Chapter 17.2 pg. 668-675

Lost Cause

A romanticized view of slavery, the Old South, and the Confederacy that arose in the decades following the Civil War.

New Immigrants

A wave of newcomers from southern and eastern Europe, including many Jews, who became a majority among immigrants to America after 1890.

Immigration Restriction League

A political organization founded in 1894 that called for reducing immigration to the U.S. by requiring a literacy test for immigrants.

Chinese Exclusion Act

A law in 1882 that halted Chinese immigration to the U.S.

Tape v. Hurley

By the Californian Supreme Court in 1885 that ordered the city of San Francisco to admit Chinese students to public school. The state legislature responded by passing a law authorizing segregated education, and the city established a school for Chinese.

Yick Wo v. Hopkins

By the Californian Supreme Court in 1886, who ordered San Francisco to grant licenses to Chinese-operated laundries, which the city government had refused to do.