Immigration/African American/Indian Crossword
Across
- 4. a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers
- 7. authorized the President of the United States to subdivide Native American tribal landholdings into allotments for Native American heads of families and individuals
- 8. also known as the Black Hills War, was a series of battles and negotiations between the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and the United States.
- 12. African American soldiers who mainly served on the Western frontier following the American Civil War
- 13. journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration.
- 14. the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
- 15. a clause exempting certain classes of people or things from the requirements of a piece of legislation affecting their previous rights, privileges, or practices.
Down
- 1. state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
- 2. a North American Indian religious cult, based on the performance of a ritual dance that would drive away white people and restore the traditional lands and way of life.
- 3. a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr, on the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois
- 5. an American anti-Catholic secret society established in 1887 by Protestants.
- 6. a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality
- 9. the influx of Catholic and Jewish immigrants from southern and eastern Europe
- 10. a 138-mile-long tributary of the Bighorn River in the United States in the states of Montana and Wyoming.
- 11. A member of a Native American people inhabiting the southwest United States and northern Mexico.