Konspekt USA history
Immigrants
Restore white rule
· Grandfather clauses
Tried to ban black people from voting
Introduced by Southern legislatures
Grandfather had to be in the Civil War
· Jim Crow laws
Black people were critizised for going to theatres, schools, restaurants, hotels etc.
By 1954 black people could ride buses and trains
Most of the Southern states still critizised African-Americans on buses or trains
Separate bus lines and parts in restorans
Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King
The Civil Rights Act
VII The 19th century
· Discovery of gold and gold mining
A number of gold rushes ( Klondike etc)
Places where people started to live
Importance- transportation of raw materials, important for industrialisation
· The construction of railroads (Union Pacific Railroad Co, Central Pacific Railroad Co)
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John Stevens
· Industrialisation (raw materials, effect on development of economy, main industries)