19th century that critiqued slavery and crime. |
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Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) |
an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), |
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The Gilded Age |
the late 19th century, from the 1870s to about 1900. The term was coined by writer Mark Twain in The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873), which satirized an era of serious social problems masked by a thin gold gilding. |
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German and Irish |
the two largest groups of immigrants during the late nineteenth century |
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Why did immigrants come to the United States during the second half of the nineteenth century? |
to e scape political unrest, famine, lack of work, and religious persecution. |
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What difficulties did immigrants face in leaving their homes and making a new life in the United States? |
immigrants faced dirty, crowded conditions and sickness. Many did not speak English, so there was a language barrier when they reached the States. |
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Jacob Riis |
an immigrant from Denmark. He photographed immigrant life to make people aware of the problems immigrants faced. |
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Chinese Exclusion Act |
a law that restricted Chinese immigration into the United States. |
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Wyoming |
the first U.S. territory to grant women the right to vote and to hold office. |
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suffrage |
the right to vote. |
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Susan B. Anthony |
a reformer who fought for decades so American women could have the same rights as men. |
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Ida B. Wells |
a newspaperwoman who fought passionately for the protection of African Americans. |
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Booker T. Washington |
called for avoiding confrontation over segregation and instead putting more reliance on long-term educational and economic advancement in the black community. |