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--ability to read and write
--For immigrants, learning to read and write was important to becoming an American. |
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---the process by which people of one culture become part of another culture
--through schooling, immigrant children learned about American cultural values, how to cook traditional American foods, and play American games like baseball. |
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--people who give donations to worthy causes
--some private women's colleges such as Vassar were established by philanthropists |
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| --a group of African Americasn that called for full civil liberties, an end to racial discrimination, and recognition of human brotherhood |
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--a type of inexpensive live theatrical performance
--consists of comic sketches, song-and-dance routines, and magic acts |
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--a type of newspaper reporting of stories that were sensational and filled with scandal, such as details of murders, vice, and scandal
--done to sell more newspapers
--referred to yellow ink used in comics |
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-- a type of music begun by black musicians in the South and Midwest
--Maple Leaf Rag is this type of music |
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--a special fee that must be paid before a person was permitted to vote
-- since many African Americans were not wealthy, the fee prevented many from voting |
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| --separation of people by race |
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--laws that required segregation or separation of people by race
--example is separate train cars, water fountains, and bathrooms for whites and African Americans
--name came from "Jump Jim Crow" minstrel show where a white man painted on a black face |
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| --a Supreme Court ruling that decided that segregation was legal as long as the separate facilites provided for African Americans was equal to those provided to whites. |
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--murder of an accused person by a mob without a lawful trial
--this was the worse case of violence against African Americans
--men often lynched for not showing respect for whites or being richer than them |
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| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) |
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| --an interracial organization begun to get rid of (abolish) segregation and discrimination |
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--an outspoken African American and leader of the Niagra Movement
--denounced all discrimination
--never accept inferiority or apologize to insult |
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--founded the National Negro Business League
--criticized for being silent on such issues as lynching |
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| rural free deliveries (RFD) |
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| --a free service from the post office that gave farm families access to big city goods |
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--large retail establishments (businesses/stores) that carried a wide variety of goods
--Macy's in New York was one of the first department stores |
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--printed materials advertising a wide range of goods
--examples are Sears catalog |
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