the progressive era

African Americans rights

________ were lost when states added polling taxes, or required literacy tests, and passed Jim Crow laws.

Education

________ and civil rights became the primary goals of African American leaders.

Nativism

treating a person differently simply because of what their native status means (they will be treated differently simply because they werent born here)

increase of industrial jobs

The ________ encouraged large numbers of European immigrants to settle in cities in the Northeast.

American nativism

________ along with prejudice and violence began to rise in the United States.

Social Darwinism

the idea of the survival of the fittest

The Grange, the Alliance, and the Populist Party

created by farmers to increase political power when huge surpluses drove down food prices

polling taxes, required literacy tests, and Jim Crow laws

states added these to decrese the rights of African Americans

Plessy v. Ferguson

upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine

Education and Civil Rights

the primary goals of African American leaders