History of the United States

sharecropping

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 prevented Chinese people from becoming U.S. citizens for 10 years. The purpose was to prevent the United States from being "overrun" by enormous numbers of Chinese laborers willing to work for much lower wages than less recent immigrants.

A corperation

The arguments made against giving women the right to vote before the world war were far and wide. Many of the arguments included that a woman's place was in the home, and that women were not knowledgeable enough to vote, because it was a man's world.

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Many people began moving to the West

They were allowed to have part of the final crop, hence the name sharecropping.

The African-Americans tried to escape from the South because the South had slave states. They tried to get to the North because those were free states.

Poll taxes and literacy tests

Both Women's Suffrage (early 20th century) and the Civil Rights Movement (mid-20th century) attempted to secure voting rights.

Debt peonage (wage slavery) is when an employer compels a worker to pay off a debt with work.