Westward Expansion
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- Racial Segregation
- You can't sit with us.
- Why?
- Moving from farming areas to cities.
- No, get off of my property you don't belong here.
- Hi, I'm just moved from a city and I need help around the farm.
- Jim Crow Laws
- They can't do everything we do.
- You will be given certain things.
- WE DESERVE OUR RIGHTS!
- the systematic separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life.
- The Civil War
- As large farms and improved technology displaced the small farmer, a new demand grew for labor in the American economy.
- California Gold Rush
- We're going to be rich!
- from the post-Civil War era until 1968—were meant to marginalize African Americans by denying them the right to vote, hold jobs, get an education or other opportunities.
- Manifest Destiny
- after decades of simmering tensions between northern and southern states over slavery, states' rights and westward expansion.
- more than 300,000 people came to the territory during the Gold Rush.
- to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent.
- We're almost done.
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