virginiagn_chs 5.3 vocab
5.3 vocab
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- Settlement house
- place where volunteers offered immigrants services such as English language and jobtraining courses
- lynching
- murder of an individual by a group or mob, outcome of discrimination of blacks
- Jim Crow laws
- laws that enforced segregation in southern states
- Ellis Island vs. Angel Island
- where immigrants came in vs. where newcomers from Asia came in
- political machine
- organization of professional politicians, made cities run better, but also very corrupt
- Social Gospel
- movement led by a group of liberal protestant progeressives in responese to social problems raised by rapid industrialization, urbanization, and increasing immigration of the Gilded Age
- nativism
- being a native born American, seeing immigrants as a threat
- Booker T. Washington
- African American educator and racial leader, urged blacks to ignore segregation for the time being and concentrate on learning farming and vocational skills instead of higher learning
- Plessy vs. Ferguson
- court case that said "separate but equal" did not violate the 14th amendment
- tenement
- rundown apartment buildings
- gold standard
- a dollar could be redeemed only for gold in the U.S. Treasury
- populism
- the People's Party, coaltion of Alliance members, farmers, labor leaders, and reformers
- Jane Addams
- American sociasl worker and activist, co-founder of Hull House which was the first settlement house, helped found AMerican Civil Liberties Union and won Nobel Peace Prize in 1931
- W.E.B. DuBois
- major African American scholar, early leader in 20th century African American protest movement, advocate of pan-Africanism, cofounded NAACP, wanted immediate rights for blacks
- tammany hall
- infamous political machine in NYC, run by Marcy Tweed, very corrupt, used his power to make himself and his friends very rich, put in jail for fraud