1. Other Americans Seek Justice Progressives fought to advocate 1.) working-class rights 2.) _____________________ …but often neglected the rights of ____________________ African Americans - ____________________________ - Low-paying jobs - Refusal in renting homes in “_________________________________” - Jobless whites took out anger on blacks, as they could get away with it - 1890s = 1,000+ African Americans were ___________________: murdered by mobs Booker T. Washington – speaks for many African Americans & presses white & blacks to live in harmony. ___________: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, founded by W.E.B. Du Bois, promoting ____________for African Americans Thousands move to the West & Southwest U.S. 1910 = famine & revolution in Mexico, pushing them into the states Met with a lot of racism & prejudice Worked as field hands Build roads Dug irrigation ditches Factory workers Paid FAR less than white workers Denied skilled jobs (not even given the opportunity to succeed) Mexican Americans - Thousands move to the West & Southwest U.S. - __________= famine & revolution in Mexico, pushing them into the states -Met with a lot of ___________________- Worked as field hands - Build roads- Dug irrigation ditches-Factory workers - Paid FAR less than white workers - Denied _____________jobs (not even given the opportunity to succeed) - _______________: Mexican neighborhoods where language & culture is preserved, traditional festivals & memories of Mexico are shared. - __________________________= nation’s largest barrio - _________________: mutual immigrant aid groups who pooled money to buy insurance and pay for legal advice. - They also collected money for the sick and needy. Asian Americans - Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) sparked racism -Kept Chinese from settling in U.S. -Philipinno & Japanese workers came -Many come to Hawaii: sugar plantations -Very skilled in ___________, ____________ & ______________ -STILL -STILL – Asians denied skilled jobs and paid less than whites -Forced to attend ________________ schools -Barred from owning any ___________ in the U.S. -Japan was creeping up on the radar as building a VERY strong Navy -TR wanted to keep good ties with them, (no enemies) ___________________________: 1907 – agreement between the U.S. & Japan to limit Japanese immigration - TR would lift segregation in schools between _____________& Japanese -Japan would stop any more workers from going to the _________ -U.S. would allow Japanese women to join their husbands in country Native Americans BUT… Dawes Act (1877) divided reservation lands into family plots, where Indians were supposed to become farmers & assimilate with American life BUT… -Much of the land these Indians received was in-farmable -Many had no farming skills/ ________gatherers -Sold land at cheap prices to white pioneers -No _________, money, food, shelter Society of American Indians: group that worked for social justice and tried to push Native Americans into the American __________________ Writers Artists Christian ministers Lawyers Doctors Worked for social justice/ educate white Americans about Indian life The System: 1. Work patiently to move up in society 2. ______________________________ 3. Then they’d have the power to demand money