Race Unit 1

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nationality

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belonging to a specific nation either by birth or nautralization
-citzenship
-nation of origin

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Race

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Based loosely on physical characteristics
-gained meaning in 1700

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Two people of the same race cannot be genetically different

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FALSE

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All people have 99.8% of the same genes

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True

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Idealogical Racism

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physical characteristics make one race superior/inferior
-this justified racism, slavery and genocide

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Defining who is colored

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one drop of colored blood makes someone colored

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Ethnicity

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Based on national origin/culture

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Culture

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-Language
-Religion
-Customs

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Ethno genesis

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beginning of an ethnicity, the start of being ethnically distinct

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American Melting Pot

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Assimilation Issues
-much is gained and lost in cultures mix
-melting pot is a partial mix

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Immigration

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Moving of people from one country to another

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Formative Wave

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Prior to 1830
-English/Spanish settlers

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First Wave

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1830-1870
Irish, German, Chinese

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Second Wave

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Southern/Eastern Europeans

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Final/Current Wave

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Post WWII
-Asians, Mexicans, Central/South Americans

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Voluntary Immigration

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left by choice, generations usually stay

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Movement of Forced labor Immigration

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slave immigration

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Contract Labor Immigration

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indentured servants
-Japanese and Chinese Labors, Braceros

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Movement of Displaced Persons Immigration

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Refugees

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Spanish push factors

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Reconquits (spanish Army)

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Colombian Exchange

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What the spanish brought to the US had a cultrual impact
-pants
-animals
-disease

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Imperial Competition, Age of Sail

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Colombians provided natural resources, land, gold
-Trade by boat made exchange easier
Naval Power: Both military and Mercantile

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Push/pull Factors for the English

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-Stratified Society
-Primogeniture: oldest son inherits everything
-Protestant reform
indentured servitude

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Pull Factors for Spanish

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Gold, land, conquest

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Ranoke, North Carolina 1587

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Outpost Phase
-Simply establish a presence there and attempt to make a profit

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Jamestown, Virginia 1607

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Extractive Phase
-Plans to extract as much wealth and riches from the new lands as possible

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Plymouth 1620 settlement phase

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actual establishment of permanent settlements for future growth

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Plymouth 1620-Pilgrims seperate from church

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Seperatists
Wapanogas tribe

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Massachusettes Bay 1630

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-Puritans
-Boston
-Salem

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Reasons for Conflict (European vs. European)

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-Mercantilism:trade, raw materals
-Prestige of Empire
-Religions Clash

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Reasons for Conflict (Indian vs. European)

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-Culture Clash
land use-new land was nomadic w/ no ownership, in egland everything was owned
-opposite gender roles
-Religion-indians were not christians and seen uncivilized

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Recolonization of Slavery

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Slavery was condoned in the bible
-considered it as a fact of life

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Before African Slaves (Native Americans)

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-didn't work out much b/c they knew the area and died from European disease

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Before Native American Slaves (intentured servants)

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-Payed for their journey by working
-became economic competitors after released
-became harder to attract

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Bacon's Rebellion

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-Virginia 1676
He didn't believe that the govt protected them from disease so he killed many whites and indians and burned jamestown

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benefits of black slaves

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-escape is harder
unfamiliar territory
immune to disease
speak diff language
diff color skin from owners
slavery is forever

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Slavery in the islands

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began in the carribean
sugar can be converted into rum
dutch and muslim were main slave traders
African slaves became 60% of population

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Slavery in North America

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worked in tobacco, rice and indigo fields

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North American Cash Crops

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Tobbaco, rice, indigo and cotton

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Middle Passage

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-Slave factories that held slaves until they were shipped to other countries
-Ships took 2-4 months and 10-20% died on journey

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1641

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Massachusettes is 1st state to legalize slavery

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1662

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Virginia law states that slavery is forever

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1705

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Virginia slave codes:slaves are property

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slave society

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south
-Fundamental to culture
-slavery was essential to maintain labor intensive crops

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Society with slaves

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North
-Slavery was present but not nescessary

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Cotton Kingdom

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Cotton gin made harvesting easier
in 1860 it was over 1/2 US exports

