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nativism
- native born "true" americans and if you are not a "true" american you should leave or be kicked out. You can stay only if you prove your loyalty. -according to "true americans" immigrants were bad people, drunks, ruining morals and corrupting kids. -Xenophobia: hate or fear of foreign people -Immigration restriction league: called for cutting back number of immigrants allowed
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Jim crow laws
laws to keep slaves "under control", no marriage rights, no rights to your kids, can't write or read go to school so on
Poll Tax
-tax to vote that a lot of African American People weren't able to pay
Literacy Tests
-very rigid, people who graded were super biased,
Grandfather Clauses
-if your dad or grandparents couldn't vote you can't vote -
wounded knee
-was a reservation where some of the people their were doing the Cost Dance Ritual, a blatant rejection of the white ways. The army came, one person fired their gun, then everyone did and over 200 Sioux were killed
-was a classic N.A. massacre
after the government declared the west was theirs and settlers could come -
assimilation
is the process by which a person or a group's language and/or culture come to resemble those of another group.
