Chapter 18 Flashcards
Plessy v Ferguson p577 POL
a) a landmark United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of “separate but equal.”
b) allowed segregation
c) eventually overturned after civil rights movement
Young Men’s Christian Association p580 CUL
a) Spiritual organization meant to provide healthy activities for young workers in the cities.
b) helped provide good alternatives for young men
c) still a large organization today
Negro Leagues p581 CUL
a) professional baseball leagues comprising teams predominantly made up of African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latin Americans.
b) gave blacks an alternative to play baseball
c) eventually ended due to Jackie Robinson breaking color barrier in MLB
Sierra Club p583 CUL
a) oldest and largest grassroots environmental organization in the United States.
b) helped preserve the environment
c) has preserved the environment to the day
National Park Service p583 CUL
a) an agency of the United States federal government that manages all U.S. national parks, many American national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.
b) showed the focus of preserving the environment as well
c) helped preserve parks that became culture and tourist centers
National Audubon Society p583 CUL
a) a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to conservation
b) conserved the environment
c) joined the movement to preserve the environment
Comstock Act p585 POL
a) made it illegal to use the U.S. Postal Service to send any of the following things: erotica, contraceptives, abortifacients, sex toys
b) started to limit what could be ship
c) limited what the postal service could ship
liberal arts p587 CUL
a) are those subjects or skills that in classical antiquity were considered essential for a free person
b) helped culture
c) people use these as main parts of culture
Atlanta Compromise p587 POL
a) an agreement struck in 1895 between Booker T. Washington, president of the Tuskegee Institute, and other African-American leaders, and Southern white leaders.
b) helped make agreements between blacks and whites
c) showed that the two groups could cooperate
maternalism p589 CUL
a) a tendency to consider material possessions and physical comfort as more important than spiritual values.
b) people began to focus on things
c) an idea that is very prevalent today
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union p589 CUL
a) the first mass organization among women devoted to social reform with a program that “linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity.”
b) strengthened the faith of women
c) provided a strong group for women
National Association of Colored Women p591 CUL
a) organized to refute a letter written by James Jacks, the president of the Missouri Press Association, challenging the respectability of African-American women, and referring to them as thieves and prostitutes.
b) helped bond black women together
c) continued to show that black people would stand up for what they believe
National American Woman Suffrage Association p592 CUL
a) American women’s rights organization was established by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in May of 1890. This and other groups led to the nineteenth amendment: women’s suffrage.
b) helped fight for more women’s rights
c) caused the passing of 19th ammendment
feminism p592 CUL
a) focused on ending legal barriers to female rights, primarily suffrage, considered over after the passage of the 19th amendment
b) worked to give women more power
c) still a prevalent idea today
natural selection p594 CUL
a) the gradual process by which heritable biological traits become either more or less common in a population
b) provided reasoning for why things are the way they are
c) an idea that has been a main debating point recently