Civil Rights - Pt ii

Indian Removal Act

1830 - Forces all southeastern tribes to give up their homeland

Trail of Tears

About 125,000 Native Americans were forced to move to Oklahoma under horrible conditions (disease, hunger, no shelter) and about 25% died on the journey

Reservations

area of land reserved for Native American tribes with a treaty or executive order from fedral government

Treaties

A formal agreement between 2 countries (tribes were considered countries)

Sovereignty

Power to govern them self

Assimilation

Forcing people to erace their culture and adopt the culture of the majority

Chinese Exclusion Act

1882 - First US law that stopped immigration from a single nation

• racism and discrimination

• labor disputes

• political pressure

Detained

held against their will

Angel Island

Detention center where people from Asia were detained during the Chinese Exclusion Act

Internment Camps

Place Japanese americans were detained during WWII because the US was a war with Japan

Korematsu v. US

1944 - Supreme Court decision that it was okay for Japanese Americans to be put in internment camps

Annual Reminder

Took place outside Independence Hall on July 4th to remind people that the LGBTQ+ community don’t have equal rights

Barbra Gittings

• Mother of LGBTQ+ civil rights

• Ended LGBTQ+ classification as a mental illness

• lesbian-right magazine editor

• Made LGBTQ+ stories avaiable in libraries

American with Disabilities Act (ADA)

1990 - Made public amenities, education, transportaion, and employment more accessably. They also fight against discrimination towards people with daiabilities.

Capitol Crawl

Protest against the inacessability of architecture by demonstrating the day-to-day struggles and congress was taking too long passing the ADA. About 60 people, including an 8-year-old got out of mobility aids and crawled up the capitol steps. Soon after the ADA is passed.

Labor Union

When employes/workers join together to improve working conditions

Strike

Stop working to protest for better working conditions

Delores Huerta

labor union leader, civil rights activist, femmunist, architect of the Delano Grape Strike,

fought for less pesticides, toilets, better pay, health benefits, and unemployment benefits