Vocabulary | Technology, Cotton, and Mills | Jim Crow Laws | Migration | Great Depression and New Deal |
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What is textile?
Fabric or cloth.
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What is the expansion of the railroads?
A major development in transportation during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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What are Jim Crow laws?
Laws in the South that made segregation legal.
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What is the Great Migration?
The movement of African Americans from South Carolina to the North and Midwest.
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What is the Great Depression?
Caused jobs to be lost, banks to fail, and homes and farms to be lost.
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What is suffrage?
Having the right to vote.
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What is hydroelectric power?
The reason why textile mills were located along rivers.
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What is "separate but equal?"
The phrase that says it was fair to segregate blacks and whites so long as they had the same stuff.
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What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The cultural event in New York based around African American culture and freedom.
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What is the New Deal?
Programs to put people back to work.
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What is discrimination?
The act of treating one group of people differently than another group.
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What is the end of WWI?
Caused the price of cotton to fall because it was no longer needed for uniforms.
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What is the Grandfather Clause?
Allowed whites to vote in the South, even if they could not read, because their ancestors had voted.
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What is poverty, violence, segregation, discrimination, or inability to vote?
Two reasons that would "push" African Americans out of the South.
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Who is Franklin Roosevelt.
The president who created the New Deal programs.
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What is immigration?
To come INTO another country or region to live.
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What are goods and people?
Two things that the railroads were able to transport quickly.
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What is African American suffrage?
Limited by reading tests, poll taxes, and state laws.
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What is cotton?
The crop that caused cities to grow.
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What is WWII?
The event that ended the Great Depression.
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What is emigration?
To LEAVE a country or region to live elsewhere.
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What is lowered prices for cotton?
The result of increased supply of cotton as farmers grew more and more cotton.
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What is to enforce segregation and discrimination?
The purpose of the Jim Crow Laws.
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What are lots of jobs in textile mills?
The reason why lower class whites moved to the cities to work in the mills.
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What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
A New Deal program that hired men to work on outdoor projects such as building state parks and planting crops.
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