Assimilation the state of being assimilated people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family Integration The bringing of people of different racial or ethnic groups into unrestricted and equal association as in society or an organization Civilization the stage of human social development and organization that is considered Manifest Destiny Americans were destined by God to spread out and expand across the continent Indian Removal and American Process painting Imperialism a policy of extending a country s power and influence through diplomacy or most advanced military force What does it take for a group to become American When they are born in America When they let go of their culture and traditions and create a new American life for themselves What benefits come with a top position in the racial hierarchy Wealth health sexuality freedom education jobs are more accessible etc Changes in laws relating to interracial relationships Changes in media portrayals of and American attitudes toward interracial relationships Binary opposition seen as a fundamental organizer of human philosophy culture and language Civilization Americanization Where people from other countries come over to America and become civilized and become American and take up American ways and customs and leave their own behind Ethnicity a social group of people who identify with each other based on common ancestral cultural social or national experience Hybrid vigor cross breeding between whites and blacks Hyphenated Americans a term used for Americans who were of foreign birth or origin and who displayed an allegiance to a foreign country Loving v Virginia A white man and a black woman had married and were put in jail in Virginia for having an interracial relationship American melting pot The idea that all the cultures and races mix into one when they come to America Immigrants help make up the Melting pot Miscegenation the interbreeding of people considered to be of different racial types Nationality Based on where you are a citizen your nation of birth Othering view or treat a person or group of people as intrinsically different from and alien to oneself white black men women poor rich thin fat Race based on physical characteristics a social group that persons inside or outside the group have decided is important to single out as inferior or superior Racial hierarchy A system that creates the idea that certain races are more superior to other inferior races Whites vs blacks Whites vs any other race Symbolic ethnicity a love for and pride in a tradition that can be felt without having to be incorporated in everyday behavior White privilege refers to the set of societal privileges that white people benefit from beyond those commonly experienced by people of color in the same social political or economic spaces More likely to be wealthy educated healthy etc How did Native Americans live before contact with Europeans The Impact of European Disease on the Natives The differences between the Spanish French and English treatment of natives How the relationship between Natives and English settlers in Massachusetts changed over time What did Americans mean by civilization Andrew Jackson s connection to Indian Removal hypocritical The Differences of Opinions among Native and White Americans regarding Indian Removal Columbian Exchange brought food tools animals language women children religion slaves Culture Areas different Indian cultures around the world all share different cultures Cycle of Displacement natives and colonists peaceful settlers spread out conflict First Thanksgiving Five Civilized Tribes Cherokee Seminole Choctaw Muscogee Chickasaw Fur Trade King Philip s War First Indian war Metacom was the leader against the English Killed King Philip Manifest Destiny Americans are destined to expand across the continent Metis Had intermarriage with French traded furs and created military alliances Mississippian Culture Osceola leader in the Seminole community Pequot War Puritans burned the fence and everyone inside the fence down Pocahontas Powhaton chief s daughter who marries John Rolfe Powhatan Confederacy John Rolfe Marries Pocahontas and brings her back to England Second Seminole War US and Seminoles Three Sisters squash corn and beans Trail of Tears Wampanoag Indians inc Massassoit Wampanoag chief Metacom Massassoit s son Squanto indian that knew English and helped indians Worcester vs Georgia The trial against The development of slavery The differences between slavery in different places settings The conditions of slavery The ways slaves resisted their enslavement The rise of abolitionism The arguments for and against slavery including biblical ones Abolitionism s impact on Woman Suffrage American Colonization Society Wanted to send African American slaves back to Africa Chattel Slavery the idea that slave owners owned you your life your children and their offspring compared to owning cattle Civil Disobedience is the active professed refusal to obey certain laws demands and commands of a government or of an occupying international power Frederick Douglass a freed slave who became one of the leaders of the abolitionist movement Olaudah Equiano was also a former slave who bought his freedom and became apart of the abolition slave movement Garrisonian Abolitionism Extreme abolitionists who were determined about emancipation created by radical William Lloyd Garrison Gullah Culture Middle Passage Nat Turner s Rebellion Gathered a group of rebellious slaves and went and slaughtered plantation owners and their families Partus Sequitur Ventrem The status of the mother is the status of the children slave identity passed on to their kids Samual Sewall First American to become Abolitionist Salem Witch Trials judge in the 1700s wrote The Selling of Joseph was a Puritan Stono Rebellion large slave rebellion Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom s Cabin Slave auctions Sugar Trade Triangle Trade Eurpoeaons going to Africa taking slaves sending them to America Harriet Tubman Abolitionist who saved and attempted to save many slaves union spy used the underground railroad Uncle Tom s Cabin Underground Railroad Push Pull Factors of the antebellum ethnic groups Criticisms of the antebellum ethnic groups Unique qualities of the antebellum ethnic groups Life in America for the antebellum ethnic groups particularly employment opportunities Responses to the antebellum ethnic groups Chain
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