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What is the definition of a push factor?
Forced reason to leave country
What is the definition of a pull factor?
Reason for an immigrant to move to another country
What did Booker T. Washington believe?
African Americasn should focus on building on wealth, not Jim Crow laws
What did WEB Du Bois believe?
African americans should demand equal rights not earn it
How was the US able to gain control of Panama?
Backed rebels who gained independence from Columbia
What type of immigrants came to Angel Island?
Chinese
Who was involved in the Battle of the Little Bighorn?
Colonel Custer, 210 men and Crazy with 2,000 men
What was the Dawes Act?
Each Indian family given 160 acres of land and could not sell for 25 years
What type of immigrants came to Ellis Island?
Europeans
Who founded the Populist party?
Farmers
What was the Sand Creek Massacre?
Killing of Natives by Colorado militia in 1864
Who was Sitting Bull?
Leader of Lakota tribe
What is the definition of a melting pot?
Mix of different people from different backgrounds mixing together
What was Big Stick Diplomacy?
Peacefully negotiate but threaten with military
What is the definition of nativism?
People born in the US, used to be against immigrants
What were the push factors for 1800s?
Poverty and lack of jobs for them
What new territories did the US gain after the Spanish American War?
Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines
How did the US gain control of Hawaii?
Queen Liliuokalani was overthrown by US supported coup
What were the pull factors for the 1800s?
Religious freedom and access to work
What is the Grandfather Clause?
Rights only apply if your grandfather had them
What were the Jim Crow Laws?
Segregation and separate but equal
What did the Chinese Exclusion Act do?
Suspended the opportunity for Chinese to immigrate to the US.
What was Seward's Folly?
The purchase of Alaska from Russia
How did the Spanish American War begin?
US blames Spain for explosion in Havana
Who were the Rough Riders?
Volunteering group who went to Cuba, led by Roosevelt
