semester 1 exam

Question 1

what is steerage?

Answer 1

the cheapest accommodations on a steamship

Question 2

What is Ellis Island?

Answer 2

an island in the New York harbor that served as the processing center for many of the immigrants arriving from Europe.

Question 3

what is Angel island?

Answer 3

An island in California that served as the processing center for many immigrants arriving from Asia.

Question 4

What is nativism?

Answer 4

an extreme dislike of immigrants by native born people

Question 5

What is segregation?

Answer 5

separation of races

Question 6

What are Jim Crow Laws?

Answer 6

laws that enforced discrimination

Question 7

What is a poll tax?

Answer 7

All citizens of Mississippi were forced to pay a $2 when registering to vote

Question 8

what are lynchings?

Answer 8

hangings without proper court proceedings

Question 9

Who was Ida B. wells?

Answer 9

African American woman who launched a crusade against lynching

Question 10

Who was Booker T. Washington?

Answer 10

African American educator who proposed that black’s should concentrate on achieving economic goals rather than political ones.

Question 11

Who was WEB De Bois?

Answer 11

black activist who refused to give up civil rights. Particularly concerned about protecting voting rights.

Question 12

Who was Rosa Parks?

Answer 12

refused to give up her seat on the bus

Question 13

What was the NAACP?

Answer 13

national Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Question 14

What was “separate but equal”?

Answer 14

this made laws that segregated African americans permitted as long as equal facilities were provided for them

Question 15

What is de facto segregation?

Answer 15

segregation by custom and tradition (segregation by choice)

Question 16

What are sit ins?

Answer 16

a form of protest that attempted to desegregate restaurants by sitting at a lunch counter and refusing to leave until they got the service they desired.

Question 17

Who is Thurgood Marshall?

Answer 17

an African American attorney

Question 18

What is the SCLC?

Answer 18

Southern Christian Leadership Conference. set out to eliminate segregation

Question 19

What was the SNCC?

Answer 19

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Question 20

Who was James Meredith?

Answer 20

Black air force veteran who was not allowed in University of Mississippi

Question 21

what is a filibuster?

Answer 21

this occurs when a small group of senators take turns speaking and refuse to stop the debate and allow a bill to come to vote

Question 22

what is a cloture?

Answer 22

a motion that cuts off debate and forces a vote

Question 23

What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 do?

Answer 23

gave the federal government broad power to prevent racial discrimination in a number of areas

Question 24

what did the voting rights act of 1965 do?

Answer 24

authorized the US attorney general to send federal examiners to register qualified voters. Also suspended literacy tests

Question 25

what is racism?

Answer 25

prejudice or discrimination toward someone because of his or her race

Question 26

what is black power?

Answer 26

physical self defense or violence

Question 27

who was stokely carmichael?

Answer 27

leader of SNCC

Question 28

who was Malcolm X?

Answer 28

famous black muslim who became a symbol of the black power movement

Question 29

what were black panthers?

Answer 29

believed that a revolution was necessary in the US and they urged african americans to arm themselves and prepare to force whites to grant them equal rights

Question 30

what did the immigration act of 1965 do?

Answer 30

abolished the national origins quota system

Question 31

what are refugees?

Answer 31

someone leaving his country due to a well founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, or nationality

Question 32

what did the immigration reform and control act of 1986 do?

Answer 32

established penalties for employers who knowingly hire unauthorized immigrants

Question 33

what is amnesty?

Answer 33

the act of granting a pardon to a large group of people

Question 34

what did the illegal immigration reform and immigrant responsibility act of 1996 do?

Answer 34

required families sponsoring an immigrant to have an income above the poverty line. did other stuff too.