Other Americans Seek Justice

1. Thousands move to the West & Southwest U.S. • 1910 = famine & revolution in Mexico, pushing them into the states • Met with a lot of racism & prejudice • Worked as field hands • Build roads • Dug irrigation ditches • Factory workers • Paid FAR less than white workers • Denied skilled jobs (not even given the opportunity to succeed) • African Americans • - ____________________________ • - Low-paying jobs • - Refusal in renting homes in “_________________________________” • - Jobless whites took out anger on blacks, as they could get away with it • - 1890s = 1,000+ African Americans were ___________________: murdered by mobs ___________: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, founded by W.E.B. Du Bois, promoting ____________for African Americans • Progressives fought to advocate • 1.) working-class rights • 2.) _____________________ • …but often neglected the rights of ____________________ Booker T. Washington – speaks for many African Americans & presses white & blacks to live in harmony. • The System: • 1. Work patiently to move up in society • 2. ______________________________ • 3. Then they’d have the power to demand money • Asian Americans • - Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) sparked racism • Kept Chinese from settling in U.S. • Philipinno & Japanese workers came • Many come to Hawaii: sugar plantations • Very skilled in ___________, ____________ & ______________ • STILL – Asians denied skilled jobs and paid less than whites • Forced to attend ________________ schools • Barred from owning any ___________ in the U.S. • Japan was creeping up on the radar as building a VERY strong Navy • TR wanted to keep good ties with them, (no enemies) Other Americans Seek Justice • Mexican Americans • - Thousands move to the West & Southwest U.S. • - __________= famine & revolution in Mexico, pushing them into the states • Met with a lot of ___________________ - Worked as field hands • - Build roads - Dug irrigation ditches -Factory workers • - Paid FAR less than white workers • - Denied _____________jobs (not even given the opportunity to succeed) ___________________________: 1907 – agreement between the U.S. & Japan to limit Japanese immigration • - _______________: Mexican neighborhoods where language & culture is preserved, traditional festivals & memories of Mexico are shared. • - __________________________= nation’s largest barrio • - _________________: mutual immigrant aid groups who pooled money to buy insurance and pay for legal advice. • - They also collected money for the sick and needy. • - TR would lift segregation in schools between _____________& Japanese • Japan would stop any more workers from going to the _________ • U.S. would allow Japanese women to join their husbands in country • Native Americans • Dawes Act (1877) divided reservation lands into family plots, where Indians were supposed to become farmers & assimilate with American life BUT… • Much of the land these Indians received was in-farmable • Many had no farming skills/ ________gatherers • Sold land at cheap prices to white pioneers • No _________, money, food, shelter • Society of American Indians: group that worked for social justice and tried to push Native Americans into the American __________________ • Writers Artists Christian ministers Lawyers Doctors • Worked for social justice/ educate white Americans about Indian life