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Black belt

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area in south where the soil was good for farming, many blacks resided there

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conditions of slave life

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north vs. south
urban vs. rural
-types of agriculture had an affect on how hard the slave worked

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Task labor

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rice and sugar
-had a certian amount of work to do, when you were done u had the day to yourself

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Gang Labor

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tobacco and cotton
-keep working all day long

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Plantation life

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-gang labor was most common on large plantations
-overseers were brutal
-physical punishment, sexual control, mental abuse

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Slave Culture

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African American Ethnogenesis
-language, religion (made their own form of christianity and favored exodus)

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Slave resistance-individual

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violent, slave revolts
-acting dumb, being lazy

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slave resistance-organized

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underground railroad

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Slave Revolts

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Haiti began first wave-1780's
Gabriel's rebellion, Virginia- 1799
Denmark Valley, SC-1822
Nat Turner (heard voice of god)- VA 1831

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Henry David Thoreau

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Civil Disobedience

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Uncle Tom's cabin
-north started to see slavery as wrong

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Walt Whitman

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I sing the body electric

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Compromise of 1850

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Slavery was outlawed in DC, in front of all politicans, south was angry

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Kansas-Nebraska act 1852

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People in these states voted on whether slavery should be abolished
-others from the north and south moved to those states to vote

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Dred Scot vs Sanford

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slaves or former slaves were not protected by the constituion

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Harper's Ferry

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Attacked by John Brown to get arms to free the slaves

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French and Indian war

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Seven years war
France/Indians vs. Britain, colonists and iriquois confedecry

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American Revolutionary War

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1775-1783
-Eastern North America
-Great Britian, loyalists, Iriquois, vs US, France, Spain
-Scotts-Irish made up most of army

-Iriquois confedecary fell during the war

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Iriquois Confedecary

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Haudenosaunee-ppl of the long house
-6 nations combined

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Tecumseh's rebellion

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-"the prophet"
-had a dream that god came down and told him that the indians need to give up the white ways
-tecumseh followed the word of Tenskwatawa
-led to the battle of tippecanoe

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The Creek War

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red stick war
-fort mims
-indians attacked and killed 400 europeans

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Treaty of Forth Jackson

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-andrew jackson killed the creek renegades

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5 civilized tribes

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choctaw
creek
chickasaw
cherokee
seminole

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Indian Removal Act 1830

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gave president jackson authority to to negotiate treaties with native americans to trade land in east for land in west

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Worchester vs. Georgia

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cherokee's found gold in their area, europeans tried to come and take it. went to the supreme court, ruled in favor of the cherokee but Jackson would not approve of it

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Trail of tears

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describes Cherokee's journey west
20,000 went southeast

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seminoles

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went southeast

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Civil War Era-Homestead Act 1862

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created to help people settle in the west

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Civil War Era-Pacific Railway Act 1862

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gave funds to build a railroad out west
didnt get built until 8 yrs later
easier travel to get out west

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Grants Peace Policy

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-only president could make treaties
-indians saw this as dictating
-appointed quakers to oversee indians, quakers tried to convert them

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The Lakota War

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-gold was found in lakota territory, people began coming for gold
-George Armstrong Custer came in, he was a known indian killer so sitting bul gall and crazy horse came up with a plan to kill him--didn't work, tribe fled to Canada

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Wounded Knee Massacre

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Indians were forced to turn in Arms , and some refused
-open fire shot the indians

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Helen Hunt Jackson

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A century of dishonor
-wanted to assimilate native americans

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Daws Severality Act

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broke up land for indians by family, each got 160 acres-good intentions but they lost a lot of land

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Indian Schools

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Carsile Indian Industrial School-gave kids haircuts and americanized them

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Indian Reorganization Act of 1934

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attempted to undo the land division
gave indians their own government

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Irish stereotype

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superstisious
-drinkers and fighters

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Irish push

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kicked out by Queen Elizabeth
-plantation systems
-brutal supression by england

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Ulster Scotts

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Scottish and Irish clumped-came to america
-couldn't own land
-settled in Appalacahin Mountains