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Principle of the Third Generation Interest

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Ethnic interest and awareness increase in the third-generation, among the grandchildren of immigrants

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Symbolic Ethnicity

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An ethnic identity that emphasizes concerns such as ethnic food or political issues rather than deeper ties to one's ethnic heritage.

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Largest Ancestral Group of European Americans

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Germans

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Respectable Bigotry

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social acceptance of prejudice against white-ethnics, when intolerance against non-white ethnics is deemed unacceptable

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Denomination

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A large, organized religion that is not officially linked to the state or government

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What Church has the largest membership in the US?

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Roman Catholic

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Civil Religion

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A set of sacred beliefs so commonly accepted by most people that it becomes part of the national culture

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Intelligent Design

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The belief that the work and plan of God is observable in nature, thus confirming his existence and continued role in creation

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Indian Removal Act of 1830

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Jackson's plan to have eastern Indian tribes relocated to west of Mississippi supposedly for their own good to preserve them from assimilation or violence- passed by Congress and gave $500,000 to the project- would clear 100 million acres of land

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Allotment Act of 1887

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bypassed by tribal leaders proposed to make individual landowners of tribal members

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Based on the principle of assimilation

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Indian Reorganization Act

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Indian Claims Commission

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Hear and settle all outstanding land claims that Native Americans brought against the gov't. Claims stemmed from broken treaties and seizures of Native American land.

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Termination Act of 1953

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Tribes terminated from federal aide/assistance. title to land handed over to native americans

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Employment Assistance Program

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Native American brain drain

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Laws defining social position of slaves was called what?

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Slave Codes

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For the slave population...

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Christianity said to obey owners

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What social institution were slaves legally allowed to participate in?

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Religious

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In what ways is African culture documented?

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Folklore, religion, language, and music

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Antislavery movement is also known as what?

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Abolition

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Thirteenth Amendment

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Abolished slavery

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Ebonics

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Dialect spoken by some African Americans.

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Jim Crow Laws

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State laws in the South that legalized segregation.

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Fifteenth Amendment

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1870 constitutional amendment that guaranteed voting rights regardless of race or previous condition of servitude

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Slavery Reparation

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Making amends for the injustices of slavery

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Booker T Washington

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\"Politics of accommodation\"

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Talented Tenth

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According to W. E. B. DuBois, the ten percent of the black population that had the talent to bring respect and equality to all blacks

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Formation of NAACP

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Niagara Movement led to what?

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Aftermath of WWI

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Led to extreme violence against blacks

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Truman

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Which president desegregated the army?

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\"Black power\"

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the belief that blacks should fight back if attacked. it urged blacks to achieve economic independence by starting and supporting their own business.

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Protestant

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Most African-Americans are of what faith?

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Afrocentric

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An orientation toward African or African American cultural standards, including beliefs and values, as the criteria for interpreting behaviors and attitudes.

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De facto segregation

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Segregation resulting from economic or social conditions or personal choice.

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See notes

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What factors lead to high unemployment among blacks?

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Gerrymandering

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Process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.

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Redlining

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A process by which banks draw lines on a map and refuse to lend money to purchase or improve property within the boundaries.

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Victim discounting

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process of reducing the seriousness of the crimes that injure people of lower status

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Zoning laws

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Generally passed by municipal governments, that control the kind and amount of development in an area

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Tracking

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Assigning students to specific educational programs and classes on the basis of test scores, previous grades, or perceived ability.

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Apartheid schools

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All-Black Schools

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Victimization surveys

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Annual attempts to measure crime rates by interviewing ordinary citizens who may or may not have been crime victims

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Differential justice

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Whites being dealt with more leniently than Blacks, whether at the time of arrest, indictment, conviction, sentencing, or parole.

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Wealth

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An inclusive term encompassing all a person's material assets, including land, stocks, and other types of property.

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Riff-raff theory

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Also called the rotten-apple theory; the belief that the riots of the 1960's were caused by discontented youths rather than by social and economic problems facing all African Americans

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Rising expectations

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the belief that better conditions will come soon. Rising expectations develop when institutional barriers begin to fall; if conditions do not change immediately, frustration builds, sometimes resulting in group violence

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Relative deprivation

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A perception by an individual that he or she is not doing well economically in comparison to others

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Civil disobedience

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A group's refusal to obey a law because they believe the law is immoral (as in protest against discrimination)

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De jure segregation

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Children assigned to school specifically to maintain racially separated schools

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Sundown towns

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communities where non-whites were systematically excluded from living

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Restrictive covenant

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A private contract or agreement that prevents minority group members from purchasing housing in the neighborhood

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White primary

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A state primary election that restricts voting to whites only; outlawed by the Supreme Court in 1944

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