Chapter 9 history
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- Segregation
- forced separation oftentimes by race
- Ragtime
- A type of music featuring melodies with shifting accents over a steady, marching-band beat; originated among black musicians in the south and midwest in the 1880s
- Philanthropist
- a person who gives donations to worthy causes
- department store
- large retail establishment that carries a wide variety of goods and sells in large quantities
- NAACP
- Organization founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination, to oppose racism, and to gain civil rights for african americas.
- Vaudeville
- a type of inexpensive cariet show that first apperared in th e1870s, often consisting of comic sketches, song-and-dance routines, an magic acts
- Grandfather Clause
- Passage in a law that exempts a group of people from obeying th e law if they had met certain conditions beofre the law was passed.
- Assimilation
- Process by which people of one ciltire merge into and become part of another culture
- Literacy
- The ability to read and write
- Poll Tax
- A special fee that must be paid before a person can vote
- Niagara Movement
- Founded in 1905, a group of african Americsna that called for full civil liberties, an end to racial discrimination, an recogition of human brotherhood.
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- 1896 Supreme Court decision that held that segregation was legal as long as the separate facilities provided for blacks were equal to those provided to whites
- Jim Crow
- Satues begginging in the 1890s, that required segregation of public services by race
- Rual Free Delivery
- Beginning in 1896, free delivery offered by the U.S. Post Office to farm families in rural areas
- mail-order catalog
- Printed material advertising a wide range of goods that can be purchased by mail
- Yellow Journalism
- Sensational news coverage, emphasizing crime and scandal
- Lynching
- Murder of an accused person by a mob without a lawful trial