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AMH2097 Final Exam
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History
Undergraduate 1
12/03/2011

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Term
1790
Definition

Naturalization Act of 1790

-banned anyone who wasn't white from becoming citizens

Term
1870s
Definition

Post civil war recession

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Thousands of public schools sprout up across south because of Freedman's Bureau

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67% were self-employed (1870)

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Roots phenomenon

-focus on a reclamation of black masculinity

 

Term
1882
Definition

Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

-cuts of chinese immigration into US until 1943

Term
1939-1945
Definition
WWII
Term
1943 - 1980
Definition

Second Wave of Chinese Immigration

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Magnuson Act of 1943 repeals Chinese Exclusion act of 1882

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Immigration Act of 1965

-allows 170,000 visas a year

Term
1980-Present
Definition

Chinese Third Wave Immigration

 

-1989: Tiananmen Square

 

 

Chinese Student Protection Act of 1992

-gave amnesty to chinese students who didn't want to go back to China

 

Term
1880s - 1920s
Definition

Progressive Era America (P.E.A)

-social, economic, political reform

-standardization

Other dates:

-1913: 16th amendment (income tax)

-1919:  18th amendment (Prohibition; repealed in 1933)

-1920: 19th amendment (Women's suffrage)

Term
1893
Definition

Chicago World Fair

 

Term
1840-1880s
Definition

Victorian Men

-"self-made men"

-self-control

Term
1910
Definition
only 1/3 self-employed
Term
1890-1930s
Definition

Very visible gay male culture

 

1910-1920: Rocky Twins; dressed as women for club act

 

sexuality fluid: 1890s-1920s

Sexuality rigid: 1920s-1940s

 

Term
Movies
Definition

Amistad: 1997

Glory: 1989

Malcolm X: 1992

 

Term
1861-1865
Definition
American Civil War
Term
1865-1877
Definition

Reconstruction Period

-13th, 14th, and 15th amendments (end of slavery, blacks could become citizens, black men could vote respectively)


1865-1869: Freedmen's Bureau

-Public education

 

1877: Compromise of 1877

Term
Hate Groups
Definition

KKK: 1860s

White League: 1874

Red shirts: 1875

 

Term
1876-1965
Definition

Jim Crow Era

-racial segregation

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1896:  Plessy vs Ferguson

-coins the phrase "seperate but equal"

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lynch mobs kills 5,000 people

-3,500 black

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1868-1963: W.E.B Du Bois

-founder of NAACP (1910)

 

Term
1860s
Definition
Black Codes
Term
1955
Definition
The Strange Career of Jim Crow is published
Term
1954
Definition
Brown vs Board of Education
Term
August 6, 1945
Definition
Hiroshima bomb
Term
1950s-1960s
Definition

Civil Rights Movement

 

1954: Brown vs Board

Dec 1955 - dec 1956:  Montgomery Bus Boycotts

1957: Little Rock Nine

1960: sit-ins

1961: freedom riders

1963-1964: birmingham campaign 

may 2, 1963: children's crusade

1964: Freedom Summer

 

1965: NFL Boycott N.O. & Bloody Sunday/Selma to Montgomery March & Voting rights act of 1965 & Malcolm X assassinated

 

april 4, 1968:  MLK assassinated & Black Power at 1968 Olympics

 

Term
1966-1982
Definition

Black Panther Party for Self-Defense

 

Term
1930
Definition
Nation of Islam founded in 1930
Term
1950
Definition
"negro" appears in census
Term
1675-1676
Definition
King Phillip's War
Term
1781
Definition
Zong
Term
1650-1860
Definition
Slave Trade
Term
1839-1841
Definition

Armistad

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US declares slave trade to be illegal

Term
1619-1680
Definition
The Age of Flexibility
Term
1820-1860
Definition
Selling of slaves
Term
1807
Definition
US pulls out from international slave trade
Term
1840-1860
Definition

1.6 million Irish immigrate

3rd and largest wave

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1840s: Potato famine

Term
1872
Definition
William M. Tweed; Irish, ran Tammany hall; large role in NYC politics
Term
19th century (immigration)
Definition

Peak of german immigration; 6 million.

1848: revolution in germany

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Dutch: 1820-1900

Scandinavian: Peaked in 1860s-1880s

 

Term
1914-1918
Definition
WWI
Term
1862
Definition
Homestead Act of 1862
Term
1880-1914
Definition

Italian immigrants; 4.5 million

-1920s: Sacco and Vanzetti

 

Term
1890-1917
Definition
Greeks immigrate
Term
1820-1880
Definition
First Wave Chinese Immigration
Term
1849
Definition

California Gold Rush of 1849

-becomes state in 1851

 

Term
1970s
Definition

American Indian Movement

1972:  BIA takeover

1973:  Wounded Knee Incident

1973-76: 170 people murdered per 100,000

 

Term
1890
Definition
Wounded Knee I
Term
2008
Definition
3.4 documented immigrates in Florida
Term
Philosophical Justification:  John Locke's Social Contract Theory
Definition

Populist

Liberals - Restrictionist

Term
Philosophical Justification: UN Declaration of Human Rights
Definition
Neoliberals - Open
Term
Philosophical Justification: Natural Rights of Movement
Definition
Libertarians
Term
Economy:  Mercantilist-Protectionism
Definition
Populist - Restrictionist
Term
Economy: supply & demand and capitalism will determine immigration
Definition
Liberals - Restrictionist
Term
Economy: David Ricardo - Gains from Trade
Definition

Neoliberals + Libertarians

Open Borders

Term
Political:  Protect against Terrorism
Definition
Populist
Term
Political:  conditional free migration
Definition
Liberals
Term
Political: Must Balance with welfare state
Definition
Neoliberals
Term
Political:  No Federal Documentation; passports
Definition
Libertarians
Term
Social:  Conservative, nativists
Definition
Populist
Term
Social: Choose the makeup of society
Definition
Liberals - Restrictionist
Term
Social:  Promotes multiculturalism
Definition
Neoliberals
Term
Social: Society's problems will be solved by supply/demand economics
Definition
Libertarians
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