Séance 5 - Dates

Question 1

1492 - 1890

Answer 1

Decline in Native American population

Question 2

19th c.

Answer 2

• Cultural genocide
• assimilation policies

Question 3

1662

Answer 3

Slave codes in Virginia

Question 4

1793

Answer 4

Invention of Cotton Gin

Cotton growing more profitable for enslavers

Question 5

1865

Answer 5

Abolition of slavery

Question 6

Post-1865

Answer 6

• legal racism
• racial segregatin
• disfranchisement

Question 7

1964

Answer 7

Civil Rights act

Question 8

1965

Answer 8

Voting rights Act

Question 9

1848

Answer 9

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

ended the war between the United States and Mexico

Question 10

1867

Answer 10

Purchase of Alaska

Question 11

1898

Answer 11

Annexation of Hawaii

Question 12

1899-1913

Answer 12

Filipino American War

Question 13

1917

Answer 13

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

Question 14

1840s-1880s

Answer 14

Transitional phase

Irish Catholics, Germans, and Chinese

Question 15

1880s-1924

Answer 15

New Immigration

Southern and Eastern Europe, including Italians, Poles, and Russians

Question 16

1882

Answer 16

Chinese Exclusion Act

Question 17

1921 and 1924

Answer 17

Quota Laws

Limit the immigration of migrants into the United States

The quota provided immigration visas to two percent of the total number of people of each nationality in the United States as of the 1890 national census

Question 18

1965

Answer 18

Immigration and Nationality Act

Signed by Lyndon B Johnson

abolished quotas, opening the doors to “those who can contribute most to this country – to its growth, to its strength, to its spirit.” John F.