19-3 and 19-4 Flashcards
(14 cards)
Suffrage Movement
The movement organized around gaining voting rights for women.
Prohibition
A total ban on the sale and consumption of alcohol.
Susan B. Anthony
Key leader of woman suffrage movement.
18th Amendment (1919)
Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages.
19th Amendment (1920)
Women gained the right to vote nationwide.
Temperance Movement
Campaign to limit or ban the use of alcoholic beverages.
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
A woman’s organization devoted to the prohibition movement.
lynching
Putting to death a person by the illegal action of a mob.
Anti-Semitism
Hostility to or prejudice against Jews.
prejudice
A negative attitude toward an entire category of people, often an ethnic or racial minority.
Jim Crow Laws
Limited rights of blacks. Literacy tests, grandfather clauses and poll taxes limited black voting rights.
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
Organization that was formed to help African Americans get political, social and economic equality.
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Placed a ban on all new immigrants from China.
Anti-Defamation League
Organization formed in 1913 to defend Jews against physical and verbal attacks and false statements.