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cotton gin
Eli Whitney invented this machine which revolotionized the way we seperate cotton.the the tottal amount of raw cotton doubled each decade after 1800. -
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abolitionism
the act of doing away with racail inequality -
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Segregation
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13 amendment
officialy ending the institotion of slavery unless its a punishment that he was convickted of -
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social change
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14th Amendment
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15th Amendment
the govt cant deny u.s citizens the right to vote based on their ethnicity -
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Booker T washington
Booker Taliaferro Washington was an African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States also THE- dominant leader in the African-American community. -
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Founded -
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Great Migration
unsatisfactoy with econimic oppertunities and harsh segrigation laws drove african americans out of the rurral south to the cities of the north for industrial work etc african americans began to build a new place for them selve in society taking part in economic ,social,and political challenges creating an urban black society -
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Harlem Renaissance
was a social ,cultural ,artistic movement for liberated african americans, which caused an influx of african americans with new identitys to flee to Harlem to pursue there talents during this time harlem with a very cultural place.people like Walter White and Langston Hughes are famouse for taking part in the harlem Renaissance and became famous for their work. -
19th Amendment
gave woman the right to vote -
welfare
(creation) a government progran put in place to help poor people and also helps people who dont have jobs. this program provides food shelter and helps pay for medical bills -
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WW2
a war were Great Britain ,France,and soviet Union and u.s ,china defeated Germany,italy,and japan -
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WW2
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W.E.B Du Bois
civil rights activist ,pan africanist ,sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar.first black man to gain a PHD from harvard -
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Browen vs Boared of edu
signifcance it put the Constitution on the side of racial equality greatest Supreme Court decisions of the 20th century.also sets the stage for black people as second class citizen
the Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional.segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and therefore was unconstitutional. -
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Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
african americans refused to ride city buses in montgomery this was known as the first largescale demonstration aganst segregation
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for the white man the boycott began the day of her court hearing and lasted 381 days -
christian leadership conference
a civil rights organization founded by MLK thheir goalo was to persue civil rights but in a non violent way -
SNCC
sncc is a notional civil rights organiztion formed by students the goal was to achieve political and economic equality for blacks -
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Black Power
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Affirmative action
JFK issuess affirmative actions which creates the Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity and makes sure that hiring and employment proceadures are free of racial bias. -
the Freedom riders
they were a group of black civil rights activist that took it apon them selfs to desegrigate on interstate bus terminals. the freedom riders were recruited by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) -
24th Amendment
legally ended pole tax.citizens in some states had to pay to vote in a national election -
civil righs act of 1964
legally ended segrigation in public places and banned employment discrimination of race, color, religion, sex or national origin,
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white flight
the fleeing of white poeple usualy middle class because of intergration -
voting rights act
its was made to make it easyer for African Americans to persue there right to vote under the 15 amendment -
Black Panthers EST
est by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale their goel was to make all man eaqual and make others more comfortable of the thought of black socity -
MLK
he was a paster a humanitarian and a african american civil rights activist he died on april 4th 1968 -
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roe vs wade
was a dicision by the u.s supreme court on the issue of abortion.the right to privacy under the process clause of the 14th amendment extended to womans womans right to have a abortion but must and coasides and balenced with the states to real interests in regulating abortions protecting prenatal life and protecting womans health