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US History Chap 7/8
Policies and the law
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Americanization | social campaign sponsored by government and concerned citizens to assimilate people into main culture |
| Plessy vs Ferguson (1896) | Court decision that “supported separate but equal”. Affirmed segregation. |
| Jim Crow laws | Laws in Southern and border states that supported separate but equal (although things were not equal) |
| Gentlemen’s Agreement | Japanese government agrees to limit emigration in return US agrees not to stop immigration from Japan all together |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | 1882 bans entry to most Chinese |