Housing covenants
contractual agreements prohibiting the purchase, lease, or occupation of property by a
group of people.
Segregation
setting someone or something apart from other people or things
Civil rights
the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality
Boycott
voluntarily stopping the use of buying or dealing w/ a person's organization or country
protest
Stoop labor
the physical labor associated w/ the cultivation or picking of crops in farm fields,
especially as performed by poorly paid, & unskilled workers
Reservoir
an article of lake where water is stored by constructing dams across rivers
Aqueduct
a large pipe or conduct for carrying water from a distant location.
Industrialization
a period of change for a human group from an agricultural society to an industrial
society
Mechanization
the process of doing work w/ machinery
Unions
workers in several industries wanted to promote safer working conditions & limit and
created unions to protest their good working conditions
Agribusiness
growing crops/ distribution/ processing- marketing/ retail sales
Manzanar
one of the relocation centers in California for the Japs.
Internment camp
a large detention center created for members of specific ethnic or religious groups
Migrant
someone who travels w/in a country
Immigrant
people who move from place to to another
United Farm Workers
a labor union created by merging of the agricultural workers organizing committee & the
National Farm Workers Association
Central Valley Project
this was used to store & provide water to C.A. central valley
McCone Commission
the group that investigated the Watt's Riots
Bracero program