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Unit 2 Vocab
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History
9th Grade
09/12/2013

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Booker T. Washington
pg 491
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A prominent African American educator who believed racism would end when blacks acquired useful labor skills
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W.E.B Du Bois
pg 491
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Founded Niagara Movement and was first African American to receive a doctorate in Harvard
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Joseph Pulitzer
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William Randolph Hearst
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Mark Twain
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Writer of "Huckleberry Fin" and "The adventures of Tom Sawyer"
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Charles A. Lindbergh
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First man to solo fly across the Atlantic there and back
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George Gershwin
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Georgia O'Keefe
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Sinclair Lewis
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F. Schott Fitzgerald
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Writer of "The Great Gtsby:
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Ernst Hemingway
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Zora Neale Hurston
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James Weldon Johnson
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Marcus Garvey
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Claude McKay
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Langston Hughes
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Paul Robeson
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Louis Armstrong
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Jazz trumpet player and inventor of scat singing
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Duke Ellington
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Bessie Smith
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The Beatles
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British Band, famous world wide
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Woodstock
pg R69
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A free music festival that attracted more than 400,000 young people to a farm in upstate New York in August 1969
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Urban Flight
pg R68
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A migration of people from cities to the surrounding suburbs
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Gentrification
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Proposition 187
pg R64
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a bill passed in California in1994 that ended all education and nonemergency health benefits to illegal immigtants
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Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Instiute
pg 491
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Founded by Booker T. Washington to equip African Americans with teaching diploma and useful skills
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rural free delivery (RFD)
pg R65
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the free government delivery of mail and packages to homes in rural areas begun in 1896
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Harlem Renaissance
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counterculture
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the culture of the young people who rejected the mainstream American society in the 1960's seeking to create and alternate society based on peace and love
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Niagara Movement
pg 491
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Founded by W.E.B Du Bois, which insisted blacks should seek a liberal arts education so that the community can have well educated leaders
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Haight-Ashbury
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Aschan School
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a group of early american artists who often painted realistic pictures of city life- such as tenement houses and homeless people-thus earning them their name
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