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1.  Type your answers in here, submit them when class is over.

2.  Copy this page into a Microsoft Word document so that you may be able to save

 your work if you do not finish.

3.  Print this page out and answer the questions on paper. 

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  African Americans began a new fight for social justice. 

  After the Civil

  War ended and Lincoln freed the slaves, Jim Crow laws continued

  segregation.  African Americans faced discrimination in both the north

  and the south. 

  Landlords often refused to rent homes in white areas and they were often

  limited to the poorest housing and worst jobs. 

  Two men stepped up and tried to fight to make a difference.

  Define Jim Crow Laws:

  Read about Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois. 

  Compare and contrast the two leaders here. 

  While Washington, DuBois, and others like George Washington Carver

  (who found many new uses for peanuts), succeeded, African Americans still struggled against

  groups like the Ku Klux Klan and lynching. 

  Use this site to research what lynching was like and what the KKK was.   

  Why did people resort to acts like lynching?     

  Other Minorities:

   Mexicans have been a part of American history for an extremely long time. 

   Why did many new immigrants come from Mexico at the turn of the century?

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  Asian Americans:

  The Chinese Exclusion Act limited Chinese from immigrating starting in 1882.

  This led to immigration coming from other countries. 

  Many Japanese came to the United States when the US began trading with Japan in the mid 1800's.

  Originally they moved to Hawaii, where they worked on the sugar plantations under rigid prejudice. 

   When Hawaii was added to the United States, many Japanese came to live on the mainland. 

    Some of their jobs were

    .

  While they contributed to our nation's growth, Japanese became targets of prejudice.

  Many people resented that they were taking American jobs, and people wanted them to be segregated

   from general society.  President Roosevelt disagreed with this and did not want to provoke a war

  with Japan by limiting all immigration, so he reached a "Gentleman's Agreement" with Japan. 

  What did this agreement do?

  Religious Minorities:

  Large numbers of Roman Catholics and Jews faced discrimination in the United States as well. 

  Many nativists persecuted  these people.  Anti-Catholic feelings were common and some teachers

  lectured against the Pope.  Therefore, many of the Catholics set up parochial schools,

  or schools sponsored by a church. 

  Some of the worst prejudice was toward Jewish people.  Hatred toward Jewish people is called anti-Semitism. 

  The most notorious case of anti-Semitism in the United States was in Georgia in 1913 toward Leo Frank. 

  What happened to Leo Frank?  

  Why is this called a "mystery without a mystery"?

   The Anti-Defamation League was established to fight anti-Semitism. 

   The National Advancement for the Association of Colored People NAACP was established to protect

   African Americans.  Why are organizations like this necessary?