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Seneca Falls Convention |
was gathering of women and men in 1848 in New York mill town of Seneca falls to address the rights of women in the United States |
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Compromise of 1850 |
a series of laws designed as a final solution to issue. Concession made to the north included the admission of California as a free state and the abolition of slave trading in Washington D.C |
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Populism |
is the philosophy concerned with the common sense needs of average people. Populism often finds expression as a reaction against perceived oppression of the average people by wealthy elite society. |
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Plessy vs Ferguson |
1890 Louisiana had passed law requiring separate train cars for blacks and whites. to challenge this law in 1892 Homer Plessy a man who had a black great grandparent and so was considered legally black in that state purchased a ticket in the white section and took his seat.upon informing the conductor that he was black he was told to move to the black car. he refused and was arrested. his case eventually elevated to the Supreme Court |
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