Download Term 1: Historical and Social Contexts and more Quizzes Art in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Sharecropping DEFINITION 1 a farmer works on someone's land and vies them a portion of the crops TERM 2 Arizona SB 1070: Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act DEFINITION 2 required immigrants to carry around papers at all time; promoted racial profiling TERM 3 Reconstruction Amendments DEFINITION 3 13th: abolished slavery14th: gave blacks citizenship15th: gave black men right to vote TERM 4 Blind Pigs & Speakeasies DEFINITION 4 Blind Pigs: lower class drinking establishments located in apartments and poor neighborhoodsSpeakeasy: high class drinking establishments located in apartments and makeshift clubs TERM 5 Congressmen Stephen I. Cohen (D-Tenn) DEFINITION 5 created resolution to "apologize for slavery" TERM 6 De Facto Segregation vs De Jure Segregation DEFINITION 6 De Facto: notinstitutedby law, by factDe Jure: segregation by law TERM 7 Leo Frank DEFINITION 7 Leo Max Frank (April 17, 1884 - August 17, 1915) was a Jewish-American factory superintendent whose lynching in 1915 by a party of prominent citizens in Marietta, Georgia drew attention to antisemitism in the United States and led to the founding of the Anti-Defamation League. TERM 8 Political Disenfranchisement DEFINITION 8 thingssouthernersdid to keep blacks from voting (poll tax, literacy tests) TERM 9 American Protective Association DEFINITION 9 anti-catholic, opposed immigrants in particular with catholic beliefs TERM 10 Jose Antonio Vargas DEFINITION 10 Jose Antonio Vargas (born February 3, 1981) is a Filipino- American journalist living and working in the United States. He is an illegal immigrant and has recently come out with it TERM 21 DREAM Act DEFINITION 21 Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors)provide conditional permanent residency to certain illiterate alien students of good moral character who graduated from US High Schools TERM 22 Volstead Act/18th Amendment DEFINITION 22 national ban on intoxicating beverages; to regulate themanufacture, production, use and sale of high proof spirits no person shallmanufacture, sell, barter, import, export any intoxicating liquor except as authorized by this act TERM 23 Reconstruction Act of 1867 DEFINITION 23 divided the South into 5 military districts federal troops were placed here to protect the blacks TERM 24 Immigration Restriction League DEFINITION 24 The Immigration Restriction League, was founded in 1894 by people who opposed the influx of "undesirable immigrants" that were coming from southern and eastern Europe. TERM 25 Chinese Exclusion Act DEFINITION 25 suspendedchinese immigration TERM 26 Redeemers DEFINITION 26 represented the old planter class and new class of white men committed to state rights, racial exclusion, and economic development promoted: thrift, progress, industry, conservatism, little or no federal intervention in state affairs